We explored Butte today. I'm not sure what I expected but Butte is an old mining town. It did surprise me that about a dozen mine shafts were all within a mile of each other scattered inside the old city. If you can enlarge the picture of Butte you can see all the mines among the buildings. A very compact operation. We drove around the city and took a 1 3/4 hour trolley tour which was very informative. You can see the heavily polluted red water in an abandoned open pit copper mine. If you look close in one picture you can see a 90 foot tall statue of Mary (Lady of the Rockies) atop the Contenential Divide overlooking Butte. Of course we did the normal RV thing of stopping at a Wal-Mart on the way home.
