Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, that sits atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana. It is the United States's largest Madonna and its second largest statue.
The statue was built by volunteers using donated materials to honor women everywhere, especially mothers. The base is 8,510 feet above sea level and 3,500 feet above the town. The statue is lit and visible at night.
Two-hour roundtrip bus tours are available from June until September from the Our Lady of the Rockies shop at the Butte Plaza Mall. A tram consisting of handicapped accessible two 25-passenger cars is in the planning stages. As proposed, it would carry visitors over a mile-long vertical rise of 2,000 feet to the base of the statue in about 5 minutes.
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