(click on picture to enlarge)
Note lookout tower on the peak at right, and the switchbacks leading to the
lookout tower.
-Thanks to Jan Kujawa of San Francisco for sharpening and clarifying the original-
Red Mountain, in the
Highland Mountains, 16.5 miles south of
Butte.
Picture taken at 10.9 miles distance, from I-90, Feb. 2006.
In the 1860s
Highland City and neighboring Red Mountain City, in the Highland Mountains
were larger than nearby Butte, Montana.
Informative
Links
Red
Mountain Geology, by Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
History
of Highland Mountains Mining District, by Montana Department of
Environmental Quality
Climbing/Hiking Red Mountain at
SummitPost.org (some nice pictures and climbing
directions)
Please visit MontanaScience.com
In memory of Eleanor in Spokane, a poet and a wonderful woman.