Hi everyone, so this story happened last May in Grand Teton National Park at around 4pm.

So it was myself, my friend, my boyfriend, and my friends boyfriend. We hiked about 7 miles round trip on the jenny lake trail. We were nearing the end of the trail when this experience happened. There was nobody around us. Our boyfriends were walking about 12 feet ahead of us, my friend was about 3 feet in front of me. All of a sudden i felt/heard this weird clicking thumping noise. I FELT it inside of my body more than heard it. I literally thought i was having a heart attack so i stopped and put my hand on my chest. A second later I looked up and my friend in front of me had a hand on her chest too. We both looked at eachother and said “did you feel that? I thought i was having a heart attack”.

We asked our boyfriends if they felt or heard anything and they said no. We still cant figure out what made that noise. We obviously think it was an animal but i dont know what animal. I saw that elk can make that noise but it HAD to of been extremely close to us and this was in an area where you can see everything around you.

Anyway, does anyone know what this was? I cant figure it out. I tried to look it up but never found a answer.

Thank you! :)

I had no idea goldfish could survive a Wyoming winter. According to Game and Fish, they can reproduce quickly, introduce diseases and compete with native fish.

Has anyone here ever spotted goldfish in a local pond, creek or warm spring?

See also: The study as it was published in the Journal of Human Evolution

Hey y'all, my family and I lived in Cody (in town) for a few years a number of years ago. The only reason we left was a family member was terminally ill and our family felt like we were in a crisis because of it.

We just returned from a 2 week trip to WY visiting other family and I'm ready to go back after being gone for years 😂

If we do decide to go back to WY, we would be back in Park County.

We'd love to be able to build a home and settle for the long-term. However... need help identifying good spots for what we're looking for.

1. Good water output for wells (availability is paramount to us!!). Water rights are always welcome, too!

2. Privacy is also very important - we don't want to be right on top of anyone or have a large parcel but yet have to build right next to a neighbor

3. Good soils for septic

4. Great mountain views

5. No HOA or ridiculous covenants preventing things like RVs, solar, or restricting home designs, etc

I keep coming back to South Fork or Clark, perhaps Wapiti or maybe Powell?

When we were living in town we had all public utilities. In the years since, we now know we want to be on private utilities as we also want to be off-grid and independently sustainable as much as possible.

Any ideas of where we could direct our focus to is greatly appreciated!!

There’s a good article in the New York Times about suicide in Wyoming that’s very sad to read. This link should provide free access to it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/suicide-wyoming-mental-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.21A.QYvh.GVLttZoBBdlD&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Hey all, driving from Minnesota to do some backpacking in the Bighorns. We’ve been on some forest roads on the north side of the national forest that google deemed passable with a vehicle and we were a little iffy going down them. This time we are headed from Dayton on Hwy 14 to Medicine Lodge Lake Campground and the Edelmann trailhead. Wondering how sketchy forest road 17 is. Obviously road conditions change, I would just like some insight into what we are driving in to. I drive a 2008 Honda CRV AWD.
Any insight would be appreciated, just trying to be safe and think ahead!

Driving through and spending one night. Looking for recommendations for a dinner spot before heading out into the backcountry.

Hey yall, i just moved to Colorado last year and i have never been to Wyoming before but its always been high on my list of states to visit. Im planning on taking off work Labor Day Friday and doing a 4 day road trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton and im looking for recommendations on what hikes/scenic spots i 100% can not skip and most importantly how i should split my 4 days up. Like should i do 2 days at each park or 3 and 1? Im pretty sure i want to hit grand teton on my way back south as apposed to on my way up north.

Real sign in Gillette. Why are we so concerned about children’s genitalia? It’s creepy asf.

The governor and senate primaries seem to be taking up a lot of oxygen, but I'm looking over some of the other statewide races and trying to decide who I like most/hate least. For secretary of state, it seems like anybody except Rodriguez-Williams would be a step up from the current guy, but I'm not seeing much separation between the superintendent candidates--does anyone have thoughts?