I've flown SLC-HLN; it is about 75 minutes in duration; sadly, it is on a CRJ-200. Leaves out of concourse E in SLC.

Enjoy Helena. I've completed a personal project of visiting all 50 state capitals and photographing the inside and outside of each capitol building. Helena is a beautiful city, somewhat in a bowl with mountains on all sides (the Continental Divide is on US 12 about 20 miles west of town). The main street is called "Last Chance Gulch".

The capitol is very nice; the statuary there honors Senator Mike Mansfield and his wife; also Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, who served two non-consecutive terms (1917-1919 and 1941-1943) and voted against the declaration of both World Wars; and, in front of the capitol, Thomas Francis Meagher, a 19th century Irish patriot who was exiled by the British to Tasmania, then made his way to our shores, served on the Union side in the Civil War, and was appointed territorial governor of Montana, ultimately drowning in the Missouri River.

There is an interesting juxtaposition of religion there. St. Helena Cathedral has to be in anyone's list of top 10 Catholic cathedrals in the USA. Less than a mile away is a mosque-like structure constructed by the Shriners, the Algeria shrine club, now operated as a civic auditorium.