Greater Butte - Silver Bow Scenic Drive

The Greater Butte - Silver Bow Scenic Drive Coalition seeks to create and promote a tourist-oriented scenic drive in the Butte area.

Proposed Designated Route (August 2008) - Map and Driving Directions

Click Here for a PDF (4.5 megs) of the map. At full scale, the map is 40 inches by 55 inches and will not print legibly on most desktop printers.

The proposed route is about 40 miles long. It takes about 2 hours to drive without stops, and about 4 to 6 hours to drive with stops at the major cultural sites, and scenic sights.

Click Here to download and print a copy of the Driving Directions (Word DOC).

Once you have driven the Proposed Designated Route of the Greater Butte Silver Bow Scenic Drive please send your comments and/or suggestions for improvement to:

ATTN: R. Edward Banderob, e-mail glenow@ainet.com

Mountain Identifier (July 2008)

One of the best Sites to see the Sights/Views of the visible mountains that surround Butte - Silver Bow is from the picnic tables a top the Alice Mine Dump (Click Here For View Point Map).

(Panorama of the Visible Mountains with the visible mountains identified is now "Under Construction" and is to be posted to this web site shortly.)

List of Mountains visible from the Alice Mine Dump View Point. Challenge > Download and print the List of Mountains. Go to the Alice Mine Dump View Point and see how many of the mountains you look at every day you can locate.

Historic Buildings Identifier (August 2008)

For information on Butte's historic buildings to go to the Virtual Historic Butte project, then click on the site of interest.

Power Point Presentation Now Ready For Public Viewing (April 2008)

A 30 minute power point presentation has been prepared covering:

Points of Interest - Sectors, Sites, Sights
Proposed Designated Route
Proposed Route Marker Design
Proposed Self Guided Tour Map(s)/Guide(s)

Any firm, organization, group, and/or neighborhood, family, cluster interested in seeing this presentation may request a presenter by contacting:

R. Edward Banderob, e-mail; glenow@ainet.com Phone; 406 723 3736

Cindy McIlveen, e-mail; mcilveen@bsb.mt.gov Phone: 406 497-6265

Public Opinion Survey Results (Feb. 2008)

To see survey results: Survey Results, Feb. 2008

Public Opinion Survey (Jan. 2008)

Instigators seek public input in the form of a survey. (Jan. 2008) • To download the survey in .DOC format, please Click Here. • Map (425 K PDF) (Note: Permission has been granted by the copyright holder, Spring Hill Press, for people to print out this map and return it to Cindy McIlveen showing their suggested route. Map to be removed Jan. 1, 2009) Return your proposed GBSB SD Route Map, showing your suggested route: To: Cindy McIlveen . Butte Restoration Alliance Butte-Silver Bow Planning Department 155 West Granite Butte, MT 59701

The Greater Butte - Silver Bow Scenic Drive Coalition seeks to create and promote a tourist-oriented scenic drive in the Butte area. They also seek public input in the form of a survey.

Below: Draft route marker for the scenic drive

Documents and links in these pages may represent resources for the Alliance and the public, as well as works in progress by the Alliance or its subcommittees.
Nothing here should be construed as a formal approval or recommendation by the Alliance unless so stated explicitly.