Lake Stop Resort

Are the Big Horn Mountains and the Bighorn National Forest the place for you to experience an exciting, relaxing, and stress-free vacation? As they say in Wyoming, You bet! It is an outdoor paradise filled with recreational opportunities including hunting, fishing, camping, hiking and backpacking, horseback riding, mountain biking, picnicking, sightseeing, photography, snowmobiling, skiing, and sledding. There are several scenic byways which pass through the Bighorn National Forest, all of which provide the traveler with scenic driving. The Bighorn Scenic Byway (US 14) connects the cities of Sheridan and Greybull and includes 45 miles of scenic mountain driving. The Cloud Peak Skyway (US 16), connecting the city of Buffalo and the town of Tensleep, crosses the southern Bighorn National Forest and offers breathtaking views of snow-capped peaks along its 45-mile length. The Medicine Wheel Passage (US 14A) rises sharply from the Bighorn Basin near the city of Lovell and travels 25 miles through high alpine meadows to Burgess Junction, where it intersects with the Bighorn Scenic Byway. This route also boasts the largest ancient Medicine Wheel site in North America. Since long before the area known as Wyoming became a state in 1890, civilization has been using the southern corridor of this state for transportation, creating a rich heritage to be shared with visitors. From dinosaur tracks to wagons or railroad tracks to modern interstate highways, come for a tour of the area that may take you back thousands of years and you will become a part of the "Tracks Across Wyoming". These take you on a journey through time as well as space. Discover how the stories of westward migration and the nation's first transcontinental railroad and coast-to-coast automobile route are woven throughout southern Wyoming.