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Nature Attractions In Sweetwater County

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Sweetwater County is a county located in southwestern Wyoming, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,806. Its county seat is Green River. By area, it is the largest county in Wyoming. It is in the southwestern part of Wyoming, north of the Colorado-Utah state line. Sweetwater County comprises the Rock Springs, Green River, Wyoming Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 1. Dinosaur National Monument visitor center Jensen
    Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry 40°26′29″N 109°18′04″W is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah. The nearest communities are Jensen, Utah, and Dinosaur, Colorado. The park contains over 800 paleontological sites and has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Abydosaurus and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915.
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  • 2. Expedition Island Park Green River Wyoming
    Expedition Island is a park in Green River, Wyoming, that marks the area where Major John Wesley Powell and Vitaly Develvis started an expedition down the Green River and Colorado River in 1871. The park is also believed to mark where Major Powell started a similar expedition down the two rivers in 1869. These two expeditions are generally considered to have covered the last large land area in the continental United States left unexplored by European-Americans. Expedition Island was designated a National Historic Landmark on November 24, 1968.
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  • 3. Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge Green River Wyoming
    Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in western Sweetwater County in the state of Wyoming. It covers 26,400 acres managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Shoshone people inhabited the region since the year 1300. The name Seedskadee is derived from the Shoshone language word sisk-a-dee-agie, which means river of the prairie hen. The area was first visited by white explorers in 1811 and was later a crossroads for the Oregon and Mormon Trails; many of the original wagon tracks left by early pioneers can still be seen. The refuge includes 36 miles of the Green River, which is a water source for shrubs and cottonwoods in an otherwise arid region. The refuge was established ...
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  • 4. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area Manila
    Flaming Gorge Reservoir is the largest reservoir in Wyoming, on the Green River, impounded behind the Flaming Gorge Dam. Construction on the dam began in 1958 and was completed in 1964. The reservoir stores 3,788,900 acre feet of water when measured at an elevation of 6,040 feet above sea-level .
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