Butte Saint Paul was thought to be the highest point in the Turtle Mountains. Father George Belcourt and his missionary party found refuge during a blizzard on the south slope of the Turtle Mountains in January 1850, and he named the hill Butte St. Paul when the weather cleared. A large cross was erected atop the hill the next year. In 1933, a cairn topped by a cross was dedicated on the summit of Butte St. Paul.
