Area 68 covers the southern Wind River Range proper and the Popo Agie Wilderness country southwest of Lander. Elevations run from about 6,500 feet at the trailheads on the range front to over 13,000 feet on the high Wind River granite—Wind River Peak (13,192 feet) and the surrounding cirque country form the heart of the unit. The Winds here are spectacular: glacially carved cirques, sheer granite walls, alpine lakes, persistent snowfields, and timbered drainages full of lodgepole, Engelmann spruce, and subalpine fir on the lower flanks. The Popo Agie Wilderness covers about 102,000 acres of roadless high country. Sinks Canyon, where the Popo Agie River disappears into a limestone cave and reappears a quarter-mile downstream at the Rise, is the iconic landmark on the range front. Shoshone National Forest and the Popo Agie Wilderness dominate, with BLM and private on the lower foothills. Sinks Canyon Road (WY-131) from Lander climbs to trailheads at about 9,000 feet; Loop Road over the range is a serious gravel route that's worth the drive when conditions allow. Lander is the full-service town. Cell service drops past town. Pack-in country for the high lakes and basins; you can hunt the lower forest from a truck camp but the wilderness produces the better mule deer and bighorn opportunities. The granite terrain is genuinely rugged—prepare for steep, exposed routes and storms that build fast off the divide.