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 (61 km2).

A part of that site is now owned and operated by the Nature Conservancy as the Tensleep Preserve, with facilities for workshops and seminars.

From 1919 to 1943 the store was operated by Paul Frison, who served as mayor of Ten Sleep and as a Wyoming state legislator.

Beyond the traditional activities such as hunting, fishing and horseback riding, outdoor enthusiasts today are found within a few miles of Ten Sleep participating in rock climbing, kayaking, spelunking, mountain biking, off-highway vehicle riding and camping, which draw explorers from near and far.

Kids still wade in Ten Sleep Creek at the City Park and catch trout anywhere along the stream as it meanders through town.

The main street is also closed to through traffic to accommodate live music that lasts into the wee hours of the morning.

[7] An eclectic mixture of folk, bluegrass, swing, jazz and rock makes this wonderful celebration of music a destination for locals, neighbors and worldwide tourists.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.18 square miles (0.47 km2), all land.

[10] Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days' travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie (southeast),[14] Yellowstone National Park (west-northwest)[citation needed], and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana (northwest)[citation needed].

There are numerous archeological sites throughout the area, with frequent discoveries of artifacts such as arrowheads, pictographs and petroglyphs.

Ten Sleep was also the site of the Spring Creek Raid, one of the last feuds of the West's Sheep and Cattlemen's War.

Caught and convicted, this was the end of major conflict, although it was many years before the two livestock growers' groups resolved their differences.

[15] The yellowish-gray to white sandstone which forms much of Ten Sleep Canyon is named the Tensleep Formation (Pennsylvanian), and dominates much of the western slope of the Bighorn Mountains.

Called the "Painted Desert" or "Colored Hills" by locals, the Cloverly Formation is finely granuled sandstone, clay and "gumbo".

The Cloverly formations contains bands of various mineral colors ranging from greens and grays to red and violets, and are closely associated with strata containing dinosaur fossils.

Numerous signs along U.S. 16 from Buffalo, through Ten Sleep and west to Worland identify the various geologic formations and their millennia.

Public education in the town of Ten Sleep is provided by Washakie County School District #2.