Adventure Travel Photography Blog
US Highway 14A, also known as Medicine Wheel Passage Scenic Byway, travels 98 miles from Cody, Wyoming to Burgess Junction. It features five waterfalls on the 53 mile stretch between Lovell and Burgess Junction along with a few other interesting stops. Below are the five waterfalls off Scenic Highway 14A.
CHASE WATERFALLS!
The Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark, located in the Bighorn National Forest, is absolutely fascinating to me and extremely sacred to Native Americans. In fact, the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark was so interesting to me, that I returned twelve years later to see it again. Given I rarely go the same place twice, that’s saying a lot!
I can’t really explain why I find the Medicine Wheel so interesting, except that I was completely surprised by the limestone rocks that form a circle 80 feet in diameter during my first visit. I can’t imagine being the first settler to discover the Medicine Wheel, with 28 rock spokes radiating from a center cairn, spread across the northwest ridge of a mountain at nearly 9,700 feet!
EXPLORE!
So I camped with the truckers last night at the Conoco…another first! By the time I got up and going, most of them had left and only the two other camper folks
remained. Before I left the tiny town for Cody Country, I stopped off at the Crook County Museum and Art Gallery to see the exhibit on the Sundance Kid.
First, this town was so small, I would have never thought it would have a museum, let alone worthy of a visit (my Reader’s Digest Scenic Drives of America helped with that). Second, I found it humorous that it took me three tries to find the place! I saw a giant sign on an old high school building mentioning the museum, but then I realized it said, “Future Home of the museum which is currently housed in the Court House”. So I proceed to drive around the three blocks looking for the Court House thinking it would be an old, ornate building from 1915 like the bank.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!