Columbus, MT to Deer Lodge, MT

View from our campsite in Columbus, MT.  Near Columbus (Nye) is Stillwater Mine which is the only platinum & palladium mine in the U.S.

The drive between Columbus and Deer Lodge has many beautiful sites.

 

Just west of the Continental Divide is Butte, MT.  An obvious site around Butte is the Berkeley Pit, a former open pit copper mine. It is one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet. The mine was opened in 1955 and operated by Anaconda Copper and later by the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), until its closure in 1982.