Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Butte
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Butte? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Our Lady of the Rockies, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild, Anaconda Smelter Stack (The Big Stack) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Butte they'd never find on their own.
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Our Lady of the Rockies
A 90-foot white statue of the Virgin Mary stands in a notch on the Continental Divide, roughly 3,000 feet str…
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Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild
On the edge of tiny Lincoln, an international sculpture park sits inside a pine woodland that you wander on f…
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Anaconda Smelter Stack (The Big Stack)
A single 585-foot brick chimney rises alone out of a barren hillside east of Anaconda, the tallest surviving…
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Ringing Rocks
A jumbled pile of boulders on the edge of the Boulder Batholith that chime like bells when struck. A rack of…
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Our Lady of the Rockies (Night Tour)
A 90-foot white statue of Mary stands on the Continental Divide directly above town, the fourth-tallest statu…