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The Medicine Wheel in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming.. The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark (Crow: Annáshisee, lit. ' Large campsite '; [3] formerly known as the Bighorn Medicine Wheel) is a medicine wheel located in the Bighorn National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
The area contains 9 miles of the Big Horn Mountains, which form the center core of the wilderness. The mountains are surrounded by desert plains. [2] The most prominent peak is Big Horn Mountain, which rises 1,800 feet (550 m) above the desert, [3] other peaks include Burnt Mountain and Little Horn Peak. Activities include hiking, camping, rock ...
Big Sheep Creek Back Country Byway: Montana: 51 82 Big Sheep Creek Road and I-15 near Dell: Medicine Lodge Road and MT S-324 near Grant: An isolated route through the canyons and valleys of the Tendoy Mountains of southwestern Montana. The road is mostly two-lane gravel, and provides many opportunities for viewing bighorns, elk, and trout.
The Bighorn National Forest was established as the Big Horn National Forest on 22 February 1897, and encompasses 1,198,080 acres. On 1 July 1908 the name was changed to the Bighorn National Forest through an executive order. In September 1981 the national forest had 1,115,171 acres, with 1,107,670 of those acres being National Forest land. [7]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
The Bighorn Mountains (Crow: Basawaxaawúua, lit. 'our mountains' or Iisaxpúatahchee Isawaxaawúua, 'bighorn sheep's mountains' [1]) are a mountain range in northern Wyoming and southern Montana in the United States, forming a northwest-trending spur from the Rocky Mountains extending approximately 200 mi (320 km) northward on the Great Plains.
One campground, Medicine Creek, is accessible by boating or hiking in. Medicine Creek Campground has five sites and is located in the South District. The two remaining campgrounds are only accessible by boat and are located in the North District. Black Canyon Campground, with seventeen sites, is located five miles from the Ok-A-Beh Marina.
Entirely within Bighorn National Forest, [2] the wilderness was established in 1984 in an effort to preserve the wildest section of the Bighorn Mountains. The wilderness has the highest peaks in the Bighorn Mountains including Cloud Peak and Black Tooth Mountain, as well as Cloud Peak Glacier, the only remaining active glacier in the Bighorn ...