November 19, 2024
Perhaps you want to surprise your partner with a gift that reminds you of last summer’s epic vacation or you simply regret not grabbing that piece of art that called to you. In today’s world it is easier than ever to find and purchase those special gifts for yourself and your loved ones.
Take Cody Yellowstone, for example. Comprised of the Northwestern Wyoming towns of Cody, Powell and Meeteetse and surrounding area, Cody Yellowstone has attracted tourists, adventurers, rugged individualists and more than its share of makers for generations.
Artists and craftspeople create an enviable lineup of furniture, fine art, hand-made jewelry, baskets of candy, apparel, leather and much more.
Here are 23 places to buy Cody Yellowstone gifts this year:
By Western Hands Museum & Gallery
By Western Hands (BWH) is a non-profit artisan guild that showcases Western design and functional art and includes galleries and workshop space. Famed functional furniture designer Thomas Molesworth popularized a Western design style that continues to inspire modern artists. Online shoppers have many choices of exquisite hand-made items such as 30th anniversary commemorative boxes that celebrate 30 years of Western functional art and a “Deco Cowgirl Clock” by artist Kevin Showell
Love’s Gifts & Other Things
Selling kitchen, bathroom and bedroom items, Love’s also offers complimentary gift wrapping.
Points West Market in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Situated in the acclaimed Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Points West Market offers a wide range of prints, jewelry, ornaments, books and more. Every purchase supports the Center of the West, a museum and non-profit organization dedicated to preserving Western art, history, and culture for future generations.
OLIVE & PEARL
Located in the heart of Cody on Sheridan Avenue, Olive and Pearl offers a wide variety of candles and accessories. Make sure to check out the Cranberry and Chutney Candle.
Beartooth Floral & Gifts
In addition to flowers, this shop sells gift items such as a flask with a map of Cody and leather-wrapped Whiskey Wyoming Glasses.
Queen Bee Gardens
A family operation with stores in Cody and Powell, Queen Bee has been making honey for five generations. Also check out such as pure beeswax candles.
Cowtown Candy Company
Northwest Wyoming’s largest candy store is located in historic downtown Cody, Wyoming. We’re especially partial to Cowtown Crunch. The store also offers seasonal gifts such as a “Moe-velous” Huckleberry Gift Pack with fudge, hand-dipped truffles, huckleberry candy-coated popcorn, a water bottle, University of Wyoming licensed Wyoming logo chocolate bar, a milk chocolate cowboy boot set with a white chocolate cowboy hat and a mini moo plus cow.
Wyoming Gourmet Beef
In 2013 Wyoming Gourmet Beef built the first USDA processing plant in Wyoming. It offers delicious, source-verified beef snacks that are hand-cut and hand-packaged. The store sells a variety of seasonal items and gift packs such as a Holiday Trio Bundle of beef package.
Heart Mountain WWII Interpretive Center
Heart Mountain was a WWII confinement camps housing some 14,000 Japanese-American citizens. Opened in August 2011, the center explores that difficult period of the country’s history with thoughtful exhibits that encourage visitors to ask the question “could this happen today?” The online store sells a variety of books, toys and crafts and apparel.
Wyoming Buffalo Company
Wyoming Buffalo Company offers the highest-quality hickory smoked bison, venison summer sausage and salami as well as an assortment of huckleberry, chokecherry, mooseberry and buffaloberry products. There is also a selection of gift packs such as Buffalo Bill’s Wild Western Sampler – with six different kinds of sausage, barbecue sauce, cheese, cow pies and mustard – and the Wild West Spice Basket, with Wyoming-made spice blends.
Meeteetse Chocolatier
What started out as a way for rodeo rider Tim Kellog to raise funds for a new saddle turned into a popular business. Visitors love his mouth-watering truffles, treats, cakes and desserts. The shop sells and ships seasonal treats like candy cane bark and egg nog truffles as well as custom truffles such as Bailey’s Irish Cream truffles and jalapeno truffles. Gift certificates are also available.
Wyoming Heritage Grains
Wyoming Heritage Grains in Powell is a family owned and operated farm in that raises beef cattle and alfalfa hay. The farmland once belonged to Buffalo Bill Cody. The store sells a variety of grain products like White Sonora Buttermilk Pancake Mix and Homestead Series Hot Cereal. Gift cards are also available.
Rock Star Cowgirl
Rock Star Cowgirl is a gallery of local artisans that is also Cody’s local bead store, offering classes and parties at its “Bead Bar.” They also carry custom designed boots by Tres Outlaws, fine art by Gail Cole and Wild at Heart Images and handmade belt buckles using Swarvoski crystals and gemstones.
Custom Cowboy Shop
Established in 1976, Custom Cowboy Shop is still owned and operated by the same family. The shop offers top-quality cowboy gear and clothing, ranging from felt hats and bolo ties for men to women’s paisley Western shirts and wool jackets. There’s also a huge selection of gear for horses and an impressive array of Western books and household and kitchen goods, including a steak branding iron.
MTN GRL Wyoming
This upbeat and happy boutique is filled with Western-fusion inspired fashion for women and men, as well as fabulous gifts and home décor. Many items can be purchased online.
Seidel’s Saddlery
Saddle maker and leather craftsman Keith Seidel builds functional art pieces that include saddles, briefcases, desk accessories, belts, gun leather and other specialty items.
Wayne’s Boots
In business in downtown Cody since 1955, Wayne’s Boots carries everything from casual and comfort shoes to hiking and hunting boots. Online shoppers have a wide selection of options. The shop also sells gift cards.
Buffalo Bill Harley Davidson
Visitors who rode their motorcycles to the region probably had little room for trinkets. This shop offers custom items to commemorate trips as well as a large selection of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel and home goods.
Sitti’s Table
This popular Cody restaurant has made a name for itself with its fresh take on Lebanese food. For a taste of Cody back home, order some of The Matriarch, a medium roast Honduras coffee roasted in Wyoming.
Legends Bookstore Bookshop
While this bookstore carries works for all tastes, we suggest the “contemporary apocalyptic western” Dissolution: The Wyoming Chronicles: Book One by W. Michael Gear.
Hillside Floral
This Powell store handles flowers for all occasions as well as fun, decorative and luxury gift items and fruit baskets.
Sunlight Sports
Sunlit Trails, a new guidebook at Sunlight Sports, contains almost 100 trail descriptions for adventures from just outside of Cody to Yellowstone to the Bighorns. There are quick trips, rugged day hikes and overnight backpacking trips through our iconic wilderness areas. Local authors hiked every mile of every trail in Sunlit Trails.
Timmer Gallery
Artist Brian Timmer runs his art studio, gallery and store in downtown Cody. Check out his landscape art, murals and paintings.
For more, be sure to check out our Holiday Gift Guide.