Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (redirected from Custer National Cemetery)

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument: see Little Bighorn, river; National Parks and Monuments (table).

---

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Parks Directory of the United States / US National Parks / National Monuments

Address: PO Box 39
Crow Agency, MT 59022
Phone: 406-638-3204;
Fax: 406-638-2623;
Web: www.nps.gov/libi/
Size: 765 acres.
Established: Ordered established as a national cemetery on January 29, 1879; proclaimed National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation on December 7, 1886; changed to Custer Battlefield National Monument by act of Congress on March 22, 1946; changed to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument on December 10, 1991.
Location: Within the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana, 1 mile west of I-90/US 87. Crow Agency, MT, is 2 miles north; Billings, MT, is 65 miles northwest; and Sheridan, WY, is 70 miles to the south.
Facilities: Rest rooms (é), visitor center (é), museum/exhibit, self-guided tour/trail. Entrance fee required.
Activities: Self-guided walking tours, bus tours, auto touring, interpretive talks.
Special Features: The area memorializes one of the last armed efforts of the Northern Plains Indians to preserve their ancestral way of life. Here, the famous Battle of the Little Big Horn was fought between the 7th U.S. Cavalry and the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians on June 25-26, 1876. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and more than 260 soldiers and attached personnel were killed.

---

See other parks in Montana.