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Fort Caspar was partially reconstructed in 1936 using sketches made by Lieutenant Collins in 1863. The fort itself underwent a lot of changes during its occupation, and the current recreation reflects the post in 1863-1865. The City of Casper now operates a museum at the site, which features reconstructed log buildings, including a wooden ...
Bear River State Park: Uinta: 324 131: 1991: Within the city limits of Evanston: Boysen State Park: Fremont: 35,952 14,549: 1956: Surrounds the Boysen Reservoir Buffalo Bill State Park: Park: 11,276 4,563: 1957: Surrounds the Buffalo Bill Reservoir Curt Gowdy State Park: Laramie: 3,395 1,374: 1971: Recreation on and around three reservoirs ...
The Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites is the Wyoming state agency that administers its state parks. Also known as Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites & Trails, the agency is headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming. [1]
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized ... Fort Apache Reservation: Apache: ... Wind River Reservation: Wyoming ...
Wyoming Highway 258 begins its western end at US 20 Business/US 26 Business (Yellowstone Highway) in Mills and from there travels counter-clockwise around Casper. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] WYO 258 heads south and crosses the North Platte River before intersecting W. 13th Street, which also provides access to Fort Caspar .
The Wind River Reservation dropout rate is 40%, more than twice the state average of Wyoming. Teenagers are twice as likely to commit suicide compared to other young adults within Wyoming. [ 37 ] There are other issues that commonly occur on the reservation such as child abuse, teenage pregnancy, sexual assault, domestic violence, and alcoholism.
Casper was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, in an area that attracted European settlers during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails, [8] where several nearby ferries offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s.
Curt Gowdy State Park is a public recreation area covering 3,395 acres (5.3 sq mi; 13.7 km 2) in Albany and Laramie counties in Wyoming, United States. It is located on Wyoming Highway 210 (Happy Jack Road), halfway between Cheyenne and Laramie , about 24 miles (40 km) from each.