The Big Stack after everything around it had been leveled.
The Big Stack stands alone: everything around it has been leveled.

The Big Stack

Anaconda, Montana

Standing tall since 1918, the Big Stack is visible long before you arrive in Anaconda. At slightly over 585 feet high it is the tallest free-standing masonry structure in the world. The Washington Monument could fit inside it.

For decades the Big Stack belched lead and arsenic over the town, but smelting operations ceased in 1980, and in 1983 the stack was condemned for demolition. Proud Anacondans banded together and saved the Stack. It's now a Montana State Park -- but it's a park you can't visit, because the dirt surrounding the Big Stack is still so toxic that you're kept over a mile away.

The Big Stack

Goodman Park

Address:: Monroe St., Anaconda, MT
Directions:: The viewing site is at the junction of E. Park Ave./US Hwy 1 and Monroe St. at the east edge of town, next to Goodman Park. Access is limited to the viewing/interpretive area only.
Phone:: 406-542-5500
RA Rates:: Worth a Detour

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Radon Health Mines, Boulder, MT - 39 mi.

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