Search results
The Red Desert is a high-altitude desert and sagebrush steppe located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming, comprising approximately 9,320 square miles (24,100 square kilometers).
The Red Desert of southern Wyoming is one of the last high-desert ecosystems in North America. Its varied landscape of buttes, dunes, sagebrush steppe, mountains, and rocky pinnacles is home to some of the continent's most hidden treasures.
Wyoming’s Red Desert is one of the last great high-elevation deserts left in the United States. Here time, wind and water have carved out colorful badlands, sandstone towers, deep canyons and shifting sand dunes.
The northern Red Desert is Wyoming’s wild west heritage. A place where sweeping vistas, iconic landforms, big game, cultural sites and diverse wildlife abound.
Feb 28, 2020 · In its entirety, the Red Desert stretches across a vast swath of southwestern Wyoming and beyond — from the ghost town of South Pass City up north it spills south, east and west, past the Utah and Colorado borders.
Jul 24, 2022 · Although it doesn’t compare in size to the country’s largest desert, the nearly 250,000 square-mile Chihuahuan Desert spanning through southern New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and portions of southwest Texas, Wyoming’s Red Desert is a masterpiece of wilderness.
Oct 1, 2008 · This is where the Continental Divide splits, forming the country’s longest big-game corridor. In Africa, the Red Desert would be a wildlife sanctuary or game reserve. And anywhere else in the United States, a place this geographically astounding would be made a national park.
Lying in the heart of Wyoming is the Red Desert. This high-elevation desert offers a diverse array of landscapes, from vibrant badlands to life-supporting springs. This area is one of the largest strongholds of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states.
Jun 20, 2017 · Wyoming Chronicle travels to the Red Desert to understand the beauty, land use and challenges of managing the 9,000-plus square miles that make up high altitude desert and sagebrush steppe...
The Wyoming Red Desert is a place of unparalleled beauty and ecological significance, home to the world’s longest migration corridor for mule deer and a living cultural landscape sacred to Indigenous communities.
