Geology of Wyoming
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    • Vedauwoo
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  • 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
    • Battle Pass Byway - WY Highway 70
    • Encampment & Sierra Madre Mtns
    • Freezeout Hills
    • 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
  • Laramie County
    • Cheyenne Tablelands and Gangplank
  • 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
    • Beartooth Highway
    • 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
    • Adobe Town
    • Flaming Gorge
    • Lake Gosiute & the Blue Forest
    • 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

WOW FACTOR

Wow Factor --
Will I be impressed?  Is it magical?  This is a one to five star rating scale with one star being pleasant and five stars having the potential for goose bumps on the arms (frisson) and a lasting memory.

Five Stars

Beartooth Highway
Bighorn Canyon
​Bighorn Mountain Byways Part 1
Clarks Fork Canyon
Flaming Gorge
​Titcomb Basin
Wind River Canyon

Four Stars

Absaroka Volcanic Province
Bighorn Mountains Byway Part 2
​Crazy Mountains and Basin 
Dead Indian Hill
Devils Tower & Northern Black Hills Eocene Alkaline Magmatic Province 
Fort Laramie & The Hartville Uplift
Heart Mountain
Kirwin
Medicine Lodge Tensleep Sandstone

North Platte River: One Dammed Thing After Another​
​Periodic Spring
​Pryor Mountains
Sinks Canyon
​South Pass, Gateway To The West
​
Sunlight Basin
Tensleep Canyon & Sweet 16
Thermopolis Hot Springs - The Smoking Waters
​Vedauwoo
​
Wyoming Thrust Belt & The Discovery Of Oil

Three Stars

Adobe Town
​Anchor Dam and the Owl Creek Valley - The "Hole" Story
​Ayres Natural Bridge
Bighorn River Area Caves
Buffalo Bill Dam & Rattlesnake Mountain Anticline
Casper Mountain Area
Cheyenne Tablelands and Gangplank
Douglas Crater Field
​Encampment & Sierra Madre Mountains
Fossil Butte
Granite Mountains
​Grasshopper Glacier
Gros Ventre & Granite Hot Springs
Hells Half Acre & The Casper Arch
Hole In The Wall & Red Wall Country
​Lake Gosiute & The Blue Forest
​Leucite Hills
Lusk Area: High Plains Wyoming 
Northern Tetons Geologic Wonders
​
Nye-Bowler Fault Zone
Rattlesnake Hills Volcanics and Gold
​Rawlins Uplift
​Red Canyon
​
Red Lodge - Bear Creek Coal
Red Gulch Alkali BackCountry Byway
​Shirley Basin
​Snowy Range Stromatolites
Upper Nowood River Valley
​Wyoming Diamonds

Two Stars

Ancient River Channel & Sheep Mountain
Bessemer Bend
Big Cedar Ridge
Big Hollow
Castle Gardens
Cody Hydrothermal System
Como Bluff
Devil's Kitchen
Dinosaur Marbles
Ervay Basin
​Freezeout Hills
​Gas Hills & Crooks Gap Uranium
Goshen Hole
​K-T Boundary
​McCullough Peaks
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite & Sundance Seaway
​Sybille Canyon - Wyoming Highway 34
Tatman Mountain & Squaw Peaks

The Great Unconformity
Shell Dinosaur Bone Beds

One Star

​Pumpkin Buttes
Oregon Basin Oil Field
​Polecat Bench & PETM



WARNING!

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  • Home
    • Wow Factor
    • Geological Factor
    • Stratigraphic Column
    • Wyoming Links
    • About The Geologists
    • Contact Us
  • Map of GeoWyo Top Spots
  • Albany-Laramie Counties
    • Big Hollow
    • Como Bluff
    • Snowy Range Stromatolites
    • Sybille Canyon - WY Highway 34
    • 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
    • Battle Pass Byway - WY Highway 70
    • Encampment & Sierra Madre Mtns
    • Freezeout Hills
    • 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
  • Laramie County
    • Cheyenne Tablelands and Gangplank
  • 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
    • Beartooth Highway
    • 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
    • Adobe Town
    • Flaming Gorge
    • Lake Gosiute & the Blue Forest
    • 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