Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Montana

While in Montana, you might enjoy a visit to:

Pay at the entrance, walk through a tunnel, and emerge on the other side to a viewing platform over a vast hole in the ground filled with toxic water. It's like Crater Lake, except it's a lake of poison.
~28 miles from Deer Lodge.

This exceptionally shaggy dog lived alone at The Berkeley Pit for 17 years. The miners respected his toughness and named him "Auditor" because he would always show up when least expected.
~29 miles from Deer Lodge.

North America's largest Mary -- 90 feet tall -- looks down from atop the Continental Divide. Multi-hour tour takes you up the mountain and inside the statue.
~31 miles from Deer Lodge.

Ah, therapeutic radioactivity. Old mines have become radon vacation havens for the aged and ill, pockmarking the landscape between Basin and Boulder.
~30 miles from Deer Lodge.

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