Wyoming Official Travel Guide - 2025 Wyoming Official Travel Guide

Black to Yellow Road Trip

2024-10-23 10:15:56

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Stories of the American West echo throughout the Black to Yellow region, home to kaleidoscopic landscapes and iconic sights. During your journey from northeast Wyoming’s Black Hills to Yellowstone, discover geologic marvels, dense evergreen forests and sprawling prairielands. Step into the past to meet larger-than-life characters like Buffalo Bill Cody and find out what life was like in Wyoming during different periods in history.

THE BRINTON MUSEUM WYOMING OFFICE OF TOURISM/KEITH TURBITT

ALADDIN GENERAL STORE WYOMING OFFICE OF TOURISM.

ACCESSIBLE NATURAL AREAS

Visitor Centers

• Beulah

• Buffalo

• Cody

• Gillette

• Greybull

• Meeteetse

• Powell

• Sheridan

• Wright

State Parks & National Forests

• Bighorn National Forest

• Black Hills National Forest

• Buffalo Bill State Park

• Keyhole State Park

• Shoshone National Forest

STARTING POINT: WYOMING-SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER, NEAR NORTHEAST WYOMING WELCOME CENTER, BEULAH

A Vore Buffalo Jump | near Beulah

Stop by the small interpretive center to gain insight into how this natural sinkhole was used as a buffalo jump (or trap) from about 1500 to 1800 A.D. by at least five different Native American tribes.

B aladdin General store | Aladdin

Groceries, fishing supplies, Western wear and antiques are just a few things you’ll find at this gem, a general store built in 1896. Be sure to pick up some old-fashioned candy or a sarsaparilla.

C devils Tower National Monument near Hulett & Sundance

Hike trails around America’s first national monument, a 1,267-foot striated rock tower that gained fame as the filming site for Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Learn more about the monument on p. 58.

D Gillette’s Main street | Gillette

Walk Gillette’s thriving Main Street for its homegrown shops, delicious local restaurants and a handy visitor center all in the heart of town. Stop at The Ice Cream Cafe for a hand-scooped cone.

E Crazy Woman Canyon | near Buffalo

Drive a narrow dirt road through a winding canyon for idyllic, hidden-away beauty. You’ll find yourself surrounded by thick forests and the rocky Bighorn Mountains at every bend.

F Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum | Buffalo

Browse the impressive personal collection of Jim Gatchell, a local pharmacist and historian who served settlers, frontiersmen and members of the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne tribes in the early 1900s.

G The Brinton Museum | near Sheridan

See Wyoming history through the lens of The Brinton, an arts-focused ranch museum that tells the story of Wyoming across the centuries.

h Washakie Museum & Cultural Center | Worland

Exhibits on paleontology, archaeology and early settlements portray the relationship between the historical inhabitants of the Bighorn Basin and their environment.

I Bighorn Canyon National Recreation area | near Lovell

Highway 37, the recreation area’s south entrance, is a scenic road that passes through the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range on the way to spectacular Devil Canyon Overlook. Hike for views of Bighorn Lake, wild horses and the massive multicolored canyon walls. Learn more on p. 57.

J Meeteetse Chocolatier | Meeteetse

Tim Kellogg, a cowboy turned chocolatier, makes all of Meeteetse’s artisan confections from scratch. Choose from exquisite truffle flavors like prickly pear cactus and Wyoming Whiskey.

K Buffalo Bill Center of the West | Cody

Immerse yourself in natural and cultural history and art at five institutions in one complex: the Plains Indian, Buffalo Bill, Draper Natural History, Whitney Western Art and Cody Firearms museums.

END POINT: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK EAST ENTRANCE