Welcome to the Anaconda Montana Picture Tour

Take a historic community, add dozens of beautiful National Historic Registered buildings, surround it with mountains, lakes and streams, then fill it with thousands of friendly people and you have Anaconda, Montana. Did we mention that Southwest of town you’ll find Moose and Elk in the Mount Haggin WMA. To the West you’ll find the popular Discovery Ski area and world famous Georgetown Lake. Finally, to the South is “Trout Heaven” also known as the Big Hole River Valley.  Please join us, as we see Anaconda Montana’s historic buildings and parks during a beautiful Fourth of July weekend.

Anaconda Historic Buildings And Parks East Of Main Street

Want more Anaconda historic buildings and parks? Then walk East of Main Street in Anaconda, Montana to see some of the original housing of the Anaconda smelter workers. The neighborhood are dotted with tall church spires surrounded by dozens of 120-year-old homes.  Just off Main Street and East Fourth Street is the Hearst Free Library. Take a minute to admire the bronze castings depicting Anaconda history found at the base of the free standing clock. Over on East Sixth Avenue and Adams Street you will see the former Anaconda Company Foundry complex. The buildings housed what was once the most complete metal foundry in the northwest. It was here iron and brass was molded into essential parts and equipment for the nearby smelter to the East. All the walking may cause hunger pains. Not to worry. On Park Avenue and Oak Street, again East of Main Street, you will find a Anaconda tradition called, Wind’s Pasty Shop. The Cornish meat pie has been a Anaconda and Butte staple since the days when the mines first opened.

WAshoe Park in Anaconda Montana

There is no other city park in Montana like Washoe Park in Anaconda, Montana.   The 140 Acre grounds offer historic buildings, beautifully maintained flower gardens, covered pavilions, tree lined ponds, a welcomed “pit stop” for Continental Divide hikers,    the spacious semi-pro Mitchell ball field and a crystal clear creek teeming with trout. The park was established by the Anaconda Company for employees in 1890.  Since that time, Montana’s first Fish Hatchery was constructed in the park in 1908. The Mitchell ball field and neighboring buildings were built by the WPA during the late 1930’s. A new duck pond and walking are was introduced in 2015. No mater were you walk in Washoe Park you are bound to see something interesting.

Art In Washoe Park 

“If you want to see Washoe Park at it’s finest plan to attend the three day arts and crafts event held every July. For over forty years, Washoe Park is the premiere Southwest Montana destination for arts and crafts, delicious food and world class entertainment. Just wait until you experience the famous “Rubber Duck Race.” Picture hundreds of yellow rubber ducks floating down a creek into collection nets. You win if the captured rubber duck has your number written under it’s belly. If watching the adults and kids collecting yellow rubber ducks doesn’t make you smile nothing will.

Adventure CAMP

The Anaconda Trails Association (ATS) in Washoe Parks provides a “pit stop” for those hiking the Continental Divide Trail.  The Adventure Camp is along a 90-mile alternative route taking hikers through Anaconda on their way to Helena, Montana. The Adventure Camp, which is free to use gives hikers a place to charge their cell phones, prepare a meal and store their gear while they buy trail supplies or seek medical attention.

LOST Creek State Park

If the rugged outdoors is more your preference, make the eight mile hop north, to the Lost Creek State Park.  Lost Creek flows through a narrow 3.000-foot deep canyon littered with giant boulders. Spectacular gray limestone cliffs and pink and white granite formation rise 1,200 feet above the canyon floor.  Did we mention there is a picturesque fifty-foot water fall at the end of a short hike from the picnic area.