Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness, Protected wilderness area in southwestern Montana, United States.

The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is a protected mountain area in southwestern Montana covering almost 250 square miles (650 km2). It runs for 40 miles along both sides of the crest of the Anaconda Range, with elevations from about 5,000 feet to 10,793 feet at West Goat Peak. The wilderness lies in parts of Deer Lodge, Granite, Ravalli, and Beaverhead counties.

The name comes from the town of Anaconda and its copper mining company, and from Charles and Katie Pintler, homesteaders who settled along Pintler Creek between Big Hole National Battlefield and Wisdom in 1885. The segment was designated a Primitive Area in 1937 and reclassified as a Wilderness Area in 1964. That year Senator Mike Mansfield asked the National Park Service to study its potential as a national park; the agency declined.

The name joins the town of Anaconda and its copper mining company with Charles and Katie Pintler, homesteaders who settled along Pintler Creek in 1885 between the Big Hole National Battlefield and Wisdom. Anglers still head for Upper Seymour, Edith, Ivanhoe and Johnson Lakes, and wildlife watchers look for mountain goats, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep and pika.

The easiest approaches are from Pintler Lake to the south and from Lutz Creek and Moose Lake to the north. The wilderness lies in Deer Lodge, Granite, Ravalli and Beaverhead counties, and the forest north of Pintler Pass, including Johnson Lake, burned heavily in the 2000 Mussigbrod and other fires. There are no public services, so plan for changing weather and rough ground.

The forest north of Pintler Pass, including Johnson Lake, burned heavily in the Mussigbrod and other fires of 2000, so hikers there walk through stands of standing dead timber. Upper Seymour, Edith, Ivanhoe and Johnson Lakes are among the most visited fishing lakes, stocked with trout.