List 8 Tourist Attractions in Butte, Montana | Travel to United States
Here, 8 Top Tourist Attractions in Butte, US State..
There's World Museum of Mining, Berkeley Pit, Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook, Copper King Mansion, Our Lady of the Rockies, Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Dumas Brothel Museum, The Mai Wah and more...
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Top 11. Best Tourist Attractions in Butte - Montana
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The most beautiful places and sight in Butte.
Top 11. Best Tourist Attractions in Butte - Montana: World Museum of Mining, Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook, Berkeley Pit, Headframe Spirits, Our Lady of the Rockies, MBMG Mineral Museum, Copper King Mansion, Clark Chateau, Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Dumas Brothel Museum, The Piccadilly Museum
The Rocker Inn / Americas Best Value Inn - Butte, MT
If you're going on an exciting getaway, you'll love the convenience of The Rocker Inn / America's Best Value Inn.
Our hotel offers a prime location only several minutes to downtown Butte. You can eat and shop before you hop on the nearby highways to head out to the beautiful countryside along Big Hole River, or historic ranching towns. Don't miss The Mineral Museum, Berkeley Pit, or the famous Our Lady of the Rockies statue. Snap some stunning photos at Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook. Try out some spirits at Quarry Brewing. Check the calendar for area events like July's Folk Festival.
Our hotel features all the basics and more, including a bar and lounge, business center, and pet-friendly policies.
You'll feel right at home in our comfortable rooms. Remember us when you book your next vacation - every day will be filled with memorable experiences at The Rocker Inn / America's Best Value Inn.
Balanced Rock, Granite Mountain Trail, Arizona
Balanced Rock, Granite Mountain Trail, Arizona
Historic Mining Town - Butte, Montana
Home to gold, silver and eventually copper mines, Butte was a mining boomtown, once the largest city for hundreds of miles, and called the Richest Hill on Earth because of the value extracted from the area. At one point it had hundreds of saloons and a robust Red Light District (in operation until the early 1980s).
Open pit mining began in the 1950s, including the opening of the Berkeley Pit in 1955, the largest truck-operated open pit copper mine in the United States. The Berkeley Pit was shut down in 1982. When water pumps at other mines were shut down, the pit filled with water loaded with toxic heavy metals. Today the pit is a major environmental hazard and Superfund site.
Mining has declined, and the historic Uptown district shows its age, but the city has done a lot to preserve Uptown and to showcase its mining history.
The Photos (in order)
M08A0118 - Uptown District
M08A0095 - Uptown District; the cafe has great food, by the way
M08A0148 - A mine in the Uptown District, noting the city's mile high elevation and mile deep mines; a number of older mines are locating in the middle of residential neighborhoods
M08A0137 - The Anselmo Mine Yard highlights underground mining technology
M08A0165 - Mining is still underway in Butte
M08A0179 - The toxic waters of the Berkeley Pit
M08A0160 - A memorial to the 168 miners lost in the 1917 Granite Mountain Mine disaster, the worst hard rock mining disaster in U.S. history
M08A0270 - Our Lady of the Rockies, a 90-feet tall statue of the Virgin Mary, located atop the Continental Divide above Butte
Little Colorado overlook, arizona
little Colorado overlook, Arizona heading to south rim of grand canyon
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota - Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Complete Tour (2019)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the 60-foot (18 m) heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The four presidents were chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development, and preservation, respectively. The memorial park covers 1,278.45 acres (2.00 sq mi; 5.17 km2) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.
South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. His initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on Mount Rushmore, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature American West heroes such as Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud, and Buffalo Bill Cody,[9] but Borglum decided that the sculpture should have broader appeal and chose the four presidents.
US Senator from South Dakota Peter Norbeck sponsored the project and secured federal funding; construction began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Gutzon Borglum died in March 1941, and his son Lincoln took over as leader of the construction project. Each president was originally to be depicted from head to waist, but lack of funding forced construction to end on October 31, 1941.
Sometimes referred to as the Shrine of Democracy, Mount Rushmore attracts more than two million visitors annually.
White Butte - Highest point in North Dakota (1,068.6 metres - 3,506 feet)
Although I don't normally seek out states' high points it looks like it could be a fun hobby given enough time (and money for gasoline...). I joined four other friends, over the Memorial Day weekend, to climb White Butte in North Dakota. The hike was only about 45 minutes, round-trip, with an elevation gain of about 122 metres (400 feet). Nevertheless, it was interesting and fun to be hiking around the buttes of southwest North Dakota!
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Huckleberry Hot Springs
Huckleberry Hot Springs located in the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. The springs is a short hike in from the access road, but does require a knee deep stream crossing to access. Water is comfortably hot with vary pool depths. Bring water shoes, rock bottoms can be hot.