Bighorn Lake
Bighorn Lake is a reservoir behind Yellowtail Dam within the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, located in northern Wyoming and extending into southern Montana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States
- Also known as: “Yellowtail Reservoir”
Places of Interest
Highlights include M L Ranch.
M L Ranch
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The M L Ranch was established by Henry Clay Lovell and his financial backer Anthony Mason in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin in the late 1870s to the south of the present location. M L Ranch is situated 1½ miles southeast of Bighorn Lake.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kane.
Kane
Hamlet
Kane is a ghost town that existed 2 miles south of the confluence of the Shoshone River and the Bighorn River in Big Horn County, northern Wyoming, United States.
Bighorn Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Big Horn County, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Bighorn Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Norwegian Bokmål—“Bighorn Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bighorn Lake”
- French: “lac Bighorn”
- French: “Lac Bighorn”
- German: “Bighorn Lake”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bighorn-innsjø”
- “Bighorn”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lovell and Devils Playground.
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Highlights include Katys Nipple and Shoshone River.
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