- Location
- Wyoming
- Current protection
- Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest, including the Snowy Range Scenic Byway
- Status
- No active campaign
- Tier
- Tier 2 · National Monument
- In the book
- Not featured in Undiscovered America
Why should it be a National Park?
In the Medicine Bow Mountains of southern Wyoming, quartzite cliffs rise above a string of alpine lakes to Medicine Bow Peak at more than 12,000 feet, with some 120 lakes within a few miles of the road that crosses the range.
Its neighbors asked for a National Park in 1932. The range still has everything they described.
The history of National Park Campaigns
In 1932, the secretary of the Saratoga Lions Club petitioned Park Service Director Horace Albright to make the finest part of the Snowy Range a National Park, describing a highway that crossed the divide below Medicine Bow Peak and some 120 lakes within a small radius. Copies went to the governor and the state's congressional delegation. The range remained national forest.
- Distinct National Park attempts
- 1 (1932 petition)
- Other designation attempts
- 0
Sources
- Proposed Parks: Medicine Bow Range National Park, Wyoming, File 0-32 (npshistory.com)
- Wikipedia, List of proposed National Parks of the United States
- August 30, 1932
Arthur Campbell of the Saratoga Lions Club petitions Director Horace M. Albright for a Medicine Bow Range National Park, with copies to the governor, both senators, and the congressman.
- Today
The route is the Snowy Range Scenic Byway in Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest.