This wildlife habitat area has two campgrounds and access for hiking, camping, hunting and fishing. The canyon is a great location for a picnic, to watch for the animals which inhabit the area, or to hike up the trail along Tongue River. Fishing here, for trout, is excellent. The steep walls of this canyon are favorites of local climbers. Nearly 300 elk migrate to the Amsden Creek Habitat Area which is also home to mule deer. This habitat area is located in the foothills of the Big Horns north of the canyon. An access book on Wyoming Habitat Areas is available from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department located in Sheridan.

 

Immerse yourself in the relaxing, picturesque, peaceful surroundings of Bighorn Canyon Country, on scenic by-way highway 14A.  The Bighorn Canyon National Recreation area straddles the border between north central Wyoming and south central Montana. The canyon vicinity offers a diversified landscape of forest, mountains, upland prairie, deep canyons, broad valleys, lake and wetlands. The canyon was formed by a combination of gradual regional uplift and stream erosion. Much of it is narrow and confined within sheer walls over 2,000 feet.

 

Activities: Hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, swimming, site seeing, bicycling, horseback riding, camping, wildlife viewing (wild mustangs & Bighorn Mountain Sheep), bird watching, skiing, snowmobiling, and exploring the past.

The Pryor Mountains, named after Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, is home to the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. In 1968, 31,000 acres in the Pryor Mountains was set aside as a public range for the wild horses, the first of its kind in the nation. For more than a century, the Pryor Mountains have been home to free-roaming, genetically unique bands of wild horses linked to the Spanish Mustangs brought to the United States by the Spanish conquistadors. The heard size of about 120-140 is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.