įor that test run, we created a short road trip route in our home state of Montana. We wanted to hit up some of the more obvious places – like Glacier National Park, Whitefish, and Bozeman – but as we’d considered this trip over the preceding months, I had made a point that we had to visit Anaconda. Unless you’re from Montana or know a lot about 19 th-century mining in America, you’re probably not familiar with Anaconda. It’s Montana’s ninth-largest town (which isn’t saying much) and is mostly known for having a giant smokestack. I’m often shocked by how little we know about places that are just a short drive away, as if we’ve already written them off as having nothing worth seeing. Anaconda is only a couple hours from our hometown, yet we’d never done anything more there than stop for gas en route to the nearby Pintler Wilderness. Seeing the sorts of places that aren’t at the top of the TripAdvisor page is one of the main reasons we decided to take this road trip. If you ask us, almost every town has something fascinating to be discovered.
It’s why I scour websites like Atlas Obscura, trying to find the weirdest things in the most out-of-the-way places. Anaconda’s colorful and oft-forgotten history seemed like exactly the sort of place we should be exploring. (Update: Quite a few Airbnb rentals have opened up in Anaconda since we visited! Options include a room in a historic home, a newly-remodeled cottage, a modern studio apartment, and a full two-bedroom house.) Not surprisingly, Anaconda doesn’t have a ton of lodging options, and it was particularly lacking when it came to our go-to accommodation: Airbnb. The handful of very basic chain hotels seemed kind of lame and overpriced, and the bed and breakfasts were a bit out of our budget.
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