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Mount Lander (12,623 ft (3,847 m)) is located in the central Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [4] Mount Lander is within the Wind River Indian Reservation.The Lander Glacier consists of three distinct glaciers on the north and west slopes of Mount Lander, with the westernmost glacier being the largest.
A Shoshone encampment in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, photographed by W. H. Jackson, 1870 Green River Lakes and Squaretop Mountain [2] Titcomb Lakes Looking across the Bonneville Basin to Mount Bonneville and Raid Peak. The Wind River Range (or "Winds" for short) is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the ...
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 ...
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]
The Wind River Indian Reservation established a 180,000-acre (730 km 2) roadless area in the Wind River Range in the 1930s, several decades before the passage of the national Wilderness Act of 1964. The tribes have re-established populations of big game , such as moose , wolf , elk , mule deer , whitetail deer , bighorn sheep and pronghorn ...
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]
Amy Joy Wroe Bechtel (August 4, 1972 [4] – disappeared July 24, 1997; [5] declared legally dead 2004) was an American woman who disappeared while jogging in the Wind River Range approximately 15 miles southwest of Lander, Wyoming.
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.