Butte Gets National Attention: Why We Don’t Need To Worry About Out-of-Staters

Remember when the TV show Yellowstone showed off the beauties of Montana, and then we received an influx of out of staters moving here?

Good times, good times.

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I hope you can detect the sarcasm, because it was wildly annoying to have our social media flooded by people saying, "HEY! STOP WRITING ABOUT OUR STATE YOU'RE BRINGING IN MORE PEOPLE."

Yeah, I don't miss that at all.

Butte, America getting national love

Well, here comes the New York Times bringing Montana back to the forefront. The NYT published an article highlighting Butte's "growing local economy" thanks in part to Hollywood.

The article says there was a palpable buzz around the filming of 1923, the Yellowstone spin-off, in Butte, America. Sightings of Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren had the town in a tizzy.

I'm here to tell Montanans to... R-E-L-A-X.

Montanans hate it when national outlets publicise Montana because more people move here, more people vacation here, blah, blah, blah. But I don't think out of staters are going to see Butte on the television, turn to their spouse and say "Damn, Montana looks beautiful We gotta check this place out."

READ MORE: Why Montanans Are Buzzing About "Saving Yellowstone" On Paramount+

Butte America, I love you, but you're not the sexiest of towns. Montana's tourism department isn't using Butte as the poster child of a "Visit Montana" campaign.

Here's a random memory that popped into my brain: Remember when Butte had an elephant on the loose running around town?

READ MORE: An Elephant Was Seen Running Loose In Butte