Lakes, River & Falls
Five Springs Falls Recreation Site, along Hwy 14A about 25 miles east of Lovell, provides unique vertical cliff habitat that is kept moist by the spray from a 100 foot waterfall. more...
Mountains, Canyons, Dunes & Formations
Shell Canyon, 25 miles east of Greybull on US 14, is a scenic highlight of the Big Horn Mountains. Of particular interest are Shell Creek, an outstanding trout fishing stream, and Shell Falls, where Shell Creek tumbles down steeply pitched granite and then is soothed and gentled downstream into a quietly running creek. more...
Natural Areas
The Big Horn Basin resembles a huge, walled fortress and has always been an area set apart from the rest of Wyoming by natural barriers. Surrounded by high mountain ranges on three sides and rough foothills in Montana to the north, the basin resembles an enormous bowl, with a center roughly 70 to 90 miles in size. more...
Most of the major Indian-military battles in Wyoming occurred during the 1860s in the Powder River Basin as Northern Plains tribes rebuffed efforts to establish forts in their territory. In August of 1865 troops led by General Patrick Connor attacked a camp of Arapahos at a site that is now a town park in Ranchester. read more
The site consists of 20 camping and picnic sites nestled in an oxbow of the Tongue River in the shade of large cottonwoods. There are two restrooms, a playground, and horseshoe pits. Each camping and picnic site has a grill and table read more
