Wyoming’s high country does not always lend itself to quick weekend getaways. The trailheads are often isolated, requiring hours of driving. The trails themselves frequently spend miles winding ...

Wyoming sheriff Alex Bakken came to the aid of three teens lost on a mountain peak. The three had gone hiking and went on Medicine Bow Peak. Bakken had been driving when he saw the alert ...

CARBON COUNTY -- Three hikers who became lost on in the area of Heart Lake on the north side of Medicine Bow Peak were found safe late Monday, June 16.

CHEYENNE — Southeast Wyoming’s highest point, Medicine Bow Peak, has received an estimated 80 inches of snow since last Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Cheyenne.

Located off Wyoming 130 northwest of Centennial, Wyo., the Snowy Range lies at the upper end of the Medicine Bow Mountains, which stretch northward from Colorado’s Cameron Pass.

In 1955, United Airlines Flight 409 came within 75 feet of clearing Medicine Bow Peak in Wyoming. The plane crash on the highest point in the Snowy Mountains killed all 66 people aboard. Sixty years ...

We had come full circle, ending our 18-day, late summer 2013 Wyoming odyssey in Medicine Bow National Forest, where we had begun our trip two weeks earlier. Yet, no two mountains and no two hiking ...

Hikers on Medicine Bow Peak, Medicine Bow National Forest. Photo: George Wuerthner. The Medicine Bow National Forest is proposing one of the most massive logging operations in the lower 48 states.