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Voted in Top Adventure Towns!
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HOWDY PARTNER,
| Enjoy the Bighorn
Scenic Byways
HWYs 14 and 14A |
An outdoor paradise, the Bighorn Mountains and Bighorn National Forest are filled with recreational opportunities including hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and backpacking, horseback riding, mountain biking, picnicking, sightseeing,photography, and in winter snowmobiling, skiing, and sledding.
Whether you’re looking for an exciting ATV trail or a stroll through quiet pines, the Bighorn National Forest offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities. Explore Medicine Wheel, the sacred Native American treasure, and Shell Falls the thundering heartbeat of the magnificent Bighorns! Montana.
Penny L. Becker, Executive Director
Sheridan Travel and Tourism
Sheridan, Wyoming – Voted #1 Western Town in America!
307-673-7120 -stt@sheridanwyoming.org
Voted in Top Adventure Towns!
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An outdoor paradise, the Bighorn Mountains and Bighorn National Forest are filled with recreational opportunities including hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and backpacking, horseback riding, mountain biking, picnicking, sightseeing, photography, and in winter snowmobiling, skiing, and sledding.
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Enjoy the Bighorn Scenic Byways
HWYs 14 and 14A |
The Bighorn National Forest, including the Cloud Peak Wilderness area, is unique and diverse. Within the Forest area, you can encounter grass prairies, evergreen forests, mountain meadows, rugged alpine peaks, dramatic canyons, as well as desert lands and cascading waterfalls – all within a day’s journey…
Whether you’re looking for an exciting ATV trail or a stroll through quiet pines, the Bighorn National Forest offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities. Explore Medicine Wheel, the sacred Native American treasure, and Shell Falls the thundering heartbeat of the magnificent Bighorns!
Sheridan, the King of Cowboy Towns, is in the foothills of the mountains, and also the Golf Capital of Wyoming, offering three championship golf courses. Get in a round while enjoying the crisp autumn air.
It is no wonder Sheridan was voted in the Top 100 Adventure Towns by National Geographic Adventure Online!
Penny L. Becker, Executive Director
Sheridan Travel and Tourism
Sheridan, Wyoming – Voted #1 Western Town in America!
307-673-7120 - stt@sheridanwyoming.org
Sheridan Getting International Attention
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Exciting does not get much better than the tourism public relations work over the past 5 weeks, bringing special visitors from three different countries and the U.S. to the ‘King of Cowboy Towns’!
Along with our outstanding area partners and the Wyoming Office of Tourism, Sheridan Travel and Tourism (STT) hosted Sheridan’s segment of the tour for the Australian film crew of six! This tour will result in bike tour documentaries for 2013’s programming on the Discovery Channel – the #1 international channel in the Asian-Pacific market. Sheridan will be showcased in one of 8 segments in their upcoming second season, and enjoyed by 132 million monthly viewers!
Then this week, STT and our partners hosted journalists for the development of three Primo magazine feature stories on Wyoming, reaching 260,000 people in Belgium and the Netherlands. This promotional trip also will result in avid bicyclists traveling the newly-created tour throuAlso that same week in August, a seasoned writer for Fox News and several guide books came to explore our tourism offerings! It was a pleasure to have my counterpart in Cody direct Gerrie to visit us in Sheridan for further feature opps. Partnerships are crucial, and my 14 years with STT has been all about building partnerships locally, state-wide, regionally and, as you see, also internationally!one of 8 segments in their upcoming second season, and enjoyed by 132 million monthly viewers! upcoming second season, and enjoyed by 132 million monthly viewers!
Then this week, STT and our partners hosted journalists for the development of three Primo magazine feature stories on Wyoming, reaching 260,000 people in Belgium and the Netherlands. This promotional trip also will result in avid bicyclists traveling the newly-created tour through Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota – mimicking the Tour de France. The trip’s two-fold purpose of the travel articles and bike tour escalates our ultimate goal of bringing in even more international paying guests.
And yet to come in September, is a familiarization trip from a Japanese tour representative who actively promotes U.S. “Fly & Drive” destinations.This connection will directly benefit us in the Asian markets and thus grow our tourism destination.
What does this public relations campaign do for the Sheridan area? Each new effort brings more visitors and of course more dollars spent in the area – and thus building on our economic stability and ability to reach more visitors, and coming full circle to satisfied visitors, with a healthier economy and community.
With over $86 million spent by our visitors in Sheridan County last year, we know the true value of happy customers!
STT’s $300,000 annual advertising campaign reached 13 million perspective visitors last year! And our public relations campaign reached 7.7 million. All of this has resulted in these, and many more successful article, television and internet features. Check them out at http://www.sheridanwyoming.org/news/publications/
Along with the international attention, it is also a pleasure to have the regional and area media dedicated to our tourism efforts, acknowledging and featuring tourism as the #2 industry in Wyoming.
Each week at the Information Center here in Sheridan, we reach out and serve dozens of bus tour groups (7-10 buses on our heaviest visitation days), with a predicted increase headed our way as more and more internationals travel the U.S. These tour groups fly into Denver, Salt Lake City, and LA, and then bring the international guests for their 1-7 day Wyoming stays! They too are coming to us from many countries, e.g., China (the largest Asian representation), Germany, and Russia.
We know through our many and varied tourism efforts, that Sheridan’s ‘destination’ status is growing each year . . . Our I-90 location mid-way between the two icon destinations of Yellowstone National Park and Mount Rushmore also benefits us directly.
Exciting ATV Trails or a Stroll Through Quiet Pines!
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The Big Horn Mountains extend from the plains and Great Basin area of Wyoming northward into south central Montana.
The Big Horn Mountains and Bighorn National Forest are an outdoor paradise filled with recreational opportunities including hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and backpacking, horseback riding, mountain biking, picnicking, sightseeing, photography, snowmobiling, skiing, and sledding.
The Bighorn National Forest, including the Cloud Peak Wilderness area, is unique and diverse.
Within the National Forest area, you can encounter grass prairies, evergreen forests, mountain meadows, rugged alpine peaks, dramatic canyons, arid desert lands and cascading waterfalls — all within a day’s journey.
Whether you’re looking for an exciting ATV trail or a stroll through quiet pines, the Bighorn National Forest offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities.
There are more than 1,000 miles of trails on the forest with a split between motorized and nonmotorized.
Most nonmotorized trails are shared by hikers, mountain bikers, and horse riders. The Cloud Peak Wilderness has several rugged trails open to hiker and horse use only.
Motorized trails are open to vehicles 50 inches or less in width.
There are many locations open to camping as well as 32 campgrounds on the forest and thousands of miles of roads open to many types of use.
Winter brings 450 miles of groomed and ungroomed snowmobile trails and 50 miles of ski and snowshoe trails.
Trails on the Bighorn National Forest provide access to remote desert canyons, wide-open meadows, and high alpine vistas.
Please visit one of our offices in Sheridan, Lovell or Buffalo for current conditions, maps, lists of recreation opportunities, and specific forest rules and regulations.
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Burgess Junction and Shell Falls visitor centers are open to the public.
Interested parties can also check the Bighorn National Forest Web site at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/bighorn/.
Note:
Bighorn National Forest maps are available at the Bighorn National Forest supervisor’s office and Tongue Ranger District in Sheridan.
The Cloud Peak Wilderness topographical map is available online at www.nationalgeographic.com/maps.
By Janet Donoho, The Sheridan Press 2010 Tour Guide
