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According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Sweet Home has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. [ 21 ] Climate data for Foster Dam , Oregon (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1969–present)
The Parting of the Ways is an historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, where the Oregon and California Trails fork from the original route to Fort Bridger to an alternative route, the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff, across the Little Colorado Desert.
By 1843 the Sweetwater River valley was a regular wagon trail providing the water, grass and fuel needed on the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails across Wyoming. The Sweetwater provided an almost direct path from the Platte and North Platte Rivers to the wide South Pass Continental Divide between the Atlantic Ocean rivers and Pacific Ocean ...
Devil's Gate or Devils Gate [1] [2] is a natural rock formation, a gorge on the Sweetwater River in Wyoming, United States, five miles (8 km) southwest of Independence Rock. [2] Although the actual route of travel did not pass through the narrow cleft, the site was a major landmark on the Oregon and Mormon trails, and is particularly ...
Martin's Cove is a historic site in Wyoming.The 933 acre (3.8 km 2) cove is located 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Casper, Wyoming, in Natrona County.It is located on the Mormon Trail and is also part of the North Platte-Sweetwater segment of the Oregon Trail.
South Pass (elevation 7,412 ft (2,259 m) and 7,550 ft (2,300 m)) is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming.It lies in a broad high region, 35 miles (56 km) wide, between the nearly 14,000 ft (4,300 m) Wind River Range to the north and the over 8,500 ft (2,600 m) Oregon Buttes [3] and arid, saline near-impassable Great Divide Basin to the south.
1872 Wyoming Territory, with Emigrant Trail and road to the Montana gold mines marked. The Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, which is the path followed by Western pioneers using the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails (collectively referred to as the Emigrant Trails), spans 400 miles (640 km) through the U.S. state of Wyoming.
The Sweetwater River Valley is a break in the Rocky Mountain chain. It thus provides a major, east-west overland route through the Rocky Mountains. This route was used by fur trappers, goldseekers, homeseekers, merchants and troopers. They rode horseback, in wagons, walked, or pulled and pushed handcarts from 1812 to 1912. [3]