The Miner's Hat

The Miner's Hat is a novelty roadside building on East Cameron Avenue shaped like a giant miner's helmet, built in the 1950s when the mining industry was at its peak and Kellogg was a prosperous town. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an example of mid-century programmatic architecture — buildings designed in the shape of the product or trade they represent.

The building has had various uses over the years and is now a local landmark that represents Kellogg's industrial past in a more affectionate light than the Superfund site. It is impossible to drive past without stopping.

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The Miner's Hat was built in the 1950s as a drive-in root beer stand, shaped like an enormous miner's helmet — a piece of roadside Americana that made sense in a town whose entire economy depended on what men in helmets pulled out of the ground. It has become one of the more photographed quirky roadside attractions in the Idaho Panhandle.