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White settlers arrived during the 1870s and established farms on the floor of the canyon which provided fresh fruit and grains for nearby miners at South Pass City and Atlantic City. Today, much of the canyon floor is owned by the Nature Conservancy which maintains the land as a working ranch. The canyon is listed as a National Natural Landmark.
Red Creek Ranch Road WYO 175: 0.32: 0.51 US 20 and WYO 789 west of Kirby: West Main Street in Kirby — — Kirby Road WYO 176 — — — — — — Now Owl Hill Creek Road. May have been part of the current WYO 120 alignment WYO 185 — — US 20/US 26/US 87 in Douglas: MT 59 near Gillette: 1934: 1936 Replaced by WYO 387, now WYO 59: WYO 190 ...
Lander is a city and the county seat of Fremont County, Wyoming. It is located in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River, just south of the Wind River Indian Reservation. It is a tourism center with several nearby guest ranches. Its population was 7,546 at the 2020 census. [5]
Wyoming Highway 131 begins its southern end at the northern boundary of the Shoshone National Forest at Sinks Canyon State Park, hence its name Sinks Canyon Road. WYO 131 travels northeast to Lander, entering from the southwest. Upon entering, WYO 131 turns east and becomes Fremont Street before turning north onto South 5th Street. [2]
Twin Creek, [3] Red Canyon Creek [3] The Little Popo Agie River runs through unincorporated portions of Fremont County Wyoming . The river's headwaters are at Christina Lake in the Wind River Range , and it flows a total of 58 miles (93 km) [ 3 ] until its end near Hudson, Wyoming .
1959-1968 Cubic feet per second of the Middle Fork Popo Agie River below the Sinks Near Lander, Wy [4] The Middle Fork Popo Agie near Sinks Canyon in fall.. The Middle Fork is fed from spring sources, seasonal precipitation and annual snow melt, irrigation return flows, several tributaries including the Sawmill, Hornecker, and Baldwin Creeks, and the North Fork of the Popo Agie River. [5]
Sinks Canyon State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area located in the Wind River Mountains, six miles (9.7 km) southwest of Lander, Wyoming, on Wyoming Highway 131. The state park is named for a portion of the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River where it flows into an underground limestone cavern, named "the Sinks," and ...
In 1859, 13,000 [18] of the 19,000 [19] emigrants traveling to California and Oregon utilized the Lander Road. The traffic in later years is undocumented. The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.