Six blocks north of the commercial district, Hi Bug is the residential bluff where Red Lodge's coal-era merchants and mine managers built themselves wood-frame houses with deep porches between 1890 and 1915. The streets are quieter than Broadway and the houses are intact: Queen Anne turrets, Foursquare bays, the occasional Craftsman porch, all set on tree-lined gravel drives.
The walk takes about half an hour. The Carbon County Historical Society's small museum at 224 N. Broadway sells a self-guided tour leaflet that names the original residents — most were Welsh or Cornish, with a handful of Italian families who had risen out of the coal pits. Calvary Episcopal Church, on the south edge of the neighbourhood, is the architectural centrepiece.