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Sunlight Creek begins in the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains and then flows east into the Sunlight Basin. The creek then flows through a granite canyon carved by the creek, Sunlight Gorge, where it is crossed by the Sunlight Creek Bridge, the highest bridge in the state of Wyoming. [2]
Highest point; Elevation: 11,927 ft (3,635 m) [1] Prominence: 962 ft (293 m) [1] Coordinates: 2]: Geography; Location: Park County, Wyoming, U.S.: Parent range: Absaroka Range: Topo map: USGS Sunlight Peak WY: Geology; Mountain type: Stratovolcano: Volcanic arc: Absaroka Range: Last eruption: Around 43 million years ago [3]: Climbing; First ascent: Unknown: Easiest route: Scramble class III ...
Sunlight Creek Bridge is a steel beam bridge in Park County, Wyoming, United States in the Shoshone National Forest and is the highest bridge in the state. [3] It carries Chief Joseph Scenic Byway (Wyoming Highway 296) and pedestrian walkways on each side over the 285.4 ft (87.0 m) Sunlight Gorge carved by Sunlight Creek.
A map of the counties and capital city of Wyoming. The U.S. state of Wyoming lies in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States and has a varied geography. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the southwest, and Colorado to the south.
According to the United States Board on Geographic Names, there are at least 109 named mountain ranges and sub-ranges in Wyoming. Wyoming / w aɪ ˈ oʊ m ɪ ŋ / ⓘ is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. Wyoming is the 10th most extensive, but the least populous and the 2nd least densely populated of the 50 United States.
In 1901, Andrew Bugas was elected to the Wyoming State Legislature (as a Republican) and served six terms until 1907. Andrew and Helena Bugas married in 1902 and from 1903 to 1929 had a total of eight sons and two daughters. [5] Jack Bugas was born in 1908 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. In 1909, the Bugas family moved to Wamsutter, Wyoming.
The site was found during the construction of the Sunlight Basin Road in 1967. The location was used as a butchering site, and excavations by the University of Wyoming in 1969 uncovered numerous stone tools, as well as the bones of elk, deer, mountain sheep, porcupine and wolf. A stone cairn was found to contain antler sets.
Geothermal area (now largely dormant) encountered by explorer and mountain man John Colter (c. 1770–c. 1812) in 1807; the first definitive place in Wyoming described by a Euro-American. [12] 10: Dead Indian Campsite: May 3, 1974 : Sunlight Basin Road [13] Cody vicinity