Cody Wyoming A clever tourism promoter once wrote: "Cody Wyoming has a great city park. It's called Yellowstone." Cody, Wyoming is named for Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the town's first developer and famous Wild West Show pioneer. The original town sight was located at the east end of the Shoshone Canyon, but was later moved to its current location. At the insistence of Bufalo Bill's fellow developers, the site was named Cody in 1895. By the turn of the 20th century, streets were laid out, the town was incorporated, and Colonel Cody opened his famous "Hotel in the Rockies", the Irma, named for his youngest daughter. Cody, Wyoming has less than 8,000 men, women and children, pretty amazing considering that is less than 50 miles east of America's favorite tourist attraction. Five scenic loop tours radiate from the hub of the community, all revealing the sheer majesty of this remarkably beautiful region of the west. Hunting camps spring up in the fall, and blue-ribbon trout streams lure fishers to the Clark's Fork's peaceful paradise. When the weather chills, Cody hosts world class ice climbing events. Downhill skiing draws winter sports lovers to Sleeping Giant Ski Area near Yellowstone's spectacular east entrance. Yellowstone's Beartooth Mountains and the Big Horn Mountains have favorite snowmobile trails, and trail guides can take snowmobilers into undiscovered country. |
