Thunder Basin National Grassland Egret Communications
The Thunder Basin National Grassland, located in northeastern Wyoming, is in the Powder River Basin, between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills. Activities include hiking, hunting, fishing and bird and wildlife viewing. Camping is allowed, but there are no developed campgrounds.
The U.S. Forest Service manages the grassland, which is made up of federal, state and privately owned lands. The grassland provides forage for livestock and is also underlain with vast mineral resources.
The grassland, together with the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, encompasses nearly 3 million acres from the north and eastern borders of Wyoming south to the I-70 corridor that traverses north central Colorado.
The only native trout species in Wyoming is the Cutthroat Trout and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has a program that recognizes anglers who catch each of the four subspecies of cutthroat trout - Bonneville, Colorado River, Yellowstone and Snake River Cutthroat - known as "the Cutt Slam." read more
Starting at one of Wyoming’s lowest elevations in Torrington (4,104 feet above sea level), take U.S. 26 to Fort Laramie National Historic Site, the most important outpost on the major emigrant trails - the Oregon, Mormon, California read more
