Too Close for Comfort Site (24HL101)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Wahkpa Chu'gun Buffalo Jump. The buildings preserve butchering sites and thousands of buffalo bones. The Milk River is in the background.
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Location	Behind the Wahkpa Chu'gn Meat Market on U.S. Route 2[2]
Nearest city	Havre, Montana
Coordinates	48°33′40″N 109°42′55″W / 48.56111°N 109.71528°W / 48.56111; -109.71528
Area	14.5 acres (5.9 ha)
NRHP reference No.	74001098[1]
Added to NRHP	December 30, 1974

The Too Close for Comfort Site is an archaeological site located in Havre, Montana, United States. The area was used as a buffalo jump. The site, also known as Wahkpa Chu'gn has yielded artifacts from three Native American groups.^[3] Between 2000–1500 years ago, the site was inhabited by the Besent peoples, followed about 200–300 years later by the Avonlea peoples for a brief period of time, and lastly by the Saddle Butte peoples who were using the site until about 600 years ago.^[3]

Wahkpa Chu'gn was discovered in 1962 by John Brumley, followed by further excavations in the 1960s and 1970s by the Montana State Archaeological Society and the Milk River Archaeological Society. John Brumley took over the excavations in the late 1970s, and in 1992 he and his wife began managing the site as an extremely experiential "non-sterile" archaeological site.^[3]

The site is open to the public, operated by the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1974.

Tours

One hour guided tours of the site are offered daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day.  Tours start at site entrance behind Holiday Village Shopping Center and can be scheduled by calling the museum at 406-265-4000. First tour starts at 9:00 am and last one at 4:00 pm. Visitors view artifacts remain in place as where they were discovered.  At the end of each tour visitors are taught how to throw the “atlatl” which was the weapon of choice for the earliest peoples at the site, the Besant.  The site is handicapped accessible and off season tours are available weather permitting by calling the museum.

On your tour you will view cultural features of the extensive remains of a wooden bison corral structure ceremonially incorporating bison skulls in its construction, a multiple stone boiling pit and roasting pit features and layers of bone to depths up to 20 feet.

Also on site is the Wahkpa Chu’gn Interpretative Center where artifacts from the site are available for public viewing.