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Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national park unit established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation, that straddles the border between Wyoming and Montana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 The dam, named after the famous Crow leader Robert Yellowtail, harnesses the waters of the Bighorn River by turning that variable watercourse into Bighorn Lake.〔 The lake extends through Wyoming and Montana, of which lie within the national recreation area.〔 About one third of the park unit is located on the Crow Indian Reservation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 Nearly one-quarter of the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range lies within the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.〔("Wild Horses." Billings Field Office. Bureau of Land Management. United States Department of the Interior. May 2, 2011. ) Accessed 2011-05-18.〕 Afterbay Lake located below Yellowtail Dam is a popular spot for trout fishing as well as for viewing ducks, geese and other animals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Government Printing Office )〕 The Bighorn River below the Afterbay Dam is likewise a world-class trout fishing area.〔 In addition, many archeological and historical resources serve to complement the area's natural features.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 There are visitor centers and other developed facilities in Fort Smith, Montana and near Lovell, Wyoming.〔 Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area has four historic ranches within its boundaries:〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 * The L Slash Heart Ranch was owned by Caroline Lockhart who was a famous journalist and novelist in the early 1900s. Two of her books were made into silent films in the 1920s.〔 * The Mason-Lovell Ranch was operating during the open range days of the 1880s; the ranch once had 25,000 cattle roaming the entire Bighorn Basin. * The Cedarvale Ranch located in the ghost town of Hillsboro, Montana, was a dude ranch owned by native New Yorker Grosvener W. "Doc" Barry where people came to vacation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 Visitors included Doc Barry's friend President Teddy Roosevelt, but attracting other vacationers proved more difficult.〔 * The Ewing-Snell Ranch is a former family ranch that was started by Erastus Ewing.〔 Erastus came west to get rich in gold mining, but the gold fields yielded little gold.〔 Erastus instead tried his hand at ranching.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 North of Lovell along the Sullivan Knob's Trail is one of the national recreation area's more unusual claims to fame.〔 There a visitor can stand in a certain spot on the canyon rim, shout across the canyon and then hear a "triple echo" in reply.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=National Park Service )〕 The Bad Pass Trail runs through the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. The trail was used by prehistoric people for thousands of years. During the winter, the prehistoric people would travel southward on the trail to reach the caves in the canyon, and when spring arrived they would travel northward for the hunting grounds in what is now Montana. The trail is considered a cultural or sacred site, so nobody is allowed to walk or drive on it. The mountain men used the trail when they were in the area around two hundred years ago, and they are the ones who named it the Bad Pass Trail because of its ruggedness. Jim Bridger, the famous mountain man, was the first person to float down the river and leave a record of his trip. He said the rapids that existed in 1825 when he made the trip seemed to be like "foam." ==See also== * Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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