Ads
related to: north platte river wyoming guides and lodging cabins
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The fort was built in 1868 where the railroad crossed the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming. Work on the fort was carried out by military and civilian labor. Fort Steele was one of three forts built on the line. Fort Sanders (originally Fort John Buford) near Laramie and Fort D.A. Russell at Cheyenne were the other railroad forts.
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 ...
Platte County: 34.17 13.83: Remnants of the Oregon Trail's westward migration worn into sandstone Piedmont Charcoal Kilns: Uinta County.886 0.359: 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 ...
Southern side of the North Platte River, .5 mi (0.80 km) south of Guernsey: Guernsey: 8: Patten Creek Site: Patten Creek Site: September 11, 1989 : Address Restricted: Hartville: 9: Platte County Courthouse: Platte County Courthouse: October 15, 2008
Beginning not far from the source of the North Platte River, Northgate Canyon is the river's gateway north. The water follows the western flank of the Park Range in Colorado as it plunges at approximately 20 ft/mile through the canyon. The high gradient produces some of Colorado's and Wyoming's best Class III+ rapids, including Windy Hole ...
Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site is a preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, about 0.5 miles south of Guernsey, Wyoming. The Oregon Trail here was winding up towards South Pass. Here, wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the trail into a sandstone ridge about two to six feet, during its ...