Travel Guide Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area

The park, riding on the states of Wyoming and Montana, offers magnificent canyons panoramas and is an ideal place for fishing and nautical activities. If most of it is located in Montana, it overlooks Wyoming near the town of Lovell. It is on that part that the huge Bighorn Lake formed by the dam on the river of the same name. If you decide to explore the Canyon National Recreation Area on this side, do not miss the tourist tours organized in summer by the park's rangers and take a tour on the side of the beautiful Horseshoe Bend marina.HistoryOriginally, the Bad Pass Trail was borrowed for thousands of years by native native native native native American native native American native native. In the winter, the inhabitants took refuge in the caves south of the park, and from the very sunny days they were heading north towards Montana to hunt. Later in the mid-nineteenth century, fur trappers and traders also borrowed the trail and nicknamed it Bad Pass Trail because of its difficulty. Jim Bridger, a famous mountaineer at the time, was the first to leave a record of his trip by floating a boat on the river waters. Today, the trail is considered sacred by the Amerindians and it is forbidden to borrow by car like on foot. The park has also been a breeding and holiday place, and in the summer, in the Wyoming part, you can visit one of 4 historical ranches (every week the visits honor a different ranch).