Grand Teton National Park Wyoming Travel & Tourism
When it comes to national parks, forests and monuments, Wyoming boasts a number of firsts, including America’s first national monument, Devils Tower, a place that’s popular with hikers and climbers.
Wyoming is also home to the nation’s first national forest, Shoshone National Forest, which remains one of the largest national forests in the country. Here, visitors might see elk, moose, deer, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, antelope and bears.
Yellowstone National Park is the world’s first national park, and it’s America’s second largest. Although the park is home to hundreds of species of birds, game fish and mammals, perhaps Yellowstone’s most famous inhabitants are its black and grizzly bears.
Spectacular mountain views, rushing trout streams and sky-scraping aspen, spruce and fir trees provide a stunning backdrop at Wyoming’s national parks, forests and monuments.
Look through each of Wyoming's distinctive national parks and peruse our National Park Listings for more details about the parks.
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
This is a land that time forgot. From Yellowtail Dam across the Bighorn River in Montana to the 47 river-miles of Bighorn Lake, the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area rewards the visitor with spectacular scenery. more...
Bighorn National Forest
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. more...
Black Hills National Forest
The Black Hills National Forest has a tradition extending back to its original owners, the Sioux Indians. From the plains, which were a familiar part of their nomadic life, the Sioux looked toward the dark timbered slopes with awe and respect. more...
Bridger-Teton National Forest
The Bridger and Teton national forests merged and became one national forest, bringing nearly 3.5 million acres and the present six ranger districts under one supervisory headquarters. more...
Devils Tower National Monument
The nation’s first national monument, Devils Tower, looms prominently over the Belle Fourche River in a place where the pine forests of the Black Hills merge with the grasslands of the rolling plains. more...
Flaming Gorge Recreation Area
Flaming Gorge has become nationally known as the "fishing hot spot" of America. The reservoir offers quality trout fishing year-round. A fishing license from either Wyoming or Utah is required, and a special-use stamp is available for fishing both states.
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Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Fort Laramie, the first garrisoned post in Wyoming, is located adjacent to the town of Fort Laramie near the confluence of the North Platte and Laramie rivers. more...
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte, which contains 8,198 acres, has the largest deposit of freshwater fish fossils in the Western hemisphere – rivaled only by a similar deposit in Germany. more...
Grand Teton National Park
An ethereal mountain landscape where jagged peaks tower more than a mile above the Jackson Hole valley, Grand Teton National Park is located in northwestern Wyoming just south of Yellowstone National Park and just north of the town of Jackson. more...
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests
Truly a “land of many uses,” the Laramie Peak District of the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest supports an active timber harvesting industry in addition to providing livestock forage, watershed and outdoor recreation benefits. more...
Shoshone National Forest
Shoshone National Forest, the nation’s first national forest, was originally known as the Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve. more...
Thunder Basin National Grassland
The Thunder Basin National Grassland, located in northeastern Wyoming, is in the Powder River Basin, between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills. Activities include hiking, hunting, fishing and bird and wildlife viewing. more...
Yellowstone National Park
In the world's first national park, the land, wildlife, vistas and famous attractions, including Old Faithful, are as wondrous as ever. more...
Skiing at Snowy Range is simplicity itself. It is only a ski area – not a resort with high-speed lifts, ski-in/ski-out lodging, pay parking or other trappings of big-league resorthood. read more
Shoshone National Forest, the nation’s first national forest, was originally known as the Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve. read more
