Shoshone National Forest

The national forest system began here. On March 30, 1891, President Benjamin Harrison set aside the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve along the eastern edge of Yellowstone National Park, the first federal forest reserve in the country. That land became Shoshone National Forest, which now covers about 2.4 million acres (9,990 km²) of northwestern Wyoming from the Montana line to the Wind River Range. The Wapiti Ranger Station west of Cody, built in 1903, is the oldest surviving ranger station in any national forest. The forest is named for the Shoshone people, whose Wind River Reservation lies along its southeastern edge.

This is high, rugged country with few roads. More than half the forest, about 1.4 million acres (5,670 km²), is designated wilderness in the Absaroka and Wind River ranges. Gannett Peak, Wyoming's highest point at 13,804 feet (4,207 m), sits on its boundary, and the Wind Rivers hold more glaciers than any other national forest in the Rockies. The Shoshone is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and home to grizzly bears, wolves, bighorn sheep and moose. The Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway and the Beartooth Highway carry most visitors through it on their way into Yellowstone.

• Wind River Reservation
  Wyoming’s only reservation, shared by two nations borders
• Yellowstone National Park
  The world's first national park, atop a supervolcano borders
• Wyoming
  The least populous state, high plains and the Rockies located in
• The Beartooth Highway
  Switchbacks to nearly 11,000 feet near
• The Rocky Mountains
  The backbone of western North America part of