Bridger Mountains (Wyoming)

The Bridger Mountains are a short subrange of the Rocky Mountains, approximately 40 miles (64 km) long, in central Wyoming in the United States.

The Wind River passes through the gap between the range and the Owl Creek Mountains.

Bridger Creek passes through the gap between the range and the Bighorns.

The highest point in the range is Copper Mountain at 8,317 feet (2,535 m).

[2] Bates Creek in the eastern part of the range is the location of Bates Battlefield, a significant battle on July 4, 1874, in which the U.S. Army soldiers from Camp Brown (Today's Fort Washakie) with 167 Shoshone scouts attacked the village of Chief Black Coal (Northern Arapaho), killing at least 34 Northern Arapahos.