Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Wyoming
Detourmap lists 198 places in Wyoming, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Yellowstone National Park. 172 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 198
- Oldest
- Yellowstone National Park 1872
- Little known
- 172 of 198
- Share of United States
- 5%
Wyoming 198
The 120 best known of 198. The other 78 are on the map and on the United States pages.
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1.Yellowstone National Park
Nature · 19th century · Iconic
First national park in the world, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States
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2.Grand Teton National Park
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming
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4.Yellowstone volcano
Nature · Renowned
Volcanic caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the United states
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16.South Pass
Nature · Notable
Collective term for two mountain passes on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming
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17.Mammoth Hot Springs
Nature · Notable
Large complex of hot springs in Park County, Wyoming, United States
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22.Gibbon Falls
Nature · Notable
Waterfall on the Gibbon River in northwestern Yellowstone National Park
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23.Lewis Falls
Nature · Notable
Waterfall located on the Lewis River in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
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24.Kepler Cascades
Nature · Notable
Waterfall on the Firehole River in southwestern Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
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27.Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Nature · Hidden gem
Canyon on the Yellowstone River in Park County, Wyoming, United States
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28.Independence Rock
Nature · Hidden gem
Place in Wyoming listed on National Register of Historic Places
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67.Star Valley
Nature · Hidden gem
Valley in Lincoln County, Wyoming and Bonneville and Caribou counties in Idaho in the United States
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72.White Dome Geyser
Nature · Hidden gem
Geyser located in the Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park in the United States
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79.Upper Falls of the Yellowstone River
Nature · Hidden gem
Waterfall in Yellowstone National Park in Park County, Wyoming, United States
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81.South Pass City
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States
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110.Avalanche Canyon
Nature · Hidden gem
Gorge in Grand Teton National Park in the west of the U.S. state of Wyoming
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116.Economic Geyser
Nature · Hidden gem
Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Wyoming?
Yellowstone National Park, 19th century. First national park in the world, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Wyoming?
198: 182 nature & landscapes and 16 archaeological & historic sites. 172 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Wyoming?
Yellowstone National Park, dated to 1872. 8 of the 198 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Wyoming here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Wyoming if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Wyoming is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.