The Anaconda-Pintler and Flint Creek Mountains

The range across the valley carries a doubled name and a wilderness. The Forest Service set it aside as a primitive area in 1937 for the near-total absence of human change, and on September 3, 1964, it entered the national wilderness system among the original areas of the Wilderness Act. The name joins the range, called for the town and its company, to Charles Ellsworth Pintler, who settled in 1885 on the creek that now bears his name, in the Big Hole Valley between the battlefield and Wisdom. The Continental Divide follows its crest.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mai Wah Museum — 14 mi
  Two brick buildings left from Butte's Chinatown, and a store whose goods came home after seventy years away.
• Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine Memorial — 14 mi
  An overlook above the shaft where the 1917 fire began, and the letters some of the trapped men wrote while they waited.
• Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site — 22 mi
  A Métis trader's 1862 house, a cattle king's headquarters, and a grandson who threw nothing away.

More markers nearby

• Silver Bow Creek Remediation and Restoration — steps away
• Anaconda — steps away
• The Boulder Batholith and the Richest Hill on Earth — 17 mi
• Butte — 17 mi