Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana
Things to see in Helena, Butte & Southwest Montana
22 sights, museums, parks and places worth the stop.
Anaconda · Architectural Landmarks
Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park
View the 585-foot brick smelter stack, among the tallest masonry structures in the world
Dillon · State Parks
Bannack State Park
Montana's first territorial capital, a gold-rush ghost town with 50-plus buildings
Butte · Historic Sites
Berkeley Pit Viewing Stand
Look into a mile-long former copper pit filling with acidic, metal-laden water
Helena · Architectural Landmarks
Cathedral of St. Helena
Twin 230-foot spires modelled on Vienna's Votivkirche, with Munich stained glass
Ennis · Natural Wonders
Earthquake Lake
A lake made by a 1959 landslide, with drowned trees and trout water below the slide
Philipsburg · State Parks
Granite Ghost Town State Park
Silver-boom ghost town at 7,000 feet, reached by a steep road above Philipsburg
Virginia City · Museums
Nevada City
Open-air museum of about 100 gold-rush buildings, plus a hall of mechanical music machines
Butte · Museums
Copper King Mansion
W. A. Clark's 34-room 1888 house, still largely in its original condition
Helena · Natural Wonders
Gates of the Mountains
Two-hour Missouri River boat trip through the limestone canyon Lewis named in 1805
Butte · Historic Sites
Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook
Hilltop memorial to the 168 men killed in the 1917 Speculator Mine fire
Helena · Historic Sites
Last Chance Gulch
Helena's main street follows the 1864 gold gulch that started the city
Dillon · Historic Sites
Big Hole National Battlefield
Site of the 1877 dawn attack on a Nez Perce camp, with three walking trails