Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area - Plan Your Visit

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area by National Parks Service

Yellowtail Dam Visitor Center, Fort Smith, Montana is open 9:00AM-5:00PM daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Check locally for weekend hours in May and September. Closed the rest of the year. Bighorn Canyon Visitor Center, Lovell, Wyoming is open throughout the year. Memorial Day through Labor Day hours are 8:00AM - 6:00PM. Winter hours - December 6, 2009 to March 27, 2010: Open Thursday - Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.. The visitor center is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Crooked Creek Ranger Station, near Horseshoe Bend turnoff. Open Memorial Day through Labor Day.

Local Partners Information Resources

Lovell Chamber of Commerce

Getting There

Plane

Logan International Airport in Billings, Montana for either North or South entrances. Yellowstone Regional Airport in Cody, Wyoming for South entrance. Private Planes - The 5U7 airstrip in Fort Smith, Montana is unattended and a day VFR airstrip. There are mountains and power lines surrounding the airstrip. It is suggested that with winds permitting take off should be done on runway 07 and landings on runway 25.

Car

North Entrance - Fort Smith, Montana - Take Interstate 90 to Hardin, Montana. Turn on Highway 313 traveling 40 miles south to Fort Smith, Montana and the North entrance. South entrance - near Lovell, Wyoming - From 14A turn north on Highway 37, continuing 9 miles to South entrance.

Public Transportation

None available.