Beartooth Highway

An All American Road

The Beartooth Highway All American Road, or U.S. 212, winds its way through parts of south-central Montana and Northwestern Wyoming displaying scenic views of the Beartooth Mountains. The Beartooth Highway begins at the northeast entrance to Yellowstone ...

National Historic Landmark- Chief Joseph Battleground of Bears Paw

Site of the battle in which Chief Joseph and more than 400 Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the United States Army (1877). The Bear Paw surrender signaled the close of the Nez Perces' existence as an "independent Indian people." Henceforth, ...

National Historic Landmark-Bear Butte

National Historic Landmark- Bear Butte

Sacred to the Cheyenne, Bear Butte is the place where Maheo imparted to Sweet Medicine (a mythical hero) the knowledge from which the Cheyenne derive their religious, political, social, and economic customs.

The site is ...

Bear Valley

First called Johnsonville: Bear Vally had a population of 3,000 including Chinese, Cornish and Mexicans during 1850-60 when Col. John C Fremont's Pine Tree and Josephine mines were producing. Fremont's elegant hotel "Oso House", built with lumber brought around the ...

Beards Creek Church

The Beards Creek Church was orderly constituted on December 29, 1804, by the Rev. John Gooldwire, the Rev. John Standford, the Rev. Isham Peacock, and the Rev. David Hennesy, all orderly Baptist ministers. Jacob Dees and Moses Westberry were that ...

Bear Mountain Bridge

Bear Mountain Bridge

The first highway bridge to span the Hudson River south of Albany

Begun March 24th 1923 – Opened Nov. 27th 1924

To all who

With thought labor and loyalty have

Contributed to the construction of

This bridge ...

Bear Skin Neck

1630 - 1930

Named from a bear caught by the tide and killed in 1700. Commercial and shipbuilding center of Rockport for 160 years. First dock built here 1743. Sandy Bay Pier Company organized 1809. Site of Stone Fort and Sea ...

Coyote Lake – Harvey Bear Ranch County Park

In the 1830s, most of what is now the park was located on the Rancho San Francisco de las Llagas granted to Carlos Castro. The reservoir is found on early public lands and also on the lesser Rancho La Polka ...

Bearpaw Shale and the Inland Ocean

The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some ...

The Bear Pit

Merriam Historic Plaza

The Bear Pit Bronze sculpture by artist Kwan Wu. Dedicated and installed 2006.

This sculpture by artist Kwan Wu represents the City of Merriam's first public sculpture installation. The mother bear and cubs celebrate one of the most popular ...