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During the day, speed across alpine meadows on a snowmobile, take a leisurely snowshoe trek on mountain trails, or try a bit of ice fishing with a local outfitter. Just outside of town, the majestic Bighorn Mountains offer endless snow adventures during the winter months.

Name your winter sport in Sheridan where the majestic Big Horn Mountains set the scene and offer a winter wonderland of trails and vast open meadows.

Here winter sports enthusiasts find an abundance of opportunities for invigorating outdoor recreation including boon docking, alpine and cross-country skiing, and snowboarding in an ideal mountain setting. It’s a beautiful place to enjoy snow sports and activities, as well as to revel in the magnificent scenery.

Sheridan, nestled in the foothills of the majestic Big Horn Mountains, is home base, while the Big Horns provide the winter wonderland!  Sled heads ride the range by snowmobile on 218 miles of Top 15 rated trails in the Big Horn Mountain Trail System.  Springtime provides excellent snow conditions with fresh powder, deep snow, warm days, and riding into April. The nearest trailhead is located just 15 miles south of Sheridan, with 100% “real” dry powdery snow. Cross-country trails are abundant in wide-open meadows and on telemark hillsides.

Deep snows, spectacular scenery and the vastness of the West are why people ride the Big Horns. Riding opportunities are both challenging and endless in these rugged and inviting mountains, offering some of the most enticing snowmobiling in the world. During the winter it’s easy to find fresh untracked powder and steep rolling hills to explore, with a diverse trail system that provides easy access.

Within nearly one million acres of national forest, the Big Horns also provide almost 50 miles of ungroomed trails, countless miles of cross-country exploring, and exciting off-trail opportunities. Limited commercial development keeps the crowds down both on and off the trails, while first-class lodging is available just a short drive away in Sheridan.  In the historic downtown, dining runs the gamut from down-home to gourmet, and specialty shopping ranges from antiques and cowboy memorabilia to intriguing boutiques and galleries.

For cross country enthusiasts, the area offers fantastic skiing with untouched powder.  Groomed and ungroomed trails criss-cross the Big Horns.  Here skiers may hit the trails and escape into the inviting quiet of the forest.

In addition, Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains offer a bevy of outdoor recreation opportunities including ice-skating and snowshoeing. Children and adults both enjoy skating at Whitney Community Ice Rink. The area also offers other winter outdoor activities including ice fishing and wildlife viewing. Wildlife is as abundant as the snow, with large animals such as moose, elk, and deer viewed throughout the winter months.

Enjoy exploring The Sheridan Channel’s “real”showcase of what the Sheridan area has to offer to visitors with the many and varied tourism attractions in the King of Cowboy Towns!

The Sheridan Channel is dedicated to providing viewers with information about current events, activities and attractions available in Sheridan, Wyoming. The channel really focuses the spotlight on the many rich experiences awaiting visitors, as well as area residents who haven’t yet experienced these attractions offered.

Here is a sampling of the videos pertaining to a variety of popular activity interests located throughout the Sheridan Travel and Tourism’s Web Site in the videos section under ‘Additional Information‘:

To further promote our community, The Sheridan Channel was launched by the City of Sheridan, Optimum and Wayward Films – along with Sheridan Travel and Tourism, the Sheridan County Chamber, Downtown Association, and Forward Sheridan.

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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.

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.

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Penny L. Becker, Executive Director

Sheridan Travel and Tourism

Sheridan, Wyoming – Voted #1 Western Town in America!

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Come winter, play in Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains. Sheridan, WY was voted the #3 in Top Towns for Outdoorsmen in America! Name your winter sport in Sheridan where the majestic Big Horn Mountains set the scene and offer a winter wonderland of trails and vast open meadows.
Here winter sports enthusiasts find an abundance of opportunities for invigorating outdoor recreation including boon docking, alpine and cross-country skiing, and snowboarding in an ideal mountain setting. It’s a beautiful place to enjoy snow sports and activities, as well as to revel in the magnificent scenery.

Sheridan, nestled in the foothills of the majestic Big Horn Mountains, is home base, while the Big Horns provide the winter wonderland!  Sled heads ride the range by snowmobile on 218 miles of Top 15 rated trails in the Big Horn Mountain Trail System.  Springtime provides excellent snow conditions with fresh powder, deep snow, warm days, and riding into April. The nearest trailhead is located just 15 miles south of Sheridan, with 100% “real” dry powdery snow. Cross-country trails are abundant in wide-open meadows and on telemark hillsides.

