WYOMING ●
VIEW
Jackson Hole combines
trendy restaurants, art galleries and
BUBBLING
Native American Culture
antique shops with such typically
MUD
Western attractions as archways
made of antlers, the lively Million At one time, Wyoming was home to more than a dozen nomadic Indian
VATS AND Dollar Cowboy Bar and tribes, including Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Crow, Gros Ventre, Flathead,
DRAMATIC
Silver Dollar Bar, stagecoach Sioux and Shoshone Indians. Today, Wyoming is the site of
rides and a nightly Old West “shoot- the Wind River Reservation, where
COLUMNS out.” Soar up 4,139 feet via a new some 11,000 Shoshone and Arapaho
OF WATER
aerial tram to spectacular mountain reside. Native
and valley views from the top of American
SPEWING Rendezvous Peak in Teton heritage
100 FEET
Village. In addition to exhilarating is also
downhill skiing from late November preserved
until the beginning of April, there are through
sleigh rides, snow cat and heli-skiing local powwows
Lower Falls, which dramatically plus dog sledding, cross-country held in summer
plummets 308 feet (nearly twice skiing and snow-shoeing – where you on the Wind River
as high as Niagara Falls) into the can stay in a yurt (a round, winterized Reservation, or
spectacular Yellowstone River tent complete with wood fl oors and the Plains Indian
canyon – or serenely glide in a a wood-burning stove). Summer is Museum Powwow
boat on Yellowstone Lake, high season – when rafting, hiking, held each year in the
the largest alpine lake in North fi shing and climbing replace winter Robbie Powwow
America. Hike or horseback ride to sports – while wildlife watching is a Garden at the Buffalo
hundreds of secluded places – or year-round activity in Jackson Hole. Bill Historical Center in
just sit back and enjoy the scenery Directly south is Fossil Butte Cody.
from a 1930s-style, open-topped National Monument, where
Yellow Bus. As there’s far too every layer of earth exposes secrets
much to see in a day – or even a of an ancient tropical landscape;
week – consider overnighting in the
magnifi cent 1904 Old Faithful
Inn, sometimes referred to as
“the world’s largest log cabin,” or in
other park lodging or campgrounds.
Although many of Yellowstone’s
visitors prefer to come in the
summer, the park is also magical
in the autumn when the foliage is
at its most spectacular and wildlife
viewing is in its prime; in the spring
when everything is in bloom and
the baby animals appear; and even
in the winter, when the park’s
silent, snowbound world can be
explored by snowmobile and snow
coach tours, and there’s cross-
country skiing, ice skating and
snow-shoeing.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURE
To the south, Grand Teton
National Park is also a
destination for all seasons. Visitors
can not only hike and climb the
towering Teton Mountains,
but also swim, fi sh and boat in
16-mile-long Jackson Lake,
hike through the dramatic
Cascade Canyon and take fl oat
trips down the Snake River.
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