Wyoming is the State of the "Great First": the first one to have granted its women the right to vote, in 1869, also the first to have had a woman governor, in 1925, it also witnessed the creation of the first national park, Yellowstone, and the first national monument, Devil's Tower, and the first national forest, Shoshone.

Cheyenne Frontier Days

Du 20 au 29 juillet 2007

Cheyenne

The State's Capital was founded in 1867 by some mechanics of the Pacific Union at the time of the construction of the first transcontinental railroad.
Cheyenne is regarded as the capital of the Wild West or of what it remains about it.
Known under the name of " Daddy of 'em all " (the Patriarch), Cheyenne Frontier Days is the largest "stampede", the world's largest spectacle of open air rodeo. It is held each year, during the last week of July, since 1897.

Not far from Cheyenne we find the Laramie Fortress, which was originally built to protect the animal fur merchants and the trappers on the old track of Oregon. Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill stopped there. A museum and 21 buildings (the majority of them are restored) recall its history.

The ruts dug by the coaches of the pioneers who borrowed Oregon Trail, the track of Oregon, are still visible not far from Cheyenne, in Guernsey at Platte River Canyon. The names of the pioneers who borrowed this way are engraved in the rocky surfaces.

Cody

80 km in the east of Yellowstone, in Cody, the city which bears the name of the Western hero who founded it, you will see Buffalo Bill Historic Center, as well as the reconstruction of this famous guide and showman's ranch.

Yellowstone National Park
World's oldest (1872) and America's biggest (9,000 km2) in the northwest of the State. It gathers 10,000 geysers and thermal springs. Old Faithful, the most famous, can spout out between 37,000 and 40,000 liters of boiling water rising up to 54 meters high around every 64 minutes. In the park you have hotels, chalets, camping grounds, excursion paths and horse tracks to reach further places.

Grand Teton National Park

With its 780 km of majestuous peaks and valleys, Grand Teton is located only about 13 km to Yellowstone's north. Go and live your big adventure : begin at Moran and descend in a pneumatic canoe at the Snake River,

Jackson

In the south entryway of Grand Teton National Park we find Jackson, a reputable ski station. In summer the Laubin Ancient Indian Dances are held here : a passionating reconstitution of the Indian dances and cultures of a time before the arrival of whitemen.

The Jackson Hole skyliner will bring you through a distance of more than 4 kilometers, at an altitude of 10,446 feet, at the top of Rendezvous Peak. Fabulous sight on the chain of Grand Teton and the area of Jackson Hole.

Devil's Tower

Situated in the northwestern part of the State, near Moorcroft, the Devil's Tower had been registered in 1906 a the nation's first National Monument, due to the role that it had always played : a refering point for the explorators and voyagers coming from Black Hills and a symbol that accompanies them towards the West.

Already in the Indian tribes's legends and folklore had Devil's Tower appeared;

The impresive rocky formation, with monumentary basalt columns, has seen its popularity reborn among the visitors following its use as a background in 1978 for the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.