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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 between Wyoming and Montana. It is divided into two distinct areas, the North District accessed via Fort Smith, Montana and the South District accessed through Lovell, Wyoming.
Fort C. F. Smith was a military post established in the Powder River country by the United States Army in the southern portion of the Montana Territory on August 12, 1866, during Red Cloud's War. Established by order of Col. Henry B. Carrington , it was one of five forts proposed to protect the Bozeman Trail against the Oglala Lakota ( Sioux ...
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 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]
Alphabetical list of places at the National Park Service website; Former National Park System Units: An Analysis Archived 2005-08-29 at the Wayback Machine; National Park Service; National Park System Units by type; National Park Foundation; Parks by Date of Establishment; America's Hidden Treasures, an essay on the lesser known National Parks
Glacier National Park was established on May 11, 1910 as the United States' tenth national park. [4] The park covers more than one-million acres and is home to many famous mountains and roads, such as Going-to-the-Sun Road and Chief Mountain. [5] The park is located in two Montana counties: Glacier and Flathead.
In an effort to save on cash processing and hand handling fees, 22 national parks have gone cashless as of 2023. In September 2023, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) proposed the "Protecting Access to Recreation with Cash Act" (PARC) which would require national parks to accept cash as a form of payment for entrance fee. [ 13 ]
These units are a subset of the areas in the United States National Park System, and nearly all participate in the national park passport stamps program. National Park System units are found in all 50 states, in the District of Columbia , and in the U.S. territories of Guam , American Samoa , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and Puerto Rico .