Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
National Park Service, Montana.
This area memorializes the US Army's 7th Cavalry, Crow, and Arikara scouts and the Lakotas, Cheyennes, and Arapaho in one of the American Indian's last armed efforts to preserve their way of life. Here on June 25 and 26 of 1876, 263 soldiers, including Lt. Col. George A. Custer and attached personnel of the US Army, died fighting several thousand Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors.
Directions
Take Interstate I-90 and exit at the Crow Agency Exit 510 at Jct. 212. To reach Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, turn right at the park entrance onto Battlefield Tour Road 756.
Additional Information
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Map
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Official Website
