Where to pan for gold in Wyoming
A free map of documented gold sites, claims and public land, plus the legends
Wyoming has documented gold occurrences, old workings and placer ground on the public record. Club 49 maps them alongside active mining claims, who manages the surface, and live creek flows, so you can see what is real and what is reachable before you drive. It is free, and you do not need an account to look.
On the map for Wyoming
| Layer | What it shows |
|---|
| Documented gold | USGS mineral records, old workings and placer ground |
| Claims & land status | BLM mining claims and who manages the surface |
| Water | Live USGS gauges and the months each creek runs lowest |
| Fossil ground | Published localities, colour-coded by whether you may collect |
| Legends | 10 mapped for Wyoming |
| Honey holes | 16 modelled for Wyoming, ranked from terrain, geology and old mine records. Open them on the map |
| Gem sites | 1 in Wyoming · see them all |
| Haunted places | 1 in Wyoming · see them all |
| Fossil sites | 4 in Wyoming · see them all |
The legends of Wyoming
- Independence Rock — The Register of the Desert, carved with the names of people walking west
- Natural Trap Cave — A hole in flat ground that collected Ice Age animals for tens of thousands of years
- Fort Phil Kearny — Built on a Friday the 13th, abandoned inside two years
- The Ferris-Haggarty mine — An English prospector’s 1897 copper strike, and the partner who did not walk away
- Gebo — Two thousand people and the biggest town in the county, gone with the coal
- Almy — Five miles of coal camp, and three explosions that killed 113 men
- The Bighorn Medicine Wheel — Twenty-eight spokes tracking the solstice at 9,642 feet
- Hole-in-the-Wall — A defensible notch that sheltered outlaw gangs for fifty years
- Devils Tower / Bear Lodge — Sacred Native landmark, first US National Monument, deep folklore
- The Lost Cabin Mine — A classic Wyoming lost-mine legend that seeded real stampedes
Gem and mineral sites in Wyoming
Haunted places in Wyoming
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Before you dig
A marker is a public record, not permission. Check ownership, active claims and the local rules first, the map shows all three.
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