Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

After leaving Alpine, and still working our way through the month of June, our next stop was Green River, Wyoming. Only about 200 miles south and east of Alpine, it made for a short and pleasant travel day. The highlight of our stay in Green River was visiting the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Located in the northeast corner of Utah and southwest corner of Wyoming, the area covers 207,363 acres of scenic landscape and wilderness. The recreation centerpiece, though, is the 91 miles long Flaming Gorge Reservoir, with the Green River and Flaming Gorge Dam coming in a close second. Made of spectacular red canyon walls and green forests, with the river carving blue ribbons throughout, this was one of the most spectacular example of natural beauty I’ve seen anywhere. It’s amazing what 3 billion years of mountain building, river carving, and basin formation can do!