In western Wyoming's Big Horn Basin lies the town of Worland. Cross the Big Horn Mountains on colorful US Highway 16 West on your way to Jackson, the Tetons or Yellowstone Park and you'll eventually end up there. Not as scenic to the immediate eye as the neighboring town of Tensleep at the mouth of the Big Horns' western canyon, Worland has its own contrasting summer color in its green alfalfa fields and other crops.

Worland Wyoming is located 25 miles west of the Bighorn Mountains and offers a little something for everyone. Outdoor enthusiasts can choose from golfing a highly rated 18-hole course, or searching a geological site for prehistoric plant fossils. Hunters and fishermen enjoy the area because of the abundant wildlife and fishing opportunities. If shopping is your game, Worland offers a wide variety of shops.

Farming is made possible by the existence of life-giving water, which as the Wind River flows into the Boysen Canyon and then northward through Worland and other points in the Basin.
The Highway 16 route into Worland offers quite a contrast of geological formations petroglyphs and land contours from mountain range to the almost desert-like Badlands. West of Worland such formations as the Gooseberry and Painted Desert offer a close up look at the natural erosional forces, which continue to sculpt the Wyoming landscape.

Residents enjoy their surroundings because the Basin winters are generally mild in Worland, with far less snow than is found in Jackson and other towns to the west. As little as five inches of rain may fall in the Big Horn Basin while western Wyoming receives as much as 50 inches. Summer can be hot in the area as evidenced in the neighboring town of Basin whose 1983 record-breaking temperature for the state was 115.
Irrigated fields produce malt barley, alfalfa and sugar beets. Several industries operate in the Worland area, including a beverage bottling plant and an aluminum can manufacturing plant.

While Wyoming is called as the least industrialized state in the union, its factories and processing plants add some $400 million worth of value to the raw materials they process every year. Many of the state's farm products are processed into other forms. Refineries like the one in Worland and other northwestern towns process sugar beets into beet sugar.

The proud heritage of this Wyoming community is visible through the many churches, schools, parks and the local hospital. Warm and friendly, Worland is truly a Western town to remember.