Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area News

The history of the American West is full of accounts of explorers and travelers trekkers, if you will who were looking for the easiest and quickest routes from point A to point B, very often not an easy task in the rugged mountain and canyon lands of the Rocky Mountains.

" Belle, a historic tour boat that served visitors of Newport Harbor for more than 60 years, will no longer ply local waters.

The comment period will be open for thirty days beginning on January 15, 2009 and going through February 17, 2009.

The National Park Service has named Kate Hammond, a 14-year veteran of the U.S. Interior Department agency, as the new superintendent at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.