Overview

As a top Wyoming lodge, Snowshoe Lodge gets its name from Snowshoe Pass, where it is located in the Bighorn National Forest of the Big Horn Mountain s of Wyoming. The Big Horns are one of the best-kept secrets of the great outdoors.

This "Paradise West" offers immense outdoor recreational opportunities: including fishing; big game hunting in Wyoming; sightseeing, picnicking, and camping in Wyoming; nature and wildlife photography; skiing and sledding slopes. Plus a vast network of trails for hiking and backpacking, horseback riding Wyoming style, mountain biking, Wyoming snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing.

The Bighorn National Forest, including the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, is unique and diverse. Within the National Forest area, you can encounter grass prairies, mountain lakes (such as Lake Adelaide), evergreen forests, mountain meadows, rugged alpine peaks (such as Cloud Peak), dramatic canyons, arid high-desert lands, and cascading waterfalls (such as Shell Falls) -- all within a day's tour.

Year-Round Base Camp of Choice Hike, mountain bike, nature & wildlife photography, scenic trail riding or pack trips with horses, Wyoming hunting and fishing, or simply a refreshing mountain retreat. As the best Big Horn mountain lodge, Snowshoe Lodge is also the year-round base camp of choice.

Winter Wonderland
For five to six months of the year there's plenty of powder for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. How about a Wyoming snowmobiling vacation? With 400 miles of groomed snowmobile trails that begin at your doorstep, this is snowmobile paradise from the beginning of January into April. Or make your own trail to the high country, all the way to 11,000 ft elevation if you choose! Snowshoe Lodge is truly the Wyoming snowmobiling lodge of choice. With good sledding possibly as early as November, but best give them a call to check conditions for snowmobiling in Wyoming.

Regional Attractions
There are many scenic canyons and regional attractions nearby to the Big Horns. For instance, some of the largest and most important dinosaur track sites in North America are in the area. Charming Cody, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park lie further to the west. See Regional Attractions.

Snowshoe Lodge is owned and operated by The Hideout at Flitner Ranch, an upscale guest ranch operation on one of the largest working cattle and horse ranches in the American West. The Hideout's headquarters overlook the tiny village of Shell, Wyoming (population 50); which is also the closest town to Snowshoe Lodge. Snowshoe Lodge and other guest lodgings of The Hideout are located on the 100-year-old Flitner Ranch, which now encompasses over 250,000 acres in the Big Horn Basin and Bighorn National Forest.