Teeter Arch

Teeter Arch at Windy Point

This is a very zoomed-in photo of an arch in Wind River Canyon about halfway between Thermopolis and Boysen Reservoir.  I have not been able to identify the name of it, so I have been calling it either Teeter Arch, because of its location inside Teeter Canyon, or Windy Point Arch because it can be viewed about .2 miles north of Windy Point in a large pull-out.  Someone online referred to it as "Eye of the Needle Arch," but the Eye of the Needle Arch is in north-east Yellowstone.  For now I'm going to refer to it as Teeter Arch.

If you're driving Highway 789 from Shoshone to Thermopolis, enter "Windy Point" in your google maps.  Exactly .2 miles north of Windy Point there's a pull-out on the left.  Park here and hop out of the car and begin surveying the skyline across the river.  You can see the arch with your naked eye, but it might take a minute to locate it.

I'm not sure if the arch can be accessed, and since it is on the Wind River Indian Reservation a permit would be required to explore.  But it appears to me that we could potentially cross the river and hike up Teeter Canyon to get closer to the arch.  It is up in the cliffs so I doubt that getting right under it would be possible, but if we were allowed to explore out there we could definitely get closer to the arch.  I'm guessing it is a mile or two past the viewing area on the highway.  We looked for a map of roads in and around Teeter Canyon, but haven't been able to determine a direct route to the arch's location.

In the meantime we'll just have to view the arch from the pull-out on highway 789.

The location of Windy Point is here:  Google Maps Location

The pull-out on highway 789.  A lot of people park in this pull-out to fish in the Bighorn River.

The view from the pull-out

The arch is in this photo, but you'll have to zoom in to find it.

The arch is in the very center of this photo.  I used a zoom lens to capture multiple photos of the arch

The arch is much longer than it appears, because half of it has sky through it and the other half has mountain behind it.  It is a very long arch.

If there is a road or trail above, then the arch would be easily accessed to at least view.  

This was my last view of the arch as we started to drive down the highway again and I tried to keep the arch in my viewfinder for as long as possible before it disappeared behind this adjoining mountain