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  • Campbell County
    • Pumpkin Buttes
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    • Encampment
    • Rawlins Uplift
    • Shirley Basin
  • Converse County
    • Ayres Natural Bridge
    • Douglas Crater Field
  • Crook County
    • Devils Tower & Black Hills
  • Fremont County
    • Gas Hills & Crooks Gap Uranium
    • Red Canyon
    • Sinks Canyon
    • South Pass
  • Goshen-Platte Counties
    • Fort Laramie & Hartville Uplift
    • Goshen Hole
  • Hot Springs County
    • Anchor Dam
    • Dinosaur Marbles
    • Thermopolis Hot Springs
    • Wind River Canyon Part 1
    • Wind River Canyon Part 2
  • Johnson County
    • Hole In The Wall & Red Wall Country
  • Lincoln County
    • Fossil Butte
    • Periodic Spring
  • Natrona County
    • Bessemer Bend
    • Casper Mountain
    • Ervay Basin
    • Granite Mountains
    • Hells Half Acre
    • Rattlesnake Hills
  • Niobrara County
    • Lusk Area
  • Park County
    • Absaroka Volcanic Province
    • Buffalo Bill Dam & Rattlesnake Mtn.
    • Clarks Fork Canyon
    • Cody Hydrothermal System
    • Dead Indian Hill
    • The Great Unconformity
    • Heart Mountain
    • Kirwin
    • Oregon Basin Oil Field
    • McCullough Peaks
    • Polecat Bench & PETM
    • Sunlight Basin
    • Tatman Mountain & Squaw Peaks
  • Sheridan County
    • Bighorn Mountain Byways Part II
  • Southeast Wyoming
    • North Platte River: One Dammed Thing After Another
  • Southern Powder River Basin
    • K-T Boundary
  • Sublette County
    • Titcomb Basin
  • Sweetwater County
    • Lake Gosiute & the Blue Forest
    • Flaming Gorge
    • Leucite Hills
  • Teton County
    • Gros Ventre Range & Granite Hot Springs
    • Northern Tetons Geologic Wonders
    • Two Ocean Pass
  • Uinta-Lincoln Counties
    • Wyoming Thrust Belt
  • Washakie County
    • Big Cedar Ridge
    • Castle Gardens
    • Tensleep Canyon & Sweet 16
    • Upper Nowood River Valley
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    • Crazy Mountains and Basin
    • Grasshopper Glacier
    • Nye-Bowler Fault Zone
    • Pryor Mountains
    • Red Lodge - Bear Creek Coal
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GEOLOGICAL FACTOR

Geological Factor -- 
Will it put goose bumps on a geologist’s arm?  Only emotions stirred by geological or intellectual stimuli are rated in this category from one to five stars.

Five Stars

Bighorn River Area Caves
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​Clarks Fork Canyon
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Dead Indian Hill
Heart Mountain
​K-T Boundary
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The Great Unconformity
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Wind River Canyon

Four Stars

Ancient River Channel & Sheep Mountain
​Bighorn Canyon
​Bighorn Mountain Byways Part 1​
​Bighorn Mountain Byways Part 2

Buffalo Bill Dam & Rattlesnake Mountain Anticline
Como Bluff

Devils Tower & Northern Black Hills Eocene Alkaline Magmatic Province
Medicine Lodge Tensleep Sandstone
Northern Tetons Geologic Wonders
​Pryor Mountains

Red Gulch Alkali BackCountry Byway
​Shell Dinosaur Bone Beds
Sunlight Basin

Tensleep Canyon & Sweet 16
Thermopolis Hot Springs - The Smoking Waters
Titcomb Basin
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Wyoming Thrust Belt & The Discovery of Oil

Three Stars

Absaroka Volcanic Province
Bessemer Bend
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Big Cedar Ridge
​Big Hollow

​Casper Mountain Area
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Cody Hydrothermal System
​Crazy Mountains and Basin
​Douglas Crater Field
​Ervay Basin 
Flaming Gorge

Fort Laramie & The Hartville Uplift 
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Fossil Butte
​Gas Hills & Crooks Gap Uranium
Granite Mountains
Gros Ventre & Granite Hot Springs
​Hells Half Acre & The Casper Arch

