On a shortcut from Billings to Great Falls on Montana State Hwy 191, the Judith Gap Wind Energy Center is located about half-way between Harlowton and Judith Gap. While not a tourist destination, the wind center is an massive site seen 25 miles away. In the small town of Judith Gap is also a Blade…
Category: Wyoming
Devils Tower, Wyoming
Located in northeastern Wyoming, Devil’s Tower is a powerful astounding geologic feature protruding out of the prairie 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River – more than four football fields tall. The tower is America’s first national monument put in place on September 24, 1906 by US President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument’s boundary encloses an…
Trail End Kendrick Mansion | Sheridan, Wyoming
Trail End is a Historic Site on 3.8 acres and showcases a fully furnished historical house museum located at 400 Clarendon Avenue in Sheridan, Wyoming. It was inhabited by Wyoming governor and U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick, and thus is also known as the John B. Kendrick Mansion. The land was purchased in 1895 and construction…
Cheyenne, Wyoming | State Capitol
Cheyenne, Wyoming is the oldest and largest city in Wyoming with a population of 62,448. Established July 4, 1867, it is considered the nation’s rodeo and railroad capital – home to museums, historic hotels, mansions, steam engines, western-themed attractions, shopping, resorts and ranches. The city’s name was derived from the Cheyenne Native American people and is…
Sheridan, Wyoming
Sheridan, Wyoming located at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains is located 20 miles from Buffalo, Wyoming, 3 hours from Cody, Wyoming, 5 hours from Cheyenne, Wyoming and 5 hours from Yellowstone National Park. This town of 17,860 was founded in 1882 and named after General Philip H. Sheridan. Wyoming’s Coolest Small Town This spruced-up…
The Brinton Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming
Located 2 miles southwest of Big Horn, Wyoming and 15 minutes from Sheridan, Wyoming is The Brinton Museum located on the Quarter Circle Ranch, formerly known as the Bradford Brinton Memorial Museum. This 620-acre ranch was built in 1893 by William Moncreiffe, a Scottish immigrant and businessman. In 1923, Bradford Brinton, a machinery manufacturer, purchased the…
Occidental Hotel, Buffalo Wyoming
Buffalo, Wyoming is a city located at the base of the Big Horn Mountains between Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore with a population of approximately 4,585. It is 40 minutes from Sheridan, Wyoming and 4 hours from Cody, Wyoming. As far back as 1880, during the rip-roaring days of Wyoming, the Occidental Hotel located in Buffalo,…
Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Established in 2007 in Buffalo, Wyoming at the base of the Big Horn Mountains, this family-owned and operated full-service wool mill produces over 1000 pounds of wool from local Wyoming ranchers each year. Visit their website here and watch a video on how their mill was started. The environmentally-friendly facility is fully sustainable utilizing bio-degradable…
Pflueger “Medalist” Fly Reel
In 1881, Ernest F. Pflueger first started manufacturing fish hooks called “The Enterprise Manufacturing Company”. When his son E.A. Pflueger took over his father’s company, he expanded the business to all aspects of fishing tackle and gear. Recently, as I browsed through the isles of the “Best Out West” antique store located on North Main…
Winter Fly Fishing Tips to the Patient Angler
By Carl Conrad Fly fishing throughout the cold winter months takes a high level of tolerance. Unlike the spring and summer months, where trout have increased energy and healthy eating habits, patience, is the name of the game when fishing winter conditions. New to winter fly fishing, I visited Fly Shop of the BigHorns in…
Jackson, Wyoming
Jackson, Wyoming is located 1 hour from Dubois, Wyoming, 30 minutes from Grand Tetons National Park and 1 hour from Yellowstone National Park. Jackson is an high end “authentic Old West town” with a population of approximately 9,577 and an elevation of 6,237 feet, balloons in size during summer with tourists and winter with ski…
Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is south of Yellowstone National Park, 30 minutes to Jackson, WY, 1.5 hours from Dubois, Wyoming and 3 hours from Cody, Wyoming. This park spans 310,000 acres so a fraction smaller than is adjoining neighbor Yellowstone. Grand Tetons National Park was created in 1929 by President Calvin Coolidge with the Teton…
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is located 1 hour from Cody, Wyoming, 4 hours from Buffalo, Wyoming, 1 hour from Livingston, Montana. Yellowstone is 2,219,789 acres – nearly three times the size of Rhode Island or Delaware – spilling over from Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone was the world’s first national park created in 1872. Years prior,…
Dubois, Wyoming
Dubois, Wyoming is 1 hour from Jackson, Wyoming, 2 hours from the Grand Teton National Park and 4 hours south of Cody, Wyoming. The French word, Dubois means “voice”, was named after Fred Dubois, an Idaho senator at the time. The town is situated in Wind River Valley, “the valley of the warm winds” by the…
Buffalo, Wyoming
Buffalo, Wyoming is 6 hours north of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, 4 hours minutes from Cody, Wyoming, 30 minutes from Sheridan, Wyoming, 3 hours from Laramie, Wyoming and 4 hours from Yellowstone National Park. This town with a population of 4584 in northern Wyoming, is tucked into the rolling plains of the Bighorn Mountain foothills. Buffalo…