Little Bighorn National Monument: Custer's Last Stand

We pack and leave Yellowstone RV Park and Inn in Wapiti, and start our 200 mile drive through Big Horn National Forest.

We stop at 7th Ranch RV Park (we assume it's "7th" name is taken from General Custer's 7th Infantry), set up the 5ver and then take off to Little Bighorn National Monument (formerly known as Custer National Monument). We look at the museum and watch their movie, just like we do in every national park/monument and then take the drive around the battlefield, stopping at information signs.

We stop at the far end of the drive and take a short walk to look at the markers; each killed solder has a grave marker placed where they think he was killed. We've been stuck in the car for much of the day so we're glad to get outside for a walk.

On the way back toward the visitor center we see a group of indians (the park is surrounded by the Crow Indian Reservation) rounding up a herd of horses. We pretend to read an information sign along the road, but are actually watching them try to round up these horses using a 4-wheeler. We watch them chase the horses for about 5 minutes and then decide we should move on. Not sure if they ever got those horses in the corral.

The tour ends at a memorial to the Lakota Indians killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The memorial is well designed and we enjoy looking at it.

We see a storm brewing to the west of us, so we hop back in the truck and return to the trailer for dinner. The storm never reaches us, but the lightning show in the distance is phenomenal and entertains us. One lightning bolt after another.