• Amy GilmoreRPod Travel 2021Traveler
    An old bank that's now a sports barLovely brewery in Anaconda, MTStarting to get used to the dim heavy feeling that wildfire smoke gives to areasBerkely Pit is a toxic water storage area. They use lazers and drones to keep birds away.Man vowed to honor women somehow if wife survived cancer. He built a huge Mary statue.

    Butte, MT has Toxic Water

    July 18, 2021 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    That was the highlight of the trolly historical tour I took of this once booming mining town. A bygone era of money, mining, brothels, and speakeasies. I learned a new term: superfund. If you asked me yesterday what a superfund was I would have said it has something to do with mutual funds. A superfund is an area that is so polluted with hazardous contaminants that the US govt steps in and says “Uh-oh…this is a bad one. It’s going to take a long time to clean this area up.” Butte, MT and some of it’s surrounding area was designated as a superfund site in 1982. And it feels that way. It’s still a decent sized town - even has an engineering college - but the town seems to be as dim as the smoke covered daylight currently in southwest Montana. We discovered new places and it wasn’t a terrible time but it is time move along. Next stop is Lewis & Clark SP.Read more