Big Trails, Wyoming
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| subdivision_name2 = Washakie
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Big Trails is an unincorporated place in the eastern part of Washakie County in north-central Wyoming. Wyoming Highway 434 leads north 21 miles to Ten Sleep, and south over mountains to Lost Cabin, Lysite, and Moneta. Barnum and Mayoworth are the nearest places to the east across the Bighorn range.{{cite map |title=Official State Highway Map of Wyoming |publisher=Wyoming Department of Transportation |year=2014 }}
History
The Ainsworth House, built in 1886, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
Big Trails lies in the Big Horn Basin{{cite web|url=http://www.uwyo.edu/wyndd/_files/docs/reports/wynddreports/u11hei04wyus.pdf|title=Surveys for Astragalus Gilviflorus var. Purpureus (DuBois Milkvetch) in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming|website=University of Wyoming|date=May 2011|accessdate=19 November 2014|last=Heidel|first=Bonnie}} on the northwest side of a mountain ridge. It is near the confluence of the eastern part of the Owl Creek Mountains and the southern part of the Bighorn Mountains. The southern Bighorns have a fault named Big Trails Fault{{cite web|url=http://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/research/stratigraphy/BighornMts/Default.aspx | title=Bighorn Mountains |website=Wyoming State Geological Survey |accessdate=19 November 2014 }} and there is some seismic activity in the area.{{cite web|url=http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsgs/hazards/quakes/seischar/Washakie.pdf|title=Basic Seismological Characterization for Washakie County, Wyoming|website=Wyoming State Geological Survey |accessdate=19 November 2014}} The place name "Nowood" is a local word that describes the Nowood Valley, Wyoming Highway 434 (the Nowood Road), and the Nowood River.
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External links
- {{gnis| 1585520}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/Research/Water-Resources/WBRB/Madison-Bighorn-aquifer-BB.aspx |title=Madison–Bighorn aquifer|website=Wyoming State Geological Survey |accessdate=19 November 2014 }}
{{Washakie County, Wyoming}}
Category:Unincorporated communities in Washakie County, Wyoming
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