Mount Helena City Park
- Lewis and Clark County,Helena ,Helena Area,Lewis and Clark County
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Mount Helena rises 1,300 feet above the Last Chance Gulch giving panoramic views of Helena and the surrounding area. An 800-acre city park is a perfect place for a walk or a hike on twenty miles of hiking trails with lots of mule deer in the area. A wonderful place for exploration is the “Devil’s Kitchen,” a fire-blackened cave in the limestone cliffs of the mountains. To get to the parking area follow W. Main just southwest of Last Chance Gulch (downtown) and follow the signs up the hill. There is a historic sign at the parking lot which reads: Mount Helena stands out “grandly and cleancut,” a dramatic backdrop for the city that has grown in its shadow. Since picnickers first enjoyed its quiet refuge during mining camp days, Mount Helena has served the community. First miners searched in vain for its minerals. Settlers next stripped its slopes of timber and quarried its limestone. In 1883, residents by the hundreds trekked up the mountainside to watch the railroad, smoking slowly westward across the valley to Helena. Then on November 12, 1894, a huge bonfire at the summit lit the night sky, confirming Helena’s victory as a state capital. Near the century’s turn,
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