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The Best Attractions In Glendo

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Glendo is a town in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 205 at the 2010 census.
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  • 1. Glendo Reservoir Glendo
    Glendo Reservoir is a reservoir located on the North Platte River in Platte County and Converse County in the U.S. State of Wyoming. The reservoir is formed by Glendo Dam. The earthfill dam is 2,096 feet feet long and 190 feet high and contains two hydroelectric turbines capable of generating 38 megawatts of power. The reservoir retains a maximum of 1,170,505 acre feet of water used primarily for irrigation and flood control. The reservoir is popular for water sports and fishing. It is located completely within Glendo State Park.
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  • 2. Fort Laramie National Historic Site Fort Laramie
    The Treaty of Fort Laramie was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota and Arapaho Nation, following the failure of the first Fort Laramie treaty, signed in 1851. The treaty was divided into 17 articles. It established the Great Sioux Reservation including ownership of the Black Hills, and set aside additional lands as unceded Indian territory in areas of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and possibly Montana. It established that the US government would hold authority to punish not only white settlers who committed crimes against the tribes, but also tribe members who committed crimes and who were to be delivered to the government rather than face charges in a tribal courts. It stipulated that the government ...
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  • 4. Oregon Trail Ruts Guernsey
    The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. The eastern part of the Oregon Trail spanned part of the future state of Kansas, and nearly all of what are now the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. The western half of the trail spanned most of the future states of Idaho and Oregon. The Oregon Trail was laid by fur traders and traders from about 1811 to 1840, and was only passable on foot or by horseback. By 1836, when the first migrant wagon train was organized in Independence, Missouri, a wagon trail had been cleared to Fort Hall, Idaho. Wagon trails were cleared increasingly farther west, and eventually reached all the way to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, at w...
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  • 5. Agate Fossil Beds Harrison Nebraska
    Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main features of the monument are a valley of the Niobrara River and the fossils found on Carnegie Hill and University Hill. The area largely consists of grass-covered plains. Plants on the site include prairie sandreed, blue grama, little bluestem and needle and thread grass, and the wildflowers lupin, spiderwort, western wallflower and sunflowers.
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  • 6. Guernsey State Park Guernsey
    Guernsey is a town in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,147 at the 2010 census. The town was named for C. A. Guernsey, a cattle rancher.
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  • 7. Register Cliffs Guernsey
    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Platte County, Wyoming. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.There are 11 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 3 of which are National Historic Landmarks. One previous listing has been removed from the Register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 2, 2018.
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