Yellowstone needs no introduction!  America's First National Park should be a bucket list item for everyone!  Just 2 hours outside the East Entrance to the Park and 3 hours to Cooke City and the NE entrance to the Park, you can easily get to the park from the campground.  Many of our guests prefer the quiet of the Big Horn Basin as their base camp, venturing out to the Park on day trips, or stopping here before a scheduled camping trip in the park.  Out west, you will see that drives are longer, but that doesn't mean they are without beauty! Your Trip to Yellowstone will take you either through the Shoshone National Forest, over Avalanche Pass and into the park or drive Chief Joseph Highway and enter the park from the NE.

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Greybull lies at the base of the Big Horn Mountains in northern WY.  The Big Horns quietly surprise; rising abruptly 8,000' up from the Plains, greeting East/West travelers from Yellowstone to Mt. Rushmore like a beautiful wall.  Running 200 miles north though the Great Plains, they peak over 13,000', and are home to wildlife like moose, elk, mule deer, black bear, and Big Horn Sheep  If Mother Nature is on your list, the Big Horns offer so many choices. Just getting in is memorable.  Good roads weave through a crack in the wall, into a canyon, with walls towering hundreds of feet above, until the road takes you so far in, the canyon looks small. Their absolute rugged beauty is both calming and exhilarating.  Once in, stop at Shell Falls, hike a trail, visit the Medicine Wheel or find a lake or stream and maybe a fish or two. Go fast or slow - your choice.  The Big Horn Mountains offer an uncrowded year-round paradise for visitors and area residents alike. You won't forget them.

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This national park is a little known gem, created after the construction of the Yellowtail Dam in the 1960's.  Here you are treated to breathtaking views of the Big Horn Canyon from the Devils Canyon overlook.  Boat rentals and boat tours are available to take you into the Canyon during the summer months.  Trout fishing at the lake is popular, as are the hiking trails, and overlooks that highlight the unmarred natural beauty of the park.  Here you feel the old west.  You see the immense obstacles our ancestors faced.  Here you are free from the sights and sounds of modern life.  The night sky is virtually free of light pollution, opening the Universe up to you.   The Canyon is also home to the largest herd of wild horses in the US, who share the area with Big Horn Sheep, deer and soaring birds of prey.  This, the third largest canyon in the US, is virtually unknown, but never forgotten.  Of Note: The park is located in both WY and MT and they are not directly connected.

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The Red Gultch Dinosaur track site lies just 15 miles outside of town and is the largest tracksite in Wyoming.  The prints were discovered in 1997. There are hundreds of dinosaur tracks at the site, which are believed to have been laid down at the edge of the sea that covered this area during the Middle Jurassic Period, 160-180 million years ago.  Afterwards, consider a stop at the GeoScience Center on Main Street, where you and the kids can learn more about the plants, animals and dinosaur fossils that are abundant here.  The GeoScience Center also has many local specimens and knowledgeable staff to answer your questions. 
 
The drive out to the site is also breathtakingly beautiful.  Even at the height of our summer season, it is possible to drive to the site and back and never see another person!  

Directions:  8 miles East of Greybull off Hwy 14, take the Red Gultch/Alkali National Back country Byway (a pretty good two track dirt road) for about 5 miles.  There are restrooms at the site but no other services.

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