Today’s Bighorn Mountain Trail and Snow Conditions

Mountain Streams:
(Including Clear Creek, Crazy Woman Creek, Rock Creek, Piney Creek and Tensleep Creek and their tributaries)

Bighorn mountain streams are frozen over for the season.

Mountain Lakes:
(Including Tie Hack Reservoir, Meadowlark Lake, and Cloud Peak Wilderness Lakes)

All mountain lakes are frozen. Folks are fishing at Tie Hack Reservoir and Meadowlark Lake. Small jigs or Swedish Pimples tipped with a mealworm or wax worm will be effective.

Prarie Streams:
(Including Clear Creek, Crazy Woman Creek, Rock Creek and Piney Creek)

All Big Horn Area streams are frozen over for the season.

Lake Desmet:
Lake DeSmet still hasn't frozen over. The water is cold and fish are sluggish. We are waiting for ice.

Prairie Lakes and Ponds:
(Including Healy Reservoir, and Muddy Guard Reservoirs)

There is good ice at Healy Reservoir. Folks are fishing with Crappie Rigs and worm chunks and meal worms. Also, small jigs or Swedish Pimples tipped with mealworms or wax worms are also effective.

General Info:
Winter conditions have set in.

Forest Service Road Conditions:
Forest Service Roads are mostly closed and snowed shut.

Cloud Peak Wilderness Trails:
Cloud Peak Wilderness trails are snowed in.

Cloud Peak Wilderness Lakes:
Cloud Peak Wilderness lakes are frozen and snow is 12"-18" deep in the Wilderness.

Snow and Skiing Conditions:
Meadowlark Ski Area is open and conditions are good on groomed runs. Off-Piste is thin and rocky.