Oregon Basin Oil Field
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​​Periodic Spring
​Polecat Bench & PETM
Pumpkin Buttes
Red Canyon
Red Lodge - Bear Creek Coal

Sinks Canyon
​Snowy Range Stromatolites

​South Pass, Gateway to the West
​Tatman Mountain & Squaw Peaks

​Vedauwoo

Two Stars

Anchor Dam and the Owl Creek Valley - The "Hole" Story
​Ayres Natural Bridge

Dinosaur Marbles
​Encampment & Sierra Madre Mountains
Goshen Hole
​Grasshopper Glacier
​Hole In The Wall & Red Wall Country
​Kirwin
Lake Gosiute & The Blue Forest

Leucite Hills
​Lusk Area: High Plains Wyoming
​McCullough Peaks

​North Platte River: One Dammed Thing After Another
​Nye-Bowler Fault Zone
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​Rattlesnake Hills Volcanics and Gold
​Rawlins Uplift
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​Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite & Sundance Seaway
Shirley Basin

Upper Nowood River Valley
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​Wyoming Diamonds

One Star

​Castle Gardens
Devil's Kitchen

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  • Home
    • About Us
    • Links
    • Wow Factor
    • Geological Factor
  • Albany-Laramie Counties
    • Big Hollow
    • Como Bluff
    • Snowy Range Stromatolites
    • Vedauwoo
    • Wyoming Diamonds
  • Big Horn County
    • Ancient River Channel & Sheep Mountain
    • Bighorn Canyon
    • Bighorn Mountain Byways Part I
    • Bighorn River Area Caves
    • Devil's Kitchen
    • Medicine Lodge Tensleep Sandstone
    • Red Gulch Alkali Backcountry Byway
    • Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite & Sundance Seaway
    • Shell Dinosaur Bone Beds
  • Campbell County
    • Pumpkin Buttes
  • Carbon County
    • Encampment
    • Rawlins Uplift
    • Shirley Basin
  • Converse County
    • Ayres Natural Bridge
    • Douglas Crater Field
  • Crook County
    • Devils Tower & Black Hills
  • Fremont County
    • Gas Hills & Crooks Gap Uranium
    • Red Canyon
    • Sinks Canyon
    • South Pass
  • Goshen-Platte Counties
    • Fort Laramie & Hartville Uplift
    • Goshen Hole
  • Hot Springs County
    • Anchor Dam
    • Dinosaur Marbles
    • Thermopolis Hot Springs
    • Wind River Canyon Part 1
    • Wind River Canyon Part 2
  • Johnson County
    • Hole In The Wall & Red Wall Country
  • Lincoln County
    • Fossil Butte
    • Periodic Spring
  • Natrona County
    • Bessemer Bend
    • Casper Mountain
    • Ervay Basin
    • Granite Mountains
    • Hells Half Acre
    • Rattlesnake Hills
  • Niobrara County
    • Lusk Area
  • Park County
    • Absaroka Volcanic Province
    • Buffalo Bill Dam & Rattlesnake Mtn.
    • Clarks Fork Canyon
    • Cody Hydrothermal System
    • Dead Indian Hill
    • The Great Unconformity
    • Heart Mountain
    • Kirwin
    • Oregon Basin Oil Field
    • McCullough Peaks
    • Polecat Bench & PETM
    • Sunlight Basin
    • Tatman Mountain & Squaw Peaks
  • Sheridan County
    • Bighorn Mountain Byways Part II
  • Southeast Wyoming
    • North Platte River: One Dammed Thing After Another
  • Southern Powder River Basin
    • K-T Boundary
  • Sublette County
    • Titcomb Basin
  • Sweetwater County
    • Lake Gosiute & the Blue Forest
    • Flaming Gorge
    • Leucite Hills
  • Teton County
    • Gros Ventre Range & Granite Hot Springs
    • Northern Tetons Geologic Wonders
    • Two Ocean Pass
  • Uinta-Lincoln Counties
    • Wyoming Thrust Belt
  • Washakie County
    • Big Cedar Ridge
    • Castle Gardens
    • Tensleep Canyon & Sweet 16
    • Upper Nowood River Valley
  • MONTANA
    • Crazy Mountains and Basin
    • Grasshopper Glacier
    • Nye-Bowler Fault Zone
    • Pryor Mountains
    • Red Lodge - Bear Creek Coal
  • Contact Us