The Wind River Visitors Council Adventure Trek Series invites you to join Craig Bromley as we visit the famous Oregon Trail near South Pass. During our trek we will learn the significance of this particular site along the trail and its historical significance to Native Americans, Mountain and Emigrants who stopped here on their journeys west.
The Riverton Museum is hosting Allan Maybee and Roger Melton for this Wyoming Community Bank Discovery Speaker Series on June 12th from 6-7:30pm.Historians Allan Maybee and Roger Melton will be presenting on their record breaking 2001 expedition where they traveled 5,100 miles from New Orleans to the Pacific Ocean on their Genesis I jet ski, following the route taken by Lewis and Clark’s expedition at the start of the nineteenth century.
Participants should meet at the Riverton Museum at 9am and we will drive as a group to Castle Gardens. There will not be a bus provided. Everyone is responsible for bringing their own sack lunch and water. $10.00 per person. View the petroglyphs at Castle Gardens and learn about the Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to preserve them. Reservations are required. This trek requires a good amount of walking so please dress accordingly.
Libby Flats, a new novel by Alan O’Hashi, who lived in Lander for many years. It is a coming –of-age story about how old and new friends confront their differences and discover the power of forgiveness. The story happens during the twilight time of life when long-lost pals are closer than family and culminates at Libby Flats in the Medicine Bow National Forest.