It stretches the entire 72 mi (115 km) length of the Bighorn Canyon at full pool.

The Lake was created by the 1965 construction of Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River, near Fort Smith, Montana.

[2] Bighorn Lake has a surface area of 5574 acres, because of the dam, streamflow in the river is relatively stable with little daily fluctuation.

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