Butte

Butte's bar scene carries the weight of its mining-boom history, when the city's saloons famously catered to specific immigrant communities - Finns at Scandia Hall, Scots entertained by bagpipes at McGregor's - and some, like the M&M, built in 1890, stayed open around the clock for over a century without locking the front door. BarFinder lists 56 venues here today, led by classic bars, sports bars, and pubs, with Headframe Spirits Manufacturing's distillery nodding to the city's mining-town roots (its name borrowed from the towering mine shaft structures that still dot Butte's skyline). Neighborhood spots like Jim's Bar and the Cavalier Lounge keep that old-school saloon-town character alive today, even as the city's population and economy have changed dramatically since the copper-mining days.