Anaconda - Pintler Scenic Route - 09/25/11

The Hickory House Inn is very nice.  We truly enjoyed our stay with MaryJane!!

We spent the day driving around the Pintler Mountain Scenic Route.  It was a gorgeous day and very warm.

This 64-mile drive goes from Anaconda, one of Montana's most historic towns, to Georgetown Lake, Philipsburg and ends in Drummond. The road travels through both conifer-clad mountains and sage-covered hills.    

We stopped to take a picture of Georgetown Lake which reminded us of another Georgetown that we will be visiting later this year!!

Philipsburg is a quaint sapphire mining town.  We enjoyed walking around.  We then moved on to find lunch in Drummond.   We had lunch at the Wagon Wheel diner with a view of the Used Cow Lot.

We then continued our drive back towards Anaconda and stopped in Deer Lodge.

The city is perhaps best known as the home of the Montana State Prison, a major local employer.  Deer Lodge was also once an important railroad town, serving as a division headquarters for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("the Milwaukee Road") before the railroad's local abandonment in 1980.

The current Montana State Prison occupies a campus 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of town. The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now the Old Prison Museum. In addition to a former cellblock building, the museum complex includes a theater, antique and automobile museums, and a former Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electric locomotive.


We walked through most of the museums before heading back to the B&B.  We went to a supper club for dinner and felt like we were transported back to the early 80's.  There was a lot of food and the music they played were 80's love songs. - You betcha!!!


Deb & Karel