Wyoming trout water
Explore Blue, Red, Yellow and Green Ribbon trout reaches classified by Wyoming Game and Fish. Find public-land context, public access areas, Forest Service fishing facilities and river gauges.
- Classified trout waters
- 2,954
- Waters with Blue Ribbon reaches
- 29
- Nearby Forest Service facilities
Check the access and the rules. A Ribbon classification does not grant access. Highlights show mapped open-access public land or WGFD Public Access Areas; leased access areas can have site-specific restrictions. Read the current Wyoming rules and check access-area details.
Check before you fish. Access, stocking and regulations here come from Wyoming's own data and can be out of date. Posted signs and landowners' wishes come first, and private land needs permission. The rules that apply are in the Wyoming fishing regulations, and you need a valid fishing license.
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Categories from WGFD stream classification guide. Bold where the stream crosses public land; faint and dashed across private land. Gauges are measurement stations; a nearby gauge may be on a different stream.
Stream types · Wyoming
- Green Ribbon
- Yellow Ribbon
- Red Ribbon
- Blue Ribbon
- Public land
Bold where the stream crosses public land
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Layers, public land, access and sources
Ribbon filters describe classified trout reaches in the state’s GIS. Blue, Red, Yellow and Green correspond to progressively lower trout-biomass ranges in the source classification. They describe monitoring estimates, not guaranteed catches or current population counts. Orange warmwater reaches, unclassified water and unnamed records are omitted. This is not a complete inventory of all fishable Wyoming water.
Waterbody identifiers keep similarly named streams separate. A water can contain multiple Ribbon classes; turn off higher layers to inspect overlapping colors. Source names sometimes include a numbered section or an upstream/downstream qualifier.
Public context combines open-access fee-owned PAD-US land with WGFD Public Access Area boundaries and a roughly 20-meter bank tolerance. Access areas may include leased land. Walk-In Fishing agreements are not included in this overlay. Check current dates, permitted activities, signs and legal entry points.
Facility markers are Forest Service fishing and boating sites near mapped water, not a complete access inventory or verified parking coordinates. Public access areas are shown as boundaries rather than invented point locations.
National park fishing has separate permits, rules and closures. For Yellowstone, use the National Park Service fishing guide; the state classification layer does not provide complete park coverage.
Sources
- Trout reaches: Wyoming Game and Fish stream categorization and its public GIS layer.
- Public Access Area boundaries: Wyoming Game and Fish. Facility points: USDA Forest Service recreation-site data.
- Public land: USGS PAD-US 4.1. Counties: US Census TIGERweb. Gauges: USGS Water Data APIs.
- Downloaded October 15, 2026. Map tiles: OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap contributors.