Area 23 sits squarely on the Bighorn Basin floor between Greybull and Lovell, taking in the irrigated ag corridor along the Bighorn River, the Shoshone River drainage, and the surrounding sagebrush benches and badlands. Elevations run from about 3,800 feet on the river bottoms to 6,000 feet on the surrounding sage flats. The country is open: big sagebrush, greasewood, rabbitbrush, and bunchgrass on the benches, with cottonwoods and willows along the rivers and the irrigation canals that supply the sugar beet, malt barley, and alfalfa fields that define the basin's economy. Eroded badland formations break the monotony in places; the famous Spanish Diggings and red-rock benches add visual drama. Yellowtail Reservoir (Bighorn Lake) sits up north on the Montana line and provides reliable water for the lower basin. BLM holds significant chunks of the surrounding open country, with state trust sections and substantial private ranch and ag land filling in. The HMAs and Walk-In ranches in this country open productive private ground—the basin is checkerboarded enough that knowing the access programs is the whole game. US-14/16/20 and WY-310 are the paved spine; county roads thread the basin. Greybull and Lovell are the supply towns—gas, motels, and the kind of Wyoming small-town diner you want to know about. Cell service is fair on the highways. Antelope rifle in October is the headline; the basin holds excellent pronghorn numbers and the open country lets you cover ground glassing from a truck. Mule deer use the breaks; whitetail use the river bottoms. Wind blows steady—the basin is one of the windiest stretches in the state.