Wyoming's Wild Wonderland: The Weirdest Adventures in the Cowboy State

Ah, Wyoming. A state born from the primordial chaos of tectonic shifts and volcanic fury, where jagged peaks pierce an endless sky and wide-open plains stretch like a painter’s canvas left unfinished. This is not just any destination; this is terra incognita for the soul—a place where nature itself seems to have gone mad with power and beauty.

# 1. **The Medicine Wheel**

Hidden high in the Bighorn Mountains (Medicine Mountain Road, Lovell, WY 82431), you’ll find a prehistoric enigma known as the Medicine Wheel—a stone circle measuring about 80 feet across that dates back at least several hundred years. Used by Native American tribes for ceremonial purposes, it still exudes an air of mysticism that could make Carlos Castaneda himself feel like he was back on peyote.

As you step closer to those ancient stones aligned perfectly with solstices and lunar cycles, consider how they mark not just physical geography but sacred time—moments frozen into rock by people who viewed life as a seamless flow between earth and sky.

# 2. **Thermopolis Hot Springs**

A divine oddity if there ever was one! Thermopolis (Hot Springs State Park, Thermopolis, WY 82443) boasts natural hot springs bubbling up from deep beneath Earth’s crust—nature’s own cauldron designed for relaxation or perhaps simmering your troubles away la boiling frog.

Soothe yourself in mineral-laden waters while contemplating what Hunter S. Thompson might call the wild hitchhiker spirit within us all—the need to wander aimlessly through surreal landscapes looking for truths that can’t be found on Google Maps.

# 3. **The Carissa Mine South Pass City**

Tucked away near Lander (South Pass City Historic Site - Highway 28 South Pass Ave., South Pass City, WY 82520), lies this ghostly remnant of gold rush fever dreams—the Carissa Mine Factory Complex still stands tall among echoes of pickaxes hitting ore veins long since emptied out.

Explore underground tunnels where miners once chased fortune under candlelight; let their desperate whispers guide your steps through darkened halls filled only now with dust motes dancing eerily against dim light filtering down shafts above ground level like some twisted rave scene right outta Kerouac’s nightmares!

# 4. **Devils Tower National Monument**

Stephen King couldn’t dream up something more bizarre than Devils Tower (Highway US-24 W/State Route NPS-DEVILSTOWER RDSUNKEN RDG EAST OF RT26/NEAR HULETT/GILETE AREA DEVILS TOWER NATL MONUMENT PARK SERVICE OFFICE NEAREST ZIP CODE IS PROBABLY GILETTE... BUT REALLY IT’S OUT THERE IN NO-MAN'S-LAND... YOU GET THE PICTURE). Rising abruptly almost vertically over rolling prairies below—it looks less geological formation & more extraterrestrial artifact dropped haphazardly onto landscape devoid entirely contextually speaking well relatively anyways...

Climb its sheer walls traditionally using ropes harnesses chalk bags OR simply gaze awestruck wonderment whilst sipping thermos-coffee thinking alien civilizations building monuments ages past leaving behind inscrutable legacies baffling humanity forevermore until apocalypse arrives bringing answers none expected hoped feared simultaneously feeling thrill terror coalesce single beatific moment realization mortality insignificance cosmic scale grandeur humbling awe-inspiring spectacle laid bare before gazed upon experienced intimately personally

# Websites & Twitter Handles:

1) [Bighorn National Forest - Medicine Wheel](https://www.fs.usda.gov/bighorn)

- @USDAForestService

2) [Hot Springs State Park](https://wyoparks.wyo.gov/index.php/places-to-go/hot-springs)

- @WyoParks

3) [South Pass City Historic Site](http://southpasscity.com/)

- @WYHistSociety

4) [Devils Tower National Monument](https://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm)

- @NatlParkService