Nez Perce National Historical Park is a non-traditional National Park site. The park tells a story about a people that is spread over a large geographic area. For countless generations, the Nimiipuu or Nez Perce have lived among the rivers, canyons and prairies of the inland northwest. Despite the cataclysmic change of the past two centuries, the Nez Perce are still here.

The park has thirty-eight sites in four states - Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington. A park map is available here and can be used in conjunction with this list. Comprehensive trip planning information is also available here.

In this photo, a 150-year-old buffalo hide tipi in the park’s collection was photographed.  The tipi was probably made in the 1850s and consists of sixteen to twenty buffalo hides, stitched together with sinew. 

Photo: National Park Service