A common image people have of Wyoming is one of a cowhand riding the open range. That image can be you. Throughout the state are adventure opportunities for visitors to relive the days of the great Western migration, or times when cowboys, rustlers and cattle barons dominated the Wyoming scene. But there are modern-day adventures here too.
Adventure travel is a personal experience, trying something new or honing new-found skills. It's seeing with your own eyes, feeling, touching and experiencing new lands, tasting the unknown. It’s a challenge to get out there and do something.
You can forget civilization for days or weeks out in the backcountry. Or you can return each evening to a full-service resort or hotel or to the down-home feeling of a Wyoming guest ranch. Adventure travel in Wyoming lets you experience the Western way – wild, woolly, exciting and the real thing.
Spend a day or week in the saddle herding cattle like Mitch, Phil and Ed did in the movie, City Slickers. Cattle drives, horseback riding and horse pack trips are all popular activities in Wyoming because the experiences are real, everyday activities on working Wyoming cattle ranches.
One of "nine young men from Kentucky" who accompanied Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their explorations of Louisiana Territory, John Colter became one of the expedition's most adept hunters. He was about thirty years old when the expedition set off in 1804, stood five feet ten inches tall, and looked out at the world through piercing blue eyes. read more
Truly a “land of many uses,” the Laramie Peak District of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest supports an active timber harvesting industry in addition to providing livestock forage, watershed and outdoor recreation benefits. read more
