The National Park Service has dropped plans to expand the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana.

The $1.1 million expansion would have occurred at base of the hill where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the 7th Calvary were defeated by Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho forces. NPS sought to add a theater to the visitor center.

Historians and former employees opposed the project. Long-term plans call for a new $11 million center to replace the existing one, which was built in the 1950s.

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Little Bighorn visitor center expansion dropped (AP 8/20)
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