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The highest peaks within the Bighorns are located in Wyoming in the 1,120,000-acre (4,500 km 2) Bighorn National Forest. Two peaks rise to over 13,000 ft: Cloud Peak (13,175 ft, 4,016 m) and Black Tooth Mountain (13,005 ft, 3,964 m). There are a dozen more that rise to over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). From the east the mountains present a vertical ...
UTC-6 (MDT) Area code. 307. FIPS code. 56-51357 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1877176 [2] Meadowlark Lake is an unincorporated community in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 8 at the 2000 census, when it was a Census-designated place (CDP).
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]
Range. Bighorn Mountains. Coordinates. 44°08′59″N 107°04′46″W / 44.14972°N 107.07944°W / 44.14972; -107.07944. The Powder River Pass sign. Powder River Pass (el. 9,666 ft or 2,946 m) is a mountain pass in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming traversed by U.S. Highway 16 (US 16). [1] Also known as Muddy Pass, it is the ...
Big Horn County was created by the legislature of Wyoming Territory in March 1890, and was organized in 1897; its area was annexed from Fremont, Johnson, and Sheridan counties. [3] Big Horn County was named for the Big Horn Mountains which form its eastern boundary. [4] Originally, the county included the entire Big Horn Basin, but in 1909 Park ...
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. It is one of over 420 sites managed by the U.S. National Park Service.
There are at least 13 named trails in Big Horn County, Wyoming according to the U.S. Geological Survey, Board of Geographic Names. A trail is defined as: "Route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail)."
Bighorn River. The Bighorn River is a tributary of the Yellowstone, approximately 461 miles (742 km) long, in the states of Wyoming and Montana in the western United States. The river was named in 1805 by fur trader François Larocque for the bighorn sheep he saw along its banks as he explored the Yellowstone.