Located in west central Wyoming, the Wind River Range is one of the most spectacular wilderness classrooms in the world.

NOLS students have been traveling into this remote mountain range for more than 35 years to learn leadership, mountaineering, horsepacking, and rock climbing skills. It is a land filled with high granite peaks, mountain lakes ideal for fly fishing, and sub-alpine forests. The abundant high-altitude granite and permanent snow here make it a perfect setting for learning the basics of rock climbing and mountaineering. Gannett Peak, at over 13,800 feet, is the highest peak in the middle and northern Rocky Mountains and lies in this range.

No matter what course in the Wind River Range you chose, you'll travel and learn in the region's abundant diversity, sharing the land with moose, deer, elk, bighorn sheep, fox, and an occasional black bear.