Area
This area memorializes the US Army's 7th Cavalry and the Lakotas and Cheyennes in one of the 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 and Cheyenne warriors.
Take Interstate I-90 and get off at Crow Agency Exit 510 at Jct 212. To reach Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, take Battlefield Tour Road 756
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument weather: Spring: 50-60 (F) degree days/ 30+/- (F) degree nights Summer: 70-100 (F) degree days/ 45-60+ (F) degree nights Fall: 50 degree (F) days/ 25+/- (F) degree nights Winter: 20 degree (F) days/ 0+/- (F) degree nights
Entrance fee is $15.00.
For individuals on foot or riding a motorcycle or bicycling into the battlefield.
