Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Missoula

Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Missoula? These 10 are the genuinely strange ones — Anaconda Smelter Stack (The Big Stack), Double Arrow Lookout (overnight fire tower rental), God's Ten Commandments Park 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 Missoula they'd never find on their own.

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Anaconda Smelter Stack (The Big Stack) Rising 585 feet over the hills east of Anaconda, this 1919 copper-smelter chimney is the tallest free-standin… Anaconda
Double Arrow Lookout (overnight fire tower rental) Sleep inside a working-era fire lookout: this 1933 tower stands on a 20-foot base with a wraparound catwalk a… Seeley Lake (day trip from Missoula)
God's Ten Commandments Park Built in 2014 by Philip Klevmoen, a Creston horse rancher who took it as a divine call, this earnest evangeli… Columbia Falls, MT
Ringing Rocks Up a rough gravel road east of Butte sits a pile of weathered boulders that chime like bells when struck with… near Pipestone / Whitehall, MT
Silver Park Sculpture Park A free, outdoor sculpture program scattered across 15-acre Silver Park, on the Clark Fork River where the Pol… Missoula
2,710 Points of Light (Missoula Public Library) A reflective light sculpture by Denver artist Mike Lustig, unveiled in January 2023, hanging in the Missoula… Missoula
The Squashed Cat (Cattin' Around) A 7-foot-tall, 18-foot-long concrete cat sprawled flat beside a downtown parking garage entrance, sculpted by… Downtown Missoula
Big Silver Slipper A giant silver high-heeled slipper perched on a pedestal outside the Silver Slipper Sports Bar & Casino on th… Missoula (south edge / Brooks St)
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild A 26-acre forest sculpture park in tiny Lincoln, where large-scale installations by international artists are… Lincoln, MT (Blackfoot Valley)
Reinhardt Peony Garden on the 'M' Trail At the base of Mount Sentinel, right by the trailhead for Missoula's most-hiked path up to the concrete 'M,'… University District (Mount Sentinel)