Cody Yellowstone Uncovered

Cody, Wyoming, is No. 1. At least according to the enthusiastic, traveling-loving readers of USA Today. Cody topped the Best Western Small Towns list in a recent USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice poll. 

With nearly 7,000 square miles, a population of just 30,000 people, and natural beauty everywhere you turn, it’s no surprise that Cody Yellowstone is a camper’s dream.

“Cody.” Around here, the name alone conjures up iconic images and stories of the American West.

With endless forests, valleys, frosty wildlife and snow-covered trees, winter is prime time for outdoor photography in and around Yellowstone National Park. Photographers come from around the world to capture winter-season images from the world’s first national park and surrounding regions such as Cody Yellowstone, the region to the east of the park that includes the gateway community of Cody, parts of the park and the Shoshone National Forest, the world’s first national forest.

With almost 7,000 square miles and a population of only about 30,000 people, Wyoming’s Park County is a wintertime snowmobiling paradise for enthusiasts who enjoy exploring pristine trails and wide-open wilderness.

Here in the town that Buffalo Bill Cody founded 125 years ago, you’d think there’d be one cast-in-concrete, no-doubt-about-it fact we’d all agree on.

When you hear the term wildlife safari, you automatically think of leaping gazelles and lions in the wide open plains of South Africa. But what if we told that you that you don’t need to book your tickets to Africa to experience a wildlife safari?

So much happens here in Cody Yellowstone when June arrives.