News Release

LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD ANNOUNCES SPRING HOURS AND FREE ENTRANCE DURING NATIONAL PARK WEEK

Date: April 1, 2019
Contact: Ken Woody, (406)-638-3217

Effective Monday, April 1st, 2019, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument will be open daily from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM. These spring hours will be in effect until summer hours begin on May 27, 2019. This includes Custer National Cemetery, the Indian Memorial/ Seventh Cavalry Monument, and the Visitor Center/Museum. The self–guiding Deep Ravine Trail including the tour road to the Reno-Benteen Battlefield will be open from 8:00AM -5:30 PM daily. Entrance fees are $25.00 per private vehicle. Interagency, Senior, Military and Access passes are also available.

Furthermore, entrance fees will be waived at Little Bighorn Battlefield and other National Park Service sites during the first day of the week only, on April 20th to recognize National Park Week/National Junior Ranger Day . National Park Week is an opportunity to engage families and communities in America’s great outdoors, reconnecting them with nature and creating close to home opportunities for people to get outside, be active, and have fun.

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument interprets and protects the site of one of the most famous battles in American history, the Battle of the Little Bighorn. For further information about National Park Week please see http://www.nps.gov/npweek/ or call [phone].

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