Reservoir at Buffalo Bill State Park Fred Pflughoft
Six miles west of Cody is Buffalo Bill State Park and the new Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center. Surrounded by fantastic, mountainous scenery, the park offers camping, picnicking, excellent trout fishing and is Wyoming’s premier wind surfing reservoir. The quarter-mile Trout Creek Nature Trail is located near the group camping area in the North Fork Campground. The handicapped-accessible Eagle Point Trail is located in the Eagle Point Day Use Area. The visitor center features interpretive exhibits, audio/visual presentations, touch-screen computers and a staff to help visitors enjoy the recreational opportunities, scenic wonders, and the park’s prehistoric and historic features.
Writer M. Scott Momaday once waxed poetic about Devils Tower, proclaiming "There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man." President Theodore Roosevelt showed his love of preservation (and an economy of words) when he declared this "lofty and isolated rock" a national monument 100 years ago. Thirty years ago, Steven Spielberg celebrated the monument's otherworldly appeal by choosing Devils Tower as the UFO landing site in his movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. read more
The landscape of the Bighorn National Forest, in north-central Wyoming, ranges from lush grasslands, crystalline lakes and rolling hills to mountain meadows, sheer mountain walls and valleys carved by massive and ancient glaciers. read more
