Ten Sleep, WY

Ten Sleep is a town in Washakie County, Wyoming, United States. The 2020 census counted 260 residents. Ten Sleep is located in the Bighorn Basin in the western foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, approximately 26 miles east of Worland and 59 miles west of Buffalo. Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days' travel, or "10 sleeps," from Fort Laramie, Yellowstone National Park, and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana. Near the entrance to nearby Ten Sleep Canyon is the former site of the Girl Scout National Center West, a portion of which was one of the largest encampments in the world, at 15,000 acres.

Other industries include mineral extraction and tourism. Ten Sleep School, a K–12 campus, serves the town. Ten Sleep's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Wyoming setting. The local scoop is how Ten Sleep's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.