When you visit Wyoming, there are scenic highways that will take you through the heart of this beautiful, vast state.  Start with the Beartooth Highway, the road that Charles Kuralt called “America’s most beautiful highway.”   This highway starts and ends in Montana, but loops through the northern Wyoming border of Yellowstone National Park.  You’ll see the transition from a lush mountain ecosystem to alpine meadows full of wildflowers to one of the highest and most rugged mountain tops in the lower 48 states.  Keep your eyes peeled for native wildlife, including Rocky Mountain goats, moose, grizzly and black bears, and mule deer.  This route is officially closed in the winter, but snowmobiling and cross country skiing is available from many trailheads.

Another beautiful drive is the Bighorn Scenic Byway, which leaves Shell in north central Wyoming, travels through Shell Canyon into the Bighorn National Forest, and then into the Big Horn Mountains.  This drive is a geologist’s dream, with limestone outcroppings, colorful granite, and sandstone filled with fossil shells.  Another beautiful drive leading to a fascinating rock formation is highway 14 to Devils Tower National Monument.  Start at the low foothills of the Black Hills in Sundance in Eastern Wyoming and take highway 14 though a myriad of plant and animal life.  Bring binoculars to watch professional rock climbers scale the face of this shear rock tower, then enjoy the huge prairie dog town at the base of Devil's Tower.

Wyoming has countless scenic drives through the Grand Tetons Mountains and around Jackson Hole.  You can pick just about any highway and enjoy an hour or two of beautiful country and wildlife-spotting.  With so many choices of scenic highways and byways in Wyoming, you could spend your entire vacation in the car!