Butte, United States Travel Blogs

On to Crested Butte
Aug 31, 2008

... wind and loads of rain. So instead of sticking around in Moab, we decided to get on the road and head over to Crested Butte, Colorado a day earlier. We've settled in now and explored the town a bit--it's split up into two sections. Down in the valley ...

Eastward Ho!
Aug 18, 2009

We moved today!  We left Issaquah, WA at 6:30 this morning and just arrived in Butte at 7:00pm.  We lost an hour but almost 12 hours in the saddle was plenty.  It was a great ride though.  No big towns at all and some fantastic roads.& ...

Fossil Butte National Monument : 2002 US Roadtrip
Jul 3, 2002 (3 photos)

I left the Tetons at 9AM on July 2nd and drove 156 miles to Fossil Butte National Monument in Wyoming and arrived at 1:20PM. There were beautiful hills/buttes of every shade of red, yellow, orange, brown and green. Originally they were below a lake 50 ...

Shuffle off to Buffalo
Aug 27, 2006 (7 photos)

... . BRIAN - Enjoyed the banter with the boys. Being English breaks the ice even better than having a dog. Went to Bear Butte state park. An isolated volcanic peak. A place of spiritual Indian retreat. Lots of prayer cloths and offerings tied to trees. Then ...

More mountain biking
Sep 4, 2008 (5 photos)

... mountain biking, with fantastic weather and fun trails to ride on. For our second day, we continued going up and down Mt. Crested Butte, exploring more trails and even getting lost a few times (but lost in a good way). Even Mike got into a 4 wheeler and ...

Day Two Hundred Seven
May 21, 2005

Motel 6 again by the interstate.

The Original Teocalli!
Mar 16, 2008 (25 photos)

... me to eat at some lame hometown restaurant, but who could pass up on the birthplace of one of the greatest restaurants on earth. Crested Butte was packed full of snow. Most of the houses are covered in snow, and all the walkways are dug out 5 ft. deep. ...

Old Fossils
May 9, 2009 (2 photos)

... Wyoming is bleak cold and barren, but atop one bleak cold hill is one of the world's richest fossil deposits at Fossil Butte (pronounced "beaut" if you don't mind!). There are no dinosaur bones here, they died out 5 million years earlier, but there ...

So Close and Yet So Far
May 8, 2006

Good day ya'll, With sunny blue skies all around us we anxiously jumped into the Burb anxious to get home. We made a "last chance" shopping pit stop in Great Falls at their Target store. (Shelby and I do love Target)I was able to contain myself and ...

Downhill Mountain Biking in Crested Butte
Sep 2, 2008 (4 photos)

We came to Crested Butte for one reason: downhill mountain biking. Crested Butte has an Adaptive Sports Center which spends the winter taking people skiing and the summer doing handcycling and 4 wheel mountain biking. We had seen pictures of people on ...

Elephant what?
Nov 28, 2007 (21 photos)

... year, apparently the first for 21 yrs!! Almost as good a record as Bournemouth. We're actually camped at a very nice site in Elephant Butte, yes that is its name  and it's pronounced Beuwt by the way. Its claim to fame is that it's a 'diamond in the ...

We are in the middle of no where!
Apr 9, 2008 (29 photos)

Today there is not much to tell.....we drove.  There is not much to do out here but drive.  We will let you know more when we get to Yellowstone tomorrow. Chris and Kara

Our Wedding
Sep 5, 2005 (1 photos)

Every journey has a starting point, and because we fell in love with this place a year or so ago, ours begins in Crested Butte, Colorado, on September 4th, 2005. On that date, the day of our wedding, we had been together for 14 years, so by that time we ...

From Canada into the USA
May 18, 2008 (34 photos)

... in a valley surrounded by snow capped peaks. One side of the bowl is actually the Continental Divide - 8180 feet above sea level.  Butte was once a copper mining town - at one time it had 200 operating mines - open pit as welll as underground mining. ...

