Annual Festivals:Park County Fair - July 24 - 28, 2007, Wings ‘N’ Wheels 2007 - August 17 & 18
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Located in the heart of the Big Horn Basin, Powell lies just 75 miles east of Yellowstone National Park on US 14A, and is surrounded by the Big Horn, Pryor, and Absaroka mountain ranges. Powell was named for Major John Wesley Powell, famed proponent of west¬ern land reclamation and early explorer of the Rocky Mountain West. Although Powell never visited the community this important trading center was named in his honor.
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The Homesteaders Museum fea¬tures Powell's early settlers and a docu¬mentary about the Heart Mountain Relocation Center west of town. During World War II, the center was the third largest city in Wyoming when 11,000 Americans of Japanese descent were interned there. The remains of the center can be visited. The historic site features and eight station walking tour and a memorial honor roll and park.
Most of the major Indian-military battles in Wyoming occurred during the 1860s in the Powder River Basin as Northern Plains tribes rebuffed efforts to establish forts in their territory. In August of 1865 troops led by General Patrick Connor attacked a camp of Arapahos at a site that is now a town park in Ranchester. read more
Five Springs Falls Recreation Site, along Hwy 14A about 25 miles east of Lovell, provides unique vertical cliff habitat that is kept moist by the spray from a 100 foot waterfall. The granite walls surrounding the falls provide a home for four rare and sensitive plant species. read more
