Mountain ranges ring the Northwest campus in northern Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. To the east, the Big Horn Mountains include the Medicine Wheel, a Native American religious site, and the Cloud Peak primitive area. To the west, the Shoshone National Forest, the first in the U.S., includes the Absaroka and Beartooth ranges as well as Wyoming's only federal wild and scenic river. As part of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the Shoshone contains part of the largest continuous wilderness in the lower 48 states.
Yellowstone National Park, just over an hour's drive from NWC, remains an enduring source of wonder that has attracted photographers from William Henry Jackson to the present. But NWC remains as diverse as the nearby landscapes, from commercial studio illustration and portraiture to the latest in multimedia and digital imaging.
