Pack trips are customized to your must-see list, and outfitters provide you with everything, even cooking a hearty meal after a long day on the trail. All you need to bring is a sense of adventure.
Spend a day spotting elk, marmots, or bighorn sheep. Cast a line in one of the wild streams. Take a dip in a cold stream, fed by snow runoff from the mountains.
For adventurers traveling with their horses, you will find a few corrals and ranches so your horse can be just as comfortable as you are.
The Wind River Valley is one of the prime fishing destinations in the lower 48, surrounded by the towering peaks of the Wind River, Absaroka, and Owl Creek mountain ranges and home to hundreds of high-elevation lakes and thousands of miles of streams and rivers, the scenic region is sought-after whether anglers are catching from the stream, a boat or from atop a lakes’ frozen surfaces.
The world record golden trout was caught in the valley’s Cook Lake, you can also find rainbow, cutthroat, brown, and brook trout. Torrey Creek has plentiful burbot, and near Boysen, you can find catfish, sauger, and walleye. Head to Bighorn Lake for smallmouth bass, yellow perch, and sturgeon, and find bluegill at Ocean Lake.
The Wind River region around Dubois is habitat for big game and trophy animals: bighorn sheep, black bear, deer, elk, moose, mountain lion, and pronghorn.
Expert guides set up camp with spacious heated wall tents and a nice warm cook tent and fire circle for evening dinner and libations.
Dubois is amply ready to welcome hunters to town after the busy summer season, with numerous experienced outfitters:
