Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. It is one of over 420 sites managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The recreation area spans 120,296.22 acres, straddling the border ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Montana and Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area: Remnants of a cairn-marked trail between the Bighorn Basin and the northern plains, established by Native Americans in antiquity and used by their descendents and mountain men into the mid-1830s. Extends into Carbon County, Montana. [6] 3: Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building
Pages in category "Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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]
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area consists of approximately 120,000 acres (490 km 2) within the Bighorn Mountains. It includes Bighorn Lake , a reservoir damming the Bighorn River . In 2015, a sudden, huge 'gash' was found in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains.
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]
The headgate structure diverted water from the Bighorn River to their lands. It was designed by William F. Graves, and construction was carried out by Crow workers. The project was completed in 1904. Today the site is included in Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. [2] [3]