Anyone familiar with Wyoming knows that it’s dotted with quirky little towns. There’s one peculiar place in particular on the state’s map that has the rest beat. The residents living in Adobe Town aren’t even human – they’re wild horses descended from stock brought to the area by ranchers nearly a century ago. What’s more, the town isn’t even a town. It only looks like one from a distance.
Adobe Town is an approximately 50-square mile area in the Red Desert in Wyoming.
Bureau of Land Management/Flickr There are smaller towns in Wyoming, but none like Adobe Town.
“Adobe Town” seemed an appropriate name for the area because the unusual way the elements have eroded stone outcroppings there make it appear like a collection of adobe structures.
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There are some populated areas around the Red Desert, but animals are the only ones living in the Adobe Town Wilderness. Wild horses make up a large number of the wildlife there.
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One notable former member of the herd in the Adobe Town area was a palomino known as Desert Dust. He was captured by Frank Robbins, a famous horse wrangler from Glenrock.
greg westfall/Flickr Desert Dust became famous in his own right when his picture was published in several papers and magazines including National Geographic, the Denver Post, and Western Life.
Although there are hundreds of horses - at one time, the number was estimated at over 1,000 - living in the Adobe Town Wilderness, they’re not the only wildlife who call it home.
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One of the largest migratory herds of antelope lives there, as well, in addition to…
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…coyotes…
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…and an assortment of raptors.
Tony Hisgett/Flickr Other animal life in the Adobe Town area include rodents like pygmy rabbits that the predators rely on as a food source.
Desolate but beautiful, you may not be able to make a reservation to stay in Adobe Town, but it’s definitely worth visiting.
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What other peculiar places do you know of in Wyoming?
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There are smaller towns in Wyoming, but none like Adobe Town.
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Desert Dust became famous in his own right when his picture was published in several papers and magazines including National Geographic, the Denver Post, and Western Life.
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Other animal life in the Adobe Town area include rodents like pygmy rabbits that the predators rely on as a food source.
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