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Perched almost 9,700 feet above sea level on Medicine Mountain in Wyoming’s Bighorn Range, the Medicine Wheel is an 80-foot-diameter circular structure made from limestone boulders. Twenty-eight spokes radiate from a central cairn, and six additional cairns are positioned around the wheel’s perimeter. While more than 100 similar circular stone monuments have been found throughout the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada, the Medicine Wheel is the best preserved and among the large
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