- The list below includes 17 free or cheap things to do in or near Butte, Montana, including 28 different types of inexpensive activities like Movie Theaters, Specialty Museums, Off Road & ATV and Bowling.
- From Granite Mountain Memorial Overlook to Our Lady of the Rockies, there are a variety of budget-friendly attractions in Butte and in nearby cities within 25 miles like Anaconda and Nevada City.
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The Piccadilly Museum is a museum for a large collection of transportation memorabilia. Exhibits include kangaroo crossing signs and license plates. There are also highway and subway markers, vintage cars, and Evel Knievel memorabilia.
2.1 Miles
Carmike Plaza 6 is a movie theater that also shows live performances, sporting events, and concerts in the auditoriums. The theater has gift cards and the auditoriums are available to rent for birthday parties.
3.5 Miles
Hosting regional bowling leagues, Star Lanes Family Sports Center is a bowling alley that offers open bowling sessions to the public. The center also has a lounge where visitors can watch or participate in karaoke on Saturday nights.
20.9 Miles
Featuring 18 lanes, Copper City Bowl & Cafe offers open bowling with automatic scoring and shoe rental. The facility serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and provides slot machines, a bar and a banquet hall for private events.
21.5 Miles
Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park is home to one of the tallest free-standing brick structures in the world. Nearby this remanent building of the Anaconda Copper Company from the early 1900s is an interpretive display exhibit.
21.7 Miles
A 12-lane bowling center, Cedar Park Bowling Lanes offers open and league bowling, horseshoes and arcade video games. The center also has a sports bar and lounge with casino games and televisions displaying sporting events.
22.0 Miles
Departing from both Nevada and Virginia Cities, Alder Gulch Railway offers a short but entertaining train ride. Along the way riders can take in local scenery while also learning about the area.
28.8 Miles
The Old Montana Prison Complex was originally built by inmates and opened on July 2, 1871. The complex has been turned into a series of museums including an Old Prison Museum, Law Enforcement Museum, Frontier Museum, Powell County Museum, Montana Auto Museum, Yesterday's Playthings and Cottonwood City.
29.5 Miles
Cattle baron Conrad Kohrs once owned 10 million acres, and 1,600 acres of it are open to the public as Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. Visitors can take guided tours including wagon tours pulled by draft horses, hear blacksmiths and cowboys talk, see farm animals, and tour the ranch house.
37.1 Miles
Eighty miles long, the Beaverhead River has more large brown trout than any other river in the state. Anglers can take a boat out or fish from the bank at this river.