Travel Reference
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Absaroka Bicycles
Offline map
( 307-527-5566; 2201 17th St, Kmart Plaza; 10am-6pmMon-Sat) Ground central
for mountain-bike rentals ($45 per day), repairs, tours and info on local fat-tire trails, in-
cluding to Cedar Mountain, where many locals believe Buffalo Bill to be buried.
BIKES
Sunlight Sports
Offline map
( 307-587-9517; www.sunlightsports.com ; 1131 Sheridan Ave) Cody's best gear shop
offers backpacking gear rentals, bear spray, topo maps and local trail information. Jackson
Hole Mountain Guides has a local office here.
OUTDOOR GEAR
HEARTLAND SECURITY
Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in 10 camps
across the US. Of these, nearly 11,000 were interned in Heart Mountain Relocation Center ( 307-250-5542;
www.heartmountain.org ; Rd 19 off Hwy 14A; admission free ), 14 miles northeast of Cody, creating Wyoming's
third-largest city. Taking only what they could carry, Japanese-Americans relocated from West Coast homes to these
flimsy tar-paper rooms and made the best of three years of confinement there, setting up a newspaper, two theaters
and a high school. Only the former hospital and chimney remain from the original buildings but a memorial and
new barracks-style interpretive center tells the still relevant story of how - temporarily seized by xenophobia - the
US failed its own citizens 60 years ago.
Red Canyon Wild Mustang Trips
( 800-293-0148; 1119 12th St; mid-May-mid-Oct) For something different take a
morning or afternoon van tour (adult/child $29/27) out to the desert badlands of the
McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Range, a refuge designated for 142 wild mustangs. For
more information on the horses, check out the nonprofit FOAL
( www.friendsofalegacy.org ) . Photo safaris are also possible.
TOURS
 
 
 
 
 
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