A slight update
Jun 24, 2005

Hey there fan club!! If anyone is still checking this ridiculously outdated travel log, I thank you for your continued anticipation on hearing about our adventures... and for you who have abandoned all hope that this web site will ever be updated..I dont ...

Butte ,Montana to Missoula, Montana
Sep 4, 2009

... had lived here their whole lives ! I kept thinking that if these buildings were in Victoria the city would have them restored. Butte desperately needs some tourists to contribute to it's financial needs however they haven't got a full game plan on how to ...

Elephant Butte
Apr 21, 2009 (4 photos)

... , steep, winding, rough, etc.) It was a beautiful day today. Sunny and 70's. April 21 Today I have internet. I am at Elephant Butte, Nm. It's HOT here. I refuse to turn on the air conditioner 'cause I have been looking for warm. It's 90 in the RV ...

Indians....here we come
Sep 13, 2008 (1 photos)

... in ongeveer 15 minuten, dat kan alleen in de VS en vorige keer waren we in Metropolis dus we hebben wat 'Super'krachten. In Butte een hotelletje uitgezocht en in de avond na een wijntje gaan slapen. Zometeen gaan we naar de pow wow...eens zien wat dat ...

Discovering a place you have traveled through befo
Jul 13, 2009 (12 photos)

... (which was great as I hate having to pack up our VW Euro van).  We wanted to do the underground tour with Old Butte Historical Adventures but that was full for the day so we booked it for the following morning.  First we saw the Copper King ...

What happened when Taylor met a bear...
Aug 10, 2008

Hi Mark is finding it hard to get access to the net at the moment so I (Vicki-Mark's girlfriend) will be updating his blog. Mark now has a US mobile 014065339225. Mark's doing really well - the going sounds tough but he is making good progress. He's ...

2e-3e jours: Crested Butte (Fat tire festival)
Jun 21, 2008 (17 photos)

... déjà visitées lors de notre road tripp l'année passée. Ça nous a replongé dans notre beat de voyage.. et de nostalgie !! Crested Butte, ancienne ville minière, célèbre pour ses multiples montagnes, pour son ski et panorama à couper le souffle...elle est aussi la ...

Almost There
Jul 22, 2009 (8 photos)

Today we left the vast openness of Montana and climbed into the mountains, through Idaho and into Washington. We crossed the Columbia Plateau in Washington with its huge wheat fields and semi-arid range land for about 100 miles. Besides wheat we passed ...

Butte, Montana
May 21, 2009

Butte, Montana

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Aug 15, 2007

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Ghost hunting
Apr 23, 2009 (11 photos)

... a very interesting day. I rode about 200 miles on the MC today, and met less than a dozen cars once I was out of Elephant Butte. I wasn't going to turn the corner in Winston and go to Chloride, but I'm glad I did. I found one of the most awesome museums ...

Montana
Aug 28, 2006 (6 photos)

Montana had varying scenery which was nice since it is such a loooooong state. Either Butte or Billings was doing a lot of new neighborhood construction and I loved loved loved the houses they were building! They weren't copy cat houses and they were ...

Heading home
Dec 9, 2007 (1 photos)

We made hte five hour drive out to Denver in time to fly home.  We split up in Phoenix before Win headed home to Mammoth and I headed home to Portland.

Elephant Butt? or is it Butte?
Aug 6, 2009

This trip is getting hazy...I didn't keep a proper journal, I didn't really have the time...But I remember our hippie caravan pulled up to this lake in the dead of night, during a (nearly) full moon.  Everything was silver and blue, barren and ...

A Wintery Start
Dec 3, 2005 (1 photos)

... obese people lined up so that they could pack more and more food into their mouths! We finished the day by driving to Butte. The driving was a little slow with strong head winds, steep passes, and some snow covered sections, but we made it without ...

Crested Butte
Mar 27, 2008

... snow conditions. I explored around the hill, unfortunately the wind limited me to one run from Silver Queen and the High Lift. I saw some very steep terrain there. Crested Butte has a great ski area, and some day I'll get it when it's at it's best.