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Eastern section of Bighorn Lake reservoir in Bighorn Canyon. The reservoir is 40 mi (64 km) south of Billings, Montana. It stretches the entire 72 mi (115 km) length of the Bighorn Canyon at full pool. The Lake was created by the 1965 construction of Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River, near Fort Smith, Montana. [2]
Wild horses in the Pryor Mountains along the Wyoming-Montana border Bighorn Lake in the South District. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.
The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the northern Rocky Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana.Created by an act of Congress in 1983, this rugged alpine wilderness is divided into four separated parcels typified by complex mountain topography: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit.
The range has an area of 39,650 acres (160.5 km 2) [2] and was established in 1968 along the Montana–Wyoming border as the first protected refuge dedicated exclusively for mustangs. [3] It was the second feral horse refuge in the United States. [4] About a quarter of the refuge lies within the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. [5]
Fort Smith is a census-designated place (CDP) in Big Horn County, Montana, United States. The population was 161 at the 2010 census. [3] The town is named for the former Fort C.F. Smith. The North District of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is accessed at Fort Smith. The Crow name for this town is Annu'ucheepe, “Mouth of the canyon ...
The dam and reservoir lie in Bighorn Canyon in the northwestern portion of the Bighorn Range where the Bighorn River cuts through it, 112 miles (180 km) above the Bighorn's junction with the Yellowstone at Custer, Montana. Bighorn Lake is the reservoir formed behind the dam, and has a capacity of 1,381,189 acre-feet (1.703672 × 10 9 m 3) of ...
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area; B. Bighorn Lake; K. Kane, Wyoming; Y. Yellowtail Dam This page was last edited on 20 October 2019, at 16:55 (UTC). Text is ...
The Dryhead region starts near the Wyoming border in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area and extends northward into the Crow Indian Reservation. Dryhead Creek drains a portion of the area, falling eastwards into Bighorn Canyon. The semi-arid basin is one of the most remote areas in Montana. The area is sparsely populated with isolated ranches.