Deep snows, spectacular scenery and the vastness of the West are why people ride the Big Horns. Riding opportunities are both challenging and endless in these rugged and inviting mountains, offering some of the most enticing snowmobiling in the world. During the winter it’s easy to find fresh untracked powder and steep rolling hills to explore, with a diverse trail system that provides easy access.

Within nearly one million acres of national forest, the Big Horns also provide almost 50 miles of ungroomed trails, countless miles of cross-country exploring, and exciting off-trail opportunities. Limited commercial development keeps the crowds down both on and off the trails, while first-class lodging is available just a short drive away in Sheridan.  In the historic downtown, dining runs the gamut from down-home to gourmet, and specialty shopping ranges from antiques and cowboy memorabilia to intriguing boutiques and galleries.

For cross country enthusiasts, the area offers fantastic skiing with untouched powder.  Groomed and ungroomed trails criss-cross the Big Horns.  Here skiers may hit the trails and escape into the inviting quiet of the forest.

In addition, Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains offer a bevy of outdoor recreation opportunities including ice-skating and snowshoeing. Children and adults both enjoy skating at Whitney Community Ice Rink. The area also offers other winter outdoor activities including ice fishing and wildlife viewing. Wildlife is as abundant as the snow, with large animals such as moose, elk, and deer viewed throughout the winter months.

While in Sheridan, enjoy the evening entertainment, at fun restaurants, specialty shops, a movie, or a live performance at the WYO Theater – all in the original #1 Western Town in America!  Embrace the West with a Downtown Walking Tour or at the legendary Mint Bar. Lodging options offering value and comfort at affordable prices are available to groups of any size. If in need, just ask, while experiencing the friendly hospitality here in Sheridan, Wyoming – The West at its Best!

Conveniently adjacent to Interstate 90 in north central Wyoming, Sheridan is 203 miles east of Yellowstone National Park, 240 miles west of Mt. Rushmore National Monument, and 125 miles southeast of Billings, Montana.  Explore winter sports, adventures, snow reports, trail maps and lodging.

Sheridan, WY was voted the #3 in Top Towns for Outdoorsmen in America! Name your winter sport in Sheridan where the majestic Big Horn Mountains set the scene and offer a winter wonderland of trails and vast open meadows.

Here winter sports enthusiasts find an abundance of opportunities for invigorating outdoor recreation including boon docking, alpine and cross-country skiing, and snowboarding in an ideal mountain setting. It’s a beautiful place to enjoy snow sports and activities, as well as to revel in the magnificent scenery.

Sheridan, nestled in the foothills of the majestic Big Horn Mountains, is home base, while the Big Horns provide the winter wonderland!  Sled heads ride the range by snowmobile on 218 miles of Top 15 rated trails in the Big Horn Mountain Trail System.  Springtime provides excellent snow conditions with fresh powder, deep snow, warm days, and riding into April. The nearest trailhead is located just 15 miles south of Sheridan, with 100% “real” dry powdery snow. Cross-country trails are abundant in wide-open meadows and on telemark hillsides.

Deep snows, spectacular scenery and the vastness of the West are why people ride the Big Horns. Riding opportunities are both challenging and endless in these rugged and inviting mountains, offering some of the most enticing snowmobiling in the world. During the winter it’s easy to find fresh untracked powder and steep rolling hills to explore, with a diverse trail system that provides easy access.

Within nearly one million acres of national forest, the Big Horns also provide almost 50 miles of ungroomed trails, countless miles of cross-country exploring, and exciting off-trail opportunities. Limited commercial development keeps the crowds down both on and off the trails, while first-class lodging is available just a short drive away in Sheridan.  In the historic downtown, dining runs the gamut from down-home to gourmet, and specialty shopping ranges from antiques and cowboy memorabilia to intriguing boutiques and galleries.

For cross country enthusiasts, the area offers fantastic skiing with untouched powder.  Groomed and ungroomed trails criss-cross the Big Horns.  Here skiers may hit the trails and escape into the inviting quiet of the forest. 

