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The Girl Scout National Center West was located just outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, among the Big Horn Mountains, [1] near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon. [2] A portion of the center was one of the largest encampments in the world at 15,400 acres (62 km 2) (14,600 acres (59 km 2) also reported) of rugged wilderness near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon near the Bighorn National Forest.
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 ...
Wild horses in the Pryor Mountains along the Wyoming-Montana border Bighorn Lake in the South District. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a national recreation area established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, following the construction of the Yellowtail Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation.
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.
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 ...
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. [7] I
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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]