Fairmont Hot Springs Montana

Fairmont Hot Springs Montana is located near Anaconda in western Montana, in a valley presided over by the Anaconda Smelter Stack — a 585-foot masonry chimney that is the tallest such structure in the United States and a registered National Historic Landmark, built in 1918 to disperse the copper smelting fumes from the nearby Anaconda Copper Company facility that once processed ore from Butte's legendary Berkeley Pit, the largest copper mine in the world for much of the 20th century. The resort itself, built around naturally occurring warm springs, provides a year-round aquatic facility with indoor and outdoor pools fed by mineral-rich geothermal water at comfortable bathing temperatures, popular with families and recreationists from across western Montana and northern Idaho. The dramatic landscape of western Montana's mining heritage, with the Flint Creek Range and the Deer Lodge Valley spread around the resort, provides a historically resonant backdrop for mineral bathing in one of the American West's most storied copper country communities.