In addition, Sheridan and the Big Horn Mountains offer a bevy of outdoor recreation opportunities including ice-skating and snowshoeing. Children and adults both enjoy skating at Whitney Community Ice Rink. The area also offers other winter outdoor activities including ice fishing and wildlife viewing. Wildlife is as abundant as the snow, with large animals such as moose, elk, and deer viewed throughout the winter months.

While in Sheridan, enjoy the evening entertainment, at fun restaurants, specialty shops, a movie, or a live performance at the WYO Theater – all in the original #1 Western Town in America!  Embrace the West with a Downtown Walking Tour or at the legendary Mint Bar. Lodging options offering value and comfort at affordable prices are available to groups of any size. If in need, just ask, while experiencing the friendly hospitality here in Sheridan, Wyoming – The West at its Best!

Conveniently adjacent to Interstate 90 in north central Wyoming, Sheridan is 203 miles east of Yellowstone National Park, 240 miles west of Mt. Rushmore National Monument, and 125 miles southeast of Billings, Montana.  Explore winter sports, adventures, snow reports, trail maps and lodging.

Relax and enjoy this wonderful place . . . The nearby majestic Big Horn Mountains offer a year-round paradise for outdoor adventurers, ranging from blue ribbon fishing to wildlife and flora viewing! Or catch a hunting season in these golden hills . . .

Sheridan is conveniently located in the foothills of the Big Horns where Scenic By-ways 14 and 14A meander through the Mountains, providing vehicle turnouts to relax, enjoy abundant wildlife – for photography or hunting, as well as world-class views. Highway 14 beckons you into beautiful Shell Canyon with must-stops at the cascading falls and self-guided nature paths. Highway 14A, accessible from May through October, provides incredible views, enlivened by moose in the wild and access to the sacred Medicine Wheel.

Anglers Paradise – With 106 million acres of Bighorn National Forest encompassing 180,000 acres of wilderness, encounter tranquil, secluded streams and some of the finest fishing around. Those wild waters, along with trophy reservoirs and private streams and ponds, provide ample opportunity to test your mettle against a variety of trout. Maybe cast the broad Tongue River or the mighty Big Horn, just a few miles away.

Anglers have diverse opportunities while fishing northeast Wyoming. Game fish species vary from northern pike and walleye in reservoirs to golden trout and grayling in the Bighorn Mountain lakes. The lowland lakes and ponds are in excellent shape and reservoirs, such as Lake DeSmet, provide excellent fishing opportunities.   With the ‘urban’ ponds (Sheridan Fairgrounds, Mavrakis Pond) providing great trout fishing opportunities for beginning and experienced anglers alike, especially families.

The high mountain alpine lakes in the Bighorns should produce some quality angling with stocking programs, in conjunction with wild fisheries, creating good trout populations in the more popular lakes. Cutthroat trout are the most common species stocked, but there are a diverse array of opportunities for brown, rainbow, golden and brook trout, as well as grayling, lake trout and splake.

Prized Hunting Grounds – And the new and return hunters to the region are welcomed into a hunting abundance! The Sheridan area is the last most prized hunting grounds of the native American, with this long and rich tradition of hunting and boasts an abundance and diversity of big game, while comprised of public and private lands which are both integral to maintaining the myriad of wildlife species for which we are known.

Hunter information stations are available again in Sheridan this fall during peak-use days to answer questions about specific hunt areas, in include the following species:  Adult mule deer, White-tailed deer, Elk, Moose, Antelope, and  black bear; Birds – pheasants, gray partridge, sharp-tailed grouse and sage grouse, blue grouse, turkeys.

Walk-in access areas continue to gain in popularity in northeast Wyoming. These hunting and fishing areas are identified with signs, and can be located by using maps found in an atlas, which is available at the regional office and license agents. Separate areas have specific species for hunting so be sure to check the atlas for those species and possible changes from last season.

Many hunting opportunities are on private land so hunters should plan for access of private land by arranging for permission with private landowners for access to hunt or fish or travel through private property before purchasing a license. To make these arrangements, or for answers to questions concerning your experience in our region contact the Sheridan Regional Office at 307- 672-7418 or 1-800-331-9834 within Wyoming. Also to view the interesting wildlife displays, stop by the visitors center at the  Regional Office, located East of exit 23 on I-90.