How Do You Celebrate Flaming Gorge Days In Wyoming?
With the aid of the Union Pacific Railroad delivering his men and his boats to the town of Green River, John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran with only one arm, embarked on a historical journey down the Green River, through Utah’s canyonlands, where the Green joins the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, which he was successfully able to navigate. The embarkation point is known as Expedition Island and in honor of the event, the town of Green River, Wyoming, holds an annual celebration on the last weekend of June. Make hotel reservations. Green River and its sister city of Rock Springs are small Wyoming towns of approximately 20,000 people each. Though both are located on Interstate 80, a major east/west corridor, rooms tend to be scarce for this event. Alternate cities are Evanston to the west, Rawlins to the east, or Pinedale to the north, with each being nearly 100 miles away. Fly into Salt Lake International Airport. At just over 150 miles, Salt Lake is much closer than
