Area 98 covers the country south of Lander including the Sweetwater Rocks, South Pass, Atlantic City, and the granite-outcrop country running to the Continental Divide. Elevations run from about 6,500 feet on the lower benches to over 11,000 feet on the higher Wind River foothills. The Sweetwater Rocks are a series of dramatic Precambrian granite outcrops rising out of the surrounding sage steppe—Granite Peak, Whiskey Mountain, Devils Gate, and Independence Rock are all in or near the unit. The country is a strange and beautiful mix: rolling sage and bunchgrass, granite outcrop fields where the rock has been worn smooth, scattered limber pine and aspen pockets in the better-watered draws, and the Sweetwater River cutting through with cottonwoods and the ghosts of the Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails. Atlantic City is the historic gold-mining town with one tavern and a lot of character. BLM dominates with Shoshone NF on the higher western flank and a slice of the Popo Agie Wilderness adjacent. WY-28 (the South Pass Highway) is the paved access; the dirt roads to Atlantic City and South Pass are graded gravel. Lander is the full-service supply town; Atlantic City has the Mercantile (historic, photo-worthy) and the Atlantic City Mercantile bar. Cell service drops past town. Antelope on the sage steppe, mule deer in the granite outcrop country and aspen pockets, elk in the timbered foothills. The country is genuinely empty and beautiful.