The Sierra Club shares some special places to explore, enjoy and protect.
Red Desert, Wyoming
The Red Desert is like no other place on Earth. Here, in southern Wyoming, the Continental Divide splits to surround the Red Desert basin which drains to neither the Atlantic nor the Pacific. The Red Desert encompasses one of the last great undeveloped tracts of high elevation, cold desert in the United States. The area includes red-bottomed desert lakes dotted with bright green greasewood, barren areas of sheet erosion and painted badlands, volcanic necks and cones, shifting sand dunes with buried ice deposits and fossil beds from an ancient inland sea.
Source: Sierra Club special report, Protecting the Lands of Lewis and Clark. Photo courtesy Kirk Koepsel
The Red Desert is like no other place on Earth. Here, in southern Wyoming, the Continental Divide splits to surround the Red Desert basin which drains to neither the Atlantic nor the Pacific. The Red Desert encompasses one of the last great undeveloped tracts of high elevation, cold desert in the United States. The area includes red-bottomed desert lakes dotted with bright green greasewood, barren areas of sheet erosion and painted badlands, volcanic necks and cones, shifting sand dunes with buried ice deposits and fossil beds from an ancient inland sea.