Gillette, Wyoming
Campbell County
Gillette offers a full-range
of lodging facilities and restaurants catering to a wide variety
of needs, meetings, and conventions. You'll find art galleries,
antique shops, and a variety of other stores to satisfy most shopping
desires. Gillette has numerous parks and is rich in recreational
opportunities, featuring activities for the bold and adventurous
to the traditional and relaxing. Gillettes Rockpile Museum
offers a hands-on-view of artifacts from cowboys, Indians, soldiers
and homesteaders, and is truly a journey into both the Old and the
New West.
Campbell
County hosts three golf courses in which the biggest "hazards"
are the antelope that wander the courses. Also, visitors can cool
off in any of the countys five swimming pools including an
Olympic size aquatics center, the 383 foot long Powder River Thunder
Run Waterslide, or the summer City Park Pool featuring five small
pools in one facility.
Gillette's Cam-Plex Multi-Event
Facility encompasses over 1,000 acres of land and features a fine
arts theater, a convention/exhibit hall, two multipurpose pavilions,
a racetrack, rodeo grounds, and a 21-acre park and picnic area.
It is ideally suited to host large conferences and conventions,
theater and dance, trade shows, livestock shows, and rodeos.
In Campbell County, the
pronghorn antelope outnumber the residents and are the most common
big game animal in the area. Campbell County is also home to large
concentrations of mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk. Upland
game birds such as sage and sharp-tailed grouse, turkeys, pheasants,
and partridge are common sights.
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