Wyoming Safety Tips and Resources

While visiting Wyoming, ensure you have the best experience possible when you follow certain safety measures that will keep you and yours healthy and safe.

Wyoming is Grizzly Country

When exploring the Meeteetse landscape, it is important to be aware that this is bear country and certain precautions must be made to ensure your safety. Below are some bear safety tips:

  1. When in the backcountry, carry bear spray and know how to use it.

  2. If camping or day tripping, always store food in bear safe containers. Bears have a great sense of smell and will enter your campsite if they smell food.

  3. When hiking in the backcountry, be sure to make plenty of noise. If a bear hears you coming, they are likely to avoid a run in.

Covid Precautions

The wide open Wyoming spaces make it easy to be socially distanced but in the instance that you are in close quarters with others, practice the mandates in place to ensure you stay in good health.

Navigation Tools

When exploring the backcountry of Wyoming, be sure to carry some sort of navigation tool. Wyoming remains, in many ways, to be primitive and rugged. In order to stay on the right course and find your way back, it is wise to not only rely on a mountain trail to show you the way. AllTrails and onX are great outdoor apps that allow you to download trails so you still have access when out of cell service. The two work great together because AllTrails has more trail maps but onX provides information about public lands so you don’t stumble onto someones private property.

Shoshone National Forest Service

Utilize the Forest Service website for information and regulations on national forest land. Find information on locations, campgrounds, trails and more on the Shoshone National Forest website.

Bureau of Land Management

Utilize the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) website to discover information on public lands. Find places to explore and information about the location on the BLM site.

Wyoming Game & Fish

If you are planning on hunting in the area or have questions about wildlife regulations, utilize the Game & Fish website. Discover hunting regulations and information on the wildlife in the area.