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Mount Helena City Park is [1] a 620-acre (2.5 km 2) park in Helena, Montana. The park encompasses Mount Helena which rises 5,468 feet (1,667 m) above sea level, overlooking the city of Helena 1,300 feet (396 m) below. The park includes six trails up and around the mountain, some of which connect to other trails in nearby Helena National Forest.
Helena (listen ⓘ; / ˈ h ɛ l ə n ə /) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Montana and the seat of Lewis and Clark County. [4] Helena was founded as a gold camp during the Montana gold rush, and established on October 30, 1864. [5] Due to the gold rush, Helena became a wealthy city, with approximately 50 millionaires inhabiting the ...
Mount Saint Helena (Wappo: Kanamota, "Human Mountain") [4] is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California. Composed of uplifted volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field , it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.
The largest nearby city is Helena, Montana, which is the headquarters location for the forest. The forest was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject of both Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire and James Keelaghan's folk song "Cold Missouri Waters." Map of Helena National ...
I-15, 20 miles (32 km) south of Dillon, Montana I-15 (foreground left to right) goes through the city of Great Falls, MT. I-15 crosses into Montana from Idaho just south of Lima Reservoir over Monida Pass, at 6,870 feet (2,090 m), the highest elevation on the entire route of I-15. [2] The route continues northwest through farmland and desert.
This is a list of the counties in the U.S. state of Montana. There are 56 counties in the state. There are 56 counties in the state. Montana has two consolidated city-counties— Anaconda with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County .
The Helena Historic District (HHD) is a federally designated historic district in Helena, Montana, United States. Since its establishment in 1972, the HHD has had boundary adjustments in 1990 and 1993. [2] [3] The original 1972 designation was composed of two unconnected sections known as "Downtown" and "West Residential". [3]
The Gates of the Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana.Created by an act of Congress in 1964, the wilderness is managed by Helena National Forest.A day use campground near the Gates of the Mountains, Meriwether Picnic site, is named in honor of Meriwether Lewis.