Medicine Bow Mountains
The Medicine Bow-Routt is located along the Wyoming-Colorado border. It is an archipelago of Rocky Mountain forests - Medicine Bow is in Wyoming and Routt is in Colorado.
Medicine Bow National Forest offers recreation activities all year long. It is also a wildlife habitat, and provides timber, forage for livestock, and water for irrigation, domestic use, and industry.
The name Medicine Bow comes from the Native American tradition of bow-making, which was usually a practice that occurred along with a powwow for curing disease. The bows were constructed out of mountain mahogany found in southeastern Wyoming. The Routt part of the name comes from John Long Routt (1826-1907) who was the last territorial and first state Governor of Colorado.
The Medicine Bow-Routt area covers more than 2.2 million acres - the topography varies throughout the area because of its vast size. Elevations range between 5,500 feet to 12,940 feet. The climate changes from semi-arid at low elevations to cold in the high country. Frost is a natural occurrence no matter what the time of year. Harsh winters are the norm in the higher elevations.
Medicine Bow Mountains, WY Weather
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