Butte Historic District and the Berkeley Pit
National Historic Landmark District · Butte, Montana
A mining city on a hill that called itself the Richest Hill on Earth and meant it — Butte's copper wired the electrification of America, and at its peak it held a hundred thousand people, a hundred nationalities and a union movement that made it one of the most fought-over towns in the country. Uptown is now one of the largest National Historic Landmark districts in the United States, a whole Victorian downtown left standing because the money left too fast to knock it down. On the edge of it is the Berkeley Pit: a mile-wide open-pit mine filled with acidic metal-laden water, and part of the largest Superfund site in America.
300 West Park Street, Butte, Montana, 59701, United States
The Uptown historic district is a public city, free and open at all hours, with the headframes lit at night. The Berkeley Pit viewing platform charges a small admission and is seasonal, generally March to November and closed in deep winter. The World Museum of Mining, the walking tours, the summer trolley and the Our Lady of the Rockies bus are each separately ticketed and mostly seasonal. The Montana Folk Festival in July is free.
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