Wyoming Hiking

Also known as "Bass Lake". Fishing year-round with Wyoming State license. Fish species include trout, bass, perch, ling, bluegill, green sunfish, and crappie. Good access via shoreline roads. Approximately 80 surface acres. Available services include: picnic/camp shelters, restrooms, boat ramp, and primitive camping. No drinking water. Other activities include swimming, hiking, watchable wildlife, waterfowl, and big game hunting in season with Wyoming State hunting license.Lake Cameahwait is a feature of the Pick Sloan Missouri River Project Riverton Unit .Nearby attractions are the grave of Sacajawea and the World's Largest Mineral Hot Springs. Wyoming Game and Fish Department, 2055 Missouri Valley Rd., Pavillion, WY 82523 at 307.856.3007. ... [Read More]

Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (National Park Service)
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area is a lesser known treasure waiting to be discovered. It boasts breath-taking scenery, countless varieties of wildlife, and abundant recreational opportunities, such as boating, fishing, ice fishing, camping, and hiking. Bighorn Canyon offers visitors what few other National Park areas can, that of solitude, serenity, and beauty. In the midst of our chaotic world, this is a truly unique quality. ... [Read More]

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WHEREAS, Wyoming has over 8,000 miles of trails, which offer diverse and unsurpassed opportunities for outdoor recreation, including hiking, backpacking, jogging, bicycling, mountain biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, motorcycling, all-terrain vehicle riding, canoeing, kayaking, and river rafting, as well as tracing historical trail routes. Trails Day will be observed across Wyoming, from the Tetons to the prairies, with volunteer projects to create, maintain, and promote trails. ... [Read More]

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Buffalo Bill Dam , of the Shoshone Project , constructed 1905-1910 on the Shoshone River about 6 miles upstream from Cody, Wyoming, is one of the first high concrete dams built in the United States. It is a feature of the Shoshone Project, one of Reclamation's earliest irrigation projects. Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody made the area now occupied by the Shoshone Project, famous in the early days of the West. He and his companions were the first to perceive the possibilities of turning the sagebrush flats of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin into a land of agricultural abundance through irrigation. The main historic site is Buffalo Bill Dam, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a major engineering achievement. A needle valve, ball valve, and a cableway winch once used at the dam are on display in the parking lot west of the dam. Fishing open year-round. Wyoming State fishing license required. Fish species (coldwater) include rainbow trout, brown trout, lake tro ... [Read More]

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Ocean Lake is a feature of the PSMBP Riverton Unit . Fishing year-round with Wyoming State license. The reservoir is famous for its crappie and ling fishing. Fish species include trout, walleye, perch, bluegill, green sunfish, and crappie. Limited access via shoreline roads. Several boat ramps located at developed recreation sites around lake. Approximately 6,000 surface acres. Available services include campsites with tables, windscreens and shelters, group picnic shelters, restrooms, boat ramps, and primitive camping. No drinking water. Other activities include big game and waterfowl hunting in season with Wyoming State hunting license, hiking, watchable wildlife, and horseback riding. ... [Read More]

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (National Park Service)
Silver Lake Park - Rte. 13 and Bath Rd, Bristol, PA - Includes playgrounds, picnicing, boating, fishing, hiking, ice skating, and a Nature center which houses a museum with gift shop, amphitheatre and butterfly garden. (215)785-1177 ...

Ralph Stover State Park - Pipersville, PA - 45-acre park along Tohickon Creek offering fishing, hiking, canoeing, and picnicing. (610)982-5560 or (800) 63-PARKS ...

The region contains premier recreational resources through numerous high quality natural areas to extensive open space. Included within the region are three state parks and thousands of acres of state game lands. At the center of this section is the Lehigh Gorge, a National Natural Landmark. Cut into the rock of the Pocono Plateau by the Lehigh River, the 30-mile gorge has a dramatic landscape of steep slopes covered in hemlock and rhododendron, rocky scarpments and side streams that end in waterfalls. The twisting, fast-running, rocky Lehigh and many of its tributaries are designated state scenic rivers. The viewshed and gorge are protected because Lehigh Gorge State Park is a designated state park and is regarded as one of the most popular areas for whitewater rafting and fishing. Hiking and mountain biking are popular on the 26 miles of abandoned right-of-way of the old Lehigh & Susquehanna, Lehigh Valley and Central New Jersey Railroads. "Outfitters" put thousands of rafters on t ... [Read More]

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Thousands of miles of trails that are as diverse as the land itself criss-cross America’s recreational areas. Hiking trails range from steep technical climbs over rocks and iron ladders, to relatively flat lakeshore paths blanketed in pine needles. Hiking is an easy, low cost way to discover the great outdoors, and there are hiking opportunities for almost anyone at any age and ability level. ...

hiking or walking, walking for pleasure, day hiking, running or jogging ... [Read More]