Big Horn County is in Northwestern Wyoming, between

The Black Hills and Yellowstone National Park.

Contact information and emails:

Greybull: 877-765-2100 email: chamber@greybull.com

Lovell: 307-548-7552 email: lovell@tctwest.net

Greybull Visitor Center Hours: 11:00 – 5:00,

Monday through Friday.

(After 5p.m: Visitor Information available at:

Greybull Museum, 325 Greybull Avenue, until 8:00 p.m.)

Websites:

Greybull: www.greybull.com

Lovell: www.lovellchamber.com

Bicycling, motorcycling, hiking or climbing in the beautiful Big Horn Mountains.

Fishing in clear mountain streams, lakes and rivers or lowland lakes or rivers.

Geological and dinosaur study and exploration wonderland.

Natural, friendly, western hospitality in the towns throughout the Big Horn Basin.

Ever changing, hauntingly beautiful prairies, deserts, valleys, meadows and mountains.

Viewing wildlife, including antelope, moose, whitetail and mule deer, large and small birds,

wild horses and mustangs in their natural habitats.

Quiet, clear, starry nights. Unusual and colorful natural attractions.

Native American relics and petroglyphs. Western history – follow the Bridger Trail through the Big Horn Basin.

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite – between Shell and Greybull, off Hwy 14 on Red Gulch Back way, improved but not paved. Rock formations paint a colorful and varied picture. This BLM Interpretive Tracksite displays Jurassic-period stone Dinosaur foot prints. Educational & Scenic photo opportunities. Restrooms & picnic area only.

Shell Falls - East of Greybull (30 miles) on Hwy 14 in the Bighorn Mountains

Shell Creek falls over 3-billion year old granite at 3,600 gallons per second. Scenic view is world-class. Informative walking trails, breathtaking view of falls & canyon area below. Photo opportunity. Handicap access, restrooms, Forest Service Visitor Shop.

Greybull Museum – downtown Greybull, Free. 325 Greybull Avenue. Area history, geology, paleontology, rocks, souvenirs, traveler info and maps. Open until 8 p.m. summer.

Museum of Flight & Aerial Firefighting - One mile north of Greybull, US Hwy 14, 16, 20 Donation. Vintage aircraft display. Open Summer & Fall. Guided tours inside aircraft available.

Medicine Wheel Archaeological Site -Highway 14A, east of Lovell. This mysterious stone spoke /wheel structure is thought to have been used in ancient ceremonies. Around 80-feet in diameter, the Medicine Wheel has puzzled scholars for years. Probably constructed between 1200 and 1700 AD, it is still a sacred site for many Native Americans. Contact Lovell Chamber for more information.

Big Horn Quilts - Downtown Greybull. World famous online quilt store, physical location, with over 8000 bolts of material. (Opens early a.m. summers) Free weekly quilting bee.

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area - Highway 14A, east of Lovell. Straddling the border between Montana & Wyoming, the canyon offers forest, mountains, upland prairie, deep canyons, colorful valleys, lake & wetlands.

Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range - near Lovell on Highway 37

In 1968, 31,000 acres in the Pryor Mountains were set aside as a public range for the wild horse. For more than a century, the Pryor Mountains have been home to free-roaming, genetically unique bands of wild horses linked to the Spanish Conquistadors.

Medicine Lodge State Park – Near Hyattville. Early Native American petroglyphs and pictographs on cliff walls. Visitor Center, campground, fishing and stargazing. Part of Wyoming Game and Fish wildlife habitat since 1972, this was one of the Paintrock area’s earliest homesteads from the 1880’s.

Painted Desert Resort – Otto. Private Trout fishing in five stocked ponds. No fishing license required. Free camping for fishing guests! NEW: Home of Yellowstone Trout Jerky.

Additional sites to visit: Big Horn National Forest, Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Area-Lovell, Historic Hyart Theatre-Lovell, Caroline Lockhart Cattle Ranch-Lovell, Historic Community Log Building –Cowley, Chimney Rock & Devils Kitchen-Shell, Sheep Mountain Anticline - Greybull.

