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Anaconda Smoke Stack

STATE PARK

See one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world, a legacy of the legendary Anaconda Copper Company.

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LOCATION
100 Smelter Road
Anaconda, MT 59711
Latitude/Longitude: (46.12319 / -112.93143)

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Photo of Rhea Armstrong.

Rhea Armstrong began working for Montana State Parks as a seasonal tour guide at Lewis & Clark Caverns State Park in 1986 while attending Western Montana College in Dillon majoring in Elementary Education. She continued working summers at the park throughout her teaching career, and in 2005, became the assistant manager. Rhea was promoted to Park Manager of Lost Creek, Anaconda Smoke Stack, and Granite Ghost Town State Parks in 2013.

CONTACT

CONTACT INFO
Mailing Address:
Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
PO Box 489
Whitehall, MT 59759

Phone: 406-287-3541
Email: rarmstrong@mt.gov

Anaconda Smoke Stack

STATE PARK

The old Anaconda Copper Company smelter stack, completed in 1919, is one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world at 585 feet. The inside diameter is 75 feet at the bottom, tapering to 60 feet at the top. In comparison, the Washington Monument is 555 feet tall.

The stack dominates the landscape like the company once dominated the area's economic life. Since the smelter closed in 1980, the stack has become a symbol of the challenges that face communities dependent on finite resources.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the stack may be viewed and photographed only from a distance. Interpretive signs that detail its history are located in the viewing site near Goodman Park.

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