Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

Devil’s Canyon Overlook

Devil’s Canyon Overlook offers some of the most spectacular views of the meandering Bighorn River, some 900 feet down. The Natural Corrals situated between the rock flanks on the left is a prime example of an abandoned meander.

Bighorn Canyon

View towards the Pryor Mountains (left), Dry Head Basin, Garvin Basin and the Bighorn Mountains (right). The rock layers are mainly from Precambrian (ca. 2.5 billion years old) through Pennsylvanian (300 million years old).

View towards the Powder River Basin

Image taken from the eastern slopes of the Bighorn Mountains towards the Powder River, in eastern Wyoming. The brick red rocks of the Chugwater formation are 200 to 250 million years old.

Little Bighorn Battlefield

These windswept grasslands of southern Montana were on June 25-26, 1876 the scene of the infamous Battle of Little Bighorn River, where combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes annihilated the U.S. 7th Cavalry under George A. Custer. More than 260 U.S. soldiers lost their lives, as did about 100 Indians. The Battle of Little Bighorn represents one the final armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life. While victorious on this occasion, as we all know they would eventually lose. Little Bighorn Battlefield is a National Monument.

Crazy Horse's Ponies

The Little Bighorn Battlefield stretches several miles through rolling grass hills, which are perfect ambush country. By the time this shot was taken in late July the grasses had already turned yellow and brown.

Spirit Warrior Sculpture

Native Americans who had fought and died to defend their homeland had to wait until the 1990s before a monument was erected honoring their memory on the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Oglala Sioux artist Colleen Cutschall (alias Sister Wolf) designed this sculpture for the Indian Memorial near the Last Stand Hill.