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Remnants of the charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming Platte River Crossing: Carbon County: 7 2.8: Point at which the Overland Trail crossed the North Platte River: Point of Rocks Stage Station: Sweetwater County: 1 0.40: Meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad: Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility: Laramie ...
Glendo State Park is a public recreation area surrounding Glendo Reservoir on the North Platte River in Platte and Converse counties in Wyoming in the United States. [3] The state park is located near the town of Glendo, about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of the city of Douglas. It is managed by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites.
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.
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 ...
Guernsey State Park is a public recreation area surrounding the Guernsey Reservoir, an impoundment of the North Platte River, one mile northwest of the town of Guernsey in Platte County, Wyoming. The state park has campgrounds, boat ramps and hiking trails as well as exceptional examples of structures created by the Civilian Conservation Corps ...
Following construction of the Seminoe Dam and Reservoir in the 1930s, the state of Wyoming created the state park in 1965 through an agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. [4] The name Seminoe-- a corruption of the French name Cimineau -- derives from the French trapper, Basil Cimineau Lajeunesse, who was active in the area in the 1800s ...
A report compiled by Outdoorsy, using the Recreation.gov data, shows that California saw the most number of reservations on U.S. public land in 2020, tallying more than 600,000 with Yosemite ...
Surrounding the reservoir is Boysen State Park, run by the state of Wyoming. It includes 11 campgrounds spread around the reservoir and nearby area. The reservoir is a popular sporting area with numerous species of fish including walleye, perch, crappie, channel catfish, as well as rainbow and brown trout and several other species.