Welcome to our website and our mountains (and by “ours”, we mean yours too!). If this is your first time to the Wind River Range, we hope you discover the magic about this place. These mountains truly have the power to enlighten and inspire, and definitely provide a phenomenal setting for life-long memories of adventures with our families and friends. These mountains are among the finest of our nation’s treasures.

We hope that during your time here that you will appreciate the outstanding beauty of the landscape and develop a connection with nature. Our goal is to work together and help each other to learn and demonstrate the most responsible and ethical practices during our time in the backcountry. Fostering care and education are the most effective and powerful means to ensuring these mountains remain wild and beautiful for the next generation.

It is clear that our growing nation needs wild places. Now more than ever people are discovering the wonders of wilderness. Please know that your actions alone matter, your choices in the backcountry matter, significantly! We, as a visitor community, have the power to preserve or destroy the special qualities of these mountains. With the demonstration of fundamental backcountry practices, the Wind River backcountry doesn’t have to feel crowded, and can remain pristine and undefiled.

Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit our site. Our intent is not to elaborate on all backcountry practices, rather to plant a seed by introducing some key principles in a simplistic way and perhaps provide a foundation for developing and expanding your own land values and ethics.

As a part of the Wind River community (by that, we mean those that love and appreciate these mountains), we welcome suggestions for our website content. We certainly don’t have all the answers, if you have something to offer to make the site better, please let us know. And, we also would love to hear about your experience. Please keep your communication with us constructive. Our core values are based on individual ownership and responsibility for our mountains.