Medicine Bow Mountains

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The Medicine Bow Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. From the northern end of the Front Range, the range extends north from Cameron Pass along the border between Larimer and Jackson counties in Colorado northward into south central Wyoming west of Laramie, to the route of the Union Pacific Railroad. The highest peak in the range is Medicine Bow Peak (12,013 ft), located in the northern end of the range in southwestern Albany County, Wyoming. Much of the range is located within the Medicine Bow National Forest. The range runs northward from the Never Summer Mountains on the continental divide. The range is drained along is western flank by the Michigan and Canadian rivers, tributaries of the North Platte in North Park. On its eastern flank it is drained by the Laramie River, another tributary of the North Platte. In Wyoming this range is commonly know as the Snowy Range.

This mountain range is also home to some of the remains of a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, operated under United Airlines Flight 409. The aircraft crashed into Medicine Bow Peak on October 6, 1955, killing all 66 people on board (63 passengers, 3 crew members.)