Treasure Hunting in Wyoming

Outlaw country — Hole-in-the-Wall caches, Butch Cassidy hideouts, and abundant ghost towns.

Top Wyoming treasure regions: Hole-in-the-Wall; Wind River range; South Pass; Wyoming Black Hills.

Famous documented cases in Wyoming: Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw caches; South Pass gold caches; Lost Cabin Mine.

Forrest Fenn Treasure (Recovered Reference) (2010, status: partially recovered): Forrest Fenn hid a bronze chest of gold and gems in the Rocky Mountains in 2010, encoded in a poem. The chest was recovered in 2020 by Jack Stuef in Wyoming. The methodology (poem-as-coordinate decoder + terrain triangulation) directly informs PinPoint Treasure's approach to active cases. Where: Recovered — case study for methodology only. Land rules: Recovered. Useful as reference case only.

Terrain in Wyoming: Basin-and-range, alpine, and high prairie.

Best seasons for field work in Wyoming: June–October.

Wyoming state parks are managed by Wyoming State Parks (https://wyoparks.wyo.gov/); check its rules before detecting in any state park.