Big Horn Canyon Pryor Mtn. Mustangs Medicine Wheel

Recreation Area

(Greybull/Basin Area) Events: www.greybull.com , Greybull Chamber: 307-765-2100 or Basin Chamber: 307-568-3055.

Cowboy Carnival -Hyattville - May. Dog trials, horse races, quilt, photo and pie contests, children’s games, horseshoe tournament & more.

Pioneer Festival – Basin Fairgrounds – first weekend in June. Period costumes, vendors, cowboy poetry, council fire, Dutch Oven cooking, dining available.

Lilac Days-Basin: Third Saturday in June. Family fun in the park with children’s games, entertainment, Lilac Princess & Baby contests, & old fashioned ice cream social.

Days of ’49- Greybull: Second full weekend in June. A western founder’s day celebration, including parade, rodeo, street dance, tug-of-war and lots of Western fun.

July Celebration – Basin, Third or Fourth of July. Free Picnic in the Park, fireworks, melodrama.

Big Horn County Fair - Basin. Beginning of August. Rodeo, animal and craft exhibits, western food, western fun.

Heritage Farm Days – Basin. First weekend in September. Tractor Show, Threshing Day, picnic.

(Lovell Area) Events: www.lovellchamber.com or Lovell Chamber: 1-307-548-7552

Mustang Days-Lovell: Town celebration, last full week in June. Parade, rodeo, BBQ, demolition derby, Dancing Mustang Follies. Western hospitality and western fun at its best.

Community Day-Byron: First part of July. Enjoy fireworks, parade, cookout, & games.

Pioneer Day-Cowley: Town celebration third weekend in July. Events include picnic, games, & parade.

Drive from Greybull (Highway 14) up into the Big Horn Mountains to Burgess Junction and down the Big Horn Mountains (via Highway 14A to Lovell, Highway 310) back to Greybull. Several side trips are listed.

Begin at Greybull on Highway 14 headed east. a right turn onto the Red Gulch Back County Byway; an improved gravel road will lead 4.4 miles to the BLM Red Gulch Interpretive Dinosaur Tracksite. Interpretive materials are available. Back to Highway 14 and to Shell, population 50. There are many interesting historic buildings in this pioneer community. The wooden log Community Hall is one block east of Highway 14. Each of the huge logs used to build this were cut and brought down from the Big Horn Mountains by horse and cart. Look for mule and white tail deer in the fields beside the highway through Shell Valley and also for the red volcanic Chimney Rock. Through attractive Shell Canyon and up the switchbacks to Shell Falls (30 miles east of Greybull) and their Forest Service Visitor Center. There are many nice spots to stop and take photographs of flowers or wildlife all along this route. There are often moose seen eating water lilies in Owen Creek, about four miles before Burgess Junction.

At Burgess Junction, turn left onto Highway 14A. You are now on your way down the mountain. Watch for scenic vista pull offs. Use a lower driving gear. Two side trips: near the bottom is a turn to the Medicine Wheel Archaeological Site and also a turn onto Highway 37 north will take you to the Big Horn Canyon Recreation Area, stomping grounds of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horses and other varied wildlife. Highway 14A continues on to Lovell. At the junction of Highway 14A and Highway 310 in Lovell, you will see on your left (east) the highly interesting Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area Interpretive Visitor’s Center where you can access the Big Horn County Kiosk which provides information on more of the attractions available in the county. Side trips: If you continue into downtown friendly Lovell, also known as the ‘Rose City’, you will appreciate their community rose beds and two amazing murals (including one at Veteran’s Memorial Park).

Returning east/southeast on Highway 310, you will see the geologically famous Sheep Mountain Anticline. This multicolored mountain of porous limestone was somehow made topsy-turvy. Watch for a State-provided Sheep Mountain Interpretive pull off on the east side of the highway.

Continue to the junction with Highway 14, 16, 20. A left turn here (east) will take you by the Wyo. Dept. of Transportation Rest Area with a view of the vintage aircraft of the Museum of Flight & Aerial Firefighting directly beside it. When you drive down from the airport, you are back in Greybull.

Shell Falls Little Al, the dinosaur Dinosaur Tracks Wild Horses