• Big Hole National Battlefield, Wisdom Montana

    Big Hole

    National Battlefield Montana

Management

Big Hole National Battlefield is a unique unit in the National Park Service. This park is one of thirty-eight sites that is part of Nez Perce National Historical Park. Unlike other sites that have a contiguous block of land, Nez Perce National Historical Park stretches across Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Montana. Of the park's thirty-eight sites, the National Park Service owns nine and each one offers its own set of challenges and opportunities.

For more information on how the park developed, please take a look at the battlefield's administrative history. Press the link below and the entire document is available.

Big Hole National Battlefield Administrative History

Did You Know?

The Nez Perce camp site along the North Fork of the Big Hole river.

Big Hole Battlefield became a National Monument in 1910.  In 1933 the battlefield was added to the National Park service system.  It remains sacred ground to the Nez Perce people to this day.