Wild places in Wyoming

Park County, Cody to the Beartooth, Wyoming

A red hill in a green park, and a mountain watching it.

44.7° N · 109.4° WOpen plate →

Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming

The ground here is still being written by fire.

44.4° N · 110.6° WOpen plate →

Teton Range, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Mountains that begin without asking permission of the valley.

43.8° N · 110.7° WOpen plate →

Bear Lodge Mountains, Black Hills, Wyoming

A single stone column standing in a sea of prairie.

44.6° N · 104.7° WOpen plate →

Beartooth Highway, Absaroka–Beartooth, Montana / Wyoming

A road that climbs until the trees give up.

45.0° N · 109.5° WOpen plate →

Absaroka Range, east of Yellowstone, Wyoming

The first forest the country decided to keep.

44.5° N · 109.6° WOpen plate →

Wind River Range, Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming

A flat-topped mountain doubled in still water.

43.3° N · 109.9° WOpen plate →

Absaroka Range, north of Cody, Wyoming

A hidden valley the mountains forgot to close.

44.8° N · 109.5° WOpen plate →

Chief Joseph Scenic Byway, Wyoming

A pass that opens the Absarokas like a door.

44.7° N · 109.4° WOpen plate →

Bighorn Basin, east of Cody, Wyoming

A naked range of colored hills the basin kept for itself.

44.6° N · 108.8° WOpen plate →

south of Lander, Wind River Country, Wyoming

A red book of stone left open beside the highway.

42.7° N · 108.7° WOpen plate →

Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone, Absaroka front, Wyoming

A white canyon the Beartooths cut on their way out.

44.9° N · 109.3° WOpen plate →

Wind River Range, Bridger Wilderness, Wyoming

A ring of towers around a lake that earned its name.

42.8° N · 109.2° WOpen plate →

Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

The high roof of the Bighorns.

44.4° N · 107.2° WOpen plate →

Bighorn National Forest, US-14, Wyoming

A short, hard fall the highway stops to hear.

44.6° N · 107.6° WOpen plate →

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, Wyoming / Montana

A canyon the river kept, then a lake filled.

45.0° N · 108.3° WOpen plate →

east of Kelly, Wyoming

Red hills the river kept for itself.

43.6° N · 110.5° WOpen plate →

Slide Lake, Wyoming

The mountain that walked.

43.6° N · 110.5° WOpen plate →

Continental Divide, east of Grand Teton, Wyoming

The east door that first shows the Tetons.

43.8° N · 110.1° WOpen plate →

near Pinedale, Wind River Range, Wyoming

A cold lake the glaciers left at the door.

43.0° N · 109.8° WOpen plate →

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah / Wyoming

A red gorge the river turned into a lake.

40.9° N · 109.4° WOpen plate →

Red Desert, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Dunes that still move in a desert of sage.

42.0° N · 109.1° WOpen plate →

Snowy Range, Lake Marie, Wyoming

A granite lake the storms keep rewriting.

41.4° N · 106.3° WOpen plate →

west of Douglas, Converse County, Wyoming

A stone span the creek refused to go around.

42.7° N · 105.6° WOpen plate →

Laramie Range, Wyoming

The mountain the plains use as a compass.

42.3° N · 105.4° WOpen plate →

Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark, Wyoming

A stone circle still in use on the mountain.

44.8° N · 107.9° WOpen plate →

Cloud Peak Skyway, US-16, Wyoming

A high lake the skyway leans toward.

44.2° N · 107.2° WOpen plate →

Bighorn National Forest, US-16, Wyoming

A limestone hall the highway had to ask.

44.1° N · 107.3° WOpen plate →

Bighorn National Forest, US-14, Wyoming

A stone bow the highway runs under.

44.8° N · 107.4° WOpen plate →

US-14A, west rim of the Bighorns, Wyoming

The west door of the mountains.

44.8° N · 107.9° WOpen plate →