The past is always present in Buffalo Bill’s Cody/Yellowstone Country. This corner of northwest Wyoming is the true West, a place where cowboy culture thrives but where traditional culture is just as vital. The country is rugged, the people genuine and the opportunities for adventure and relaxation are nearly endless. This is not the West of Hollywood. This is the real West. We take our history seriously. It’s all around us, all the time.
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Belden/ Meeteetse Museums
Museum houses a fine collection of western ranching artifacts and one of the largest grizzly bears taken in the Yellowstone Ecosystem plus photographs from famous western photographer Charles J. Belden.
Buffalo Bill Dam Visitor Center
Buffalo Bill Dam, a farsighted watershed project, was completed in 1910. At the time, it was the highest elevation for a dam in the world. It was additionally one of the first concrete dams built in the United States: its construction marked a breakthrough in design and the development of concrete arch structures. Buffalo Bill Dam was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
For all of its engineering and architectural breakthroughs, the dam and its reservoir served a higher need. This was the irrigation of multiple conservation districts particularly in eastern Park County. There the water has made several agriculture based communities where grains, sugar beets and other products have replaced the rock and sagebrush.
Buffalo Bill Dam is located on the Shoshone River about six miles west of Cody. The dam is 353 feet high, 200 feet wide at its crest and 108 feet wide at its base.Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Spend two hours or two days: see the highlights or see it all. Whatever your interest - Buffalo Bill, western art, Plains Indian culture, firearms or the nature and science of the Greater Yellowstone area - you' find the authentic West here. Special programs for both kids and adults every weekday June through August; special events throughout the year.
Cody Country Gallery and Art League
A non-profit organization to help all new and growing artists. Classes and large gallery.
Cody Mural Visitor Center
The magnificent Cody Mural covers a domed ceiling 36 feet in diameter and 18 feet to the top of the dome. Perfectly blended into the mural are selected historical scenes from the first seventy years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In an adjoining part of the building, are displays and art telling the story of the colonization of the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming.Harry Jackson Studios
Harry Jackson Studios
Homesteader Museum
This museum contains artifacts depicting homesteading history from the opening of the Shoshone Reclamation Project in the early 1900s. Exhibits include: medical, geology, military, fashion, home, children, a caboose and much more. Corner of Clark & 1st Street off Highway 14A, Powell. Closed January and February. Open Tuesday through Saturday. Call for hours.
Kirwin
The ghost town of Kirwin & the Double D Ranch site are located on the Wood River. Kirwin was an active gold and silver mining town at the turn of the century. Numerous buildings stand today. Meeteetse Museum annually offers a historic tour to the ghost town & dude ranch. A 4-wheel drive vehicle is required to access Kirwin. Due to snow and high water, vehicles usually can reach Kirwin July – September. Information available at Meeteetse Museum
Meeteetse Bank Museum and Archives
Built as a bank in 1901. Collections of banking artifacts and Meeteetse photographs.
Old West Miniature Village and Museum
Diorama of western and Wyoming history, thousands of American Indian and other historic artifacts.
Pahaska Tepee Resort
Kitchen, Sauna/Jacuzzi, Handicap Access, Airport Transportation, Reunions and Seminars, Meals. Located 50 miles from Cody, 2 miles from the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park.
Trail Town & Museum of the Old West
Trail Town is a collection of historic buildings and relics of the Wyoming frontier. It is reconstructed on the site of Old Cody City and the original wagon trail is still visible in front of the buildings. Among the attractions are the "Museum of the Old West" which houses prehistoric and historic Plains Indians materials, guns of the frontier, carriages, clothing and many other relics of the past. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's "Hole- in-the-Wall" cabin has been relocated there. Jeremiah "Liver-Eating" Johnson, the mountain man, is buried here along with several other notorious Western characters.
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