Wyoming Outdoors

Wyoming Outdoors has something for everyone and something for every season. Outdoor vacation activities can be found across the state all year long. Also known at the “cowboy state”, you can still see deer, antelope and buffalo roam. You can hear the stories of the pioneers and their trek on the Oregon Trail, go to a rodeo at Cheyenne Frontier Days and visit an Indian Reservation as you relive the frontier days. The parks offer areas to see forts, battle sites, western towns and even dig for dinosaur bones.

Yellowstone National Park, the first National Park in the United States of America, was established in 1872. It is America’s second largest park with over 3,400 square mile in which are found lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. Another famous draw to the park is the Old Faithful geyser and over 10,000 other geothermal features. It protecting the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle and lynx and is home to one of the world's largest concentrations of elk and the only place in the U.S. where bison have existed in the wild since primitive times. http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Yellowstone-National-Park/479685

The Grand Tetons rises 13,770 feet high. The sheer granite walls and the ice facings of the Grand Tetons entice rock and ice climbers to climb year round. With wildflowers and fly fishing in the Snake River in the spring and summer and Ice cliffs to climb in the winter, the Tetons have something for everyone year round.

Devil’s Tower is a massive stone cluster rising 1,280 feet about the valley to a height of 5,117 feet above sea level. It soars over the Belle Fourche River at the edge of the Black Hills. Today a popular hiking destination, the Tower was the source of legends and folklore in the Native American people.

The Black Hills National Forest was once the home of the Sioux Indians. Today the awe inspiring dark timbered ponderosa pine forest is a popular recreational area where you can picnic, camp, hunt and snowmobile. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/destination-hunter/north-america/united-states/west/wyoming/wyoming-nature-scientific-wonders.html

Winter sports in Wyoming are skiing, snowboarding and cross country skiing that can be done at one of the hundreds of ski resorts and parks. Ice climbing is available at the Grand Tetons National Park. Dog sledding is another popular sport in Wyoming. In the summer activities include camping, rodeos, fishing rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, off road four wheeling, hunting, wild river floating and mountain bike tours.

• Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area - covers 2 states. sheer cliffs of 1,000 feet over the river.
• California National Historic Trail - covers 10 states. Historic trail to California.
• Devils Tower National Monument - Devils Tower rises 1280 feet.
• Fort Laramie National Historic Site - private fur trading fort in 1834
• Fossil Butte National Monument - Some of the world's best preserved fossils.
• Grand Teton National Park - home to one of the most recognizable mountain landscapes in the world.
• John D Rockefeller Jr Memorial Parkway - in the Grand Teton National Park.
• Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail - covers 4 states. Known at the Mormon Trail.
• Oregon National Historic Trail - covers 6 states. Historic pioneer trail to Oregon.
• Pony Express National Historic Trail - covers 8 states. Historic trail used by the Pony Express riders.
• Yellowstone National Park - America's first U.S. National Park. http://home.nps.gov/applications/parksearch/state.cfm?st=wy

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