The great expanse of Wyoming’s Red Desert is over 9,000 square miles of high altitude desert and sagebrush steppe. Among the area’s unique landscapes are the rainbow-colored honeycomb buttes, as well as the Killpecker Sand Dunes, which is the country’s largest living dune system.

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