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The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains that extend 100 miles (160 km) [2] from northern Colorado into southern Wyoming. The northern extent of this range is the sub-range the Snowy Range . [ 3 ]
Medicine Bow Peak (12,018 ft (3,663 m)) is the highest peak in the Snowy Range, a part of the Medicine Bow Mountains, about 35 miles (56 km) west of Laramie, Wyoming. It lies within Medicine Bow National Forest and is the highest point in southern Wyoming.
Areas of interest include the Snowy Range where the highest peak is Medicine Bow Peak at 12,013 feet (3,662 m) and is visible from Snowy Range Pass, 10,847 ft (3,306 m), on Wyoming highway 130. The Encampment River , Huston Park , Savage Run and Platte River Wildernesses are all located within the Medicine Bow portion of the National Forest.
WYO 130 heads east across the Medicine Bow Mountains (or Snowy Range Mountains) and through part of the Medicine Bow National Forest, and passes through Centennial at around 69 miles (111 km). Six miles east of Centennial, 130 intersects Wyoming Highway 11 which provides a route to Albany. From there Highway 130 travels 17 miles (27 km) in a ...
The Medicine Bow Rail–Trail is a mountain bike trail, 21 miles (34 km) long, built between 2005 and 2007 on the bed of an abandoned railroad southwest of Laramie. It starts near the town of Albany and Lake Owen and extends south to the town of Mountain Home near the Wyoming–Colorado border.
The 15 mountain peaks of the Southern Rocky Mountains with at least 50 kilometers of topographic isolation and 500 meters of topographic prominence; Rank Mountain Peak State Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation; 1 Mount Elbert [5] [6] [a] [b] Colorado: Sawatch Range: 14,440 ft 4401 m: 9,093 ft 2772 m: 671 mi 1,079 km 2 Blanca Peak [26 ...
Snowy Range Ski and Recreation Area is a small ski area in southeastern Wyoming, located about five miles from the town of Centennial in Medicine Bow National Forest. At 32 miles away, it is the closest ski area to Laramie , home of the University of Wyoming .
It rises in the Snowy Range, flowing out of the North Gap Lake, in southeastern Carbon County.It flows north, past Elk Mountain, then northeast, then northwest past the town of Medicine Bow and between the Shirley Mountains to the north and the Medicine Bow Mountains to the south.