, 1922-12-14
Wind River Canyon
Resort.

(By Fred Pattee)
Almost everybody in Casper and
vicinity has heard OF Wind River Can.
yon. but very few persons in this vi.
oinity know that II is n game pre-
serve. anc abounds with elk. deer.
and occasionally a moose. Nor do
they know that the waters OF this
splendid canyon are full OF fine pick.
erei. or Ia they are more commonly
called out in this country. pike. Two
weeks ago last Sunday, at the Boy
sen camp, ninety majestic elk march
ed right down into town. Boysen Is
he main camp of the Utah Construc-
ton company, who are building the
wonderful road through the canyon.
which is to be the connecting link
between Thermopolis and Casper. or
In other words. which will be the only
outlet of the Big Horn Basin with
the outside world. Boysen is a sta
ton on the Burlington railroad, M
nes-les down at the side OF the track
between granite walls that look to be
all of 5000 feet high. and they are
most likely. for the mountains on
either sid of this wonderful canyo
arc known to be about 5000 feet
above the water level OF the Big Horn
river which flows. tumbles and shoots
IL ough and over the rocks at the
base of these imposing and niagnifi-
cent granite shafts.
There is a little park at Boysen.
where already three different resort
r-eosrs are figuring on putting in
picnic camps for the tourists who will
be .ured through the canyon when
the new road is completed. And.
talking Of roads and highways. this
is IN to date the most important
road project that has ever happened
In Wyoming. For the twelve miles
that the Utah Construction company
have under contract +he highway
will be a boulevard second to no
canyon road in the known world. II
winds and twists around the curves
and through the tunnels beside the
Big Horn river. scarcely ever out OF
sight Of it.. except when It dives
through n tunnel, of which there are
three. One, the main tunnels is 400
feet long. and goes through the hard
est black rock that the company has
ever had experience with. The next
tunnel Is 200 feet long and the short
one is only 10 feet lorg, and all are
in the most picturesque locations,
and the roads through them are reg
ular ~boulevards. A. no place in this
drive through h twelve miles OF the
canyon is there more Than a 6 per
cent grade. and at no spot is there
danger OF collision. or danger of
Jumping Off into the boiling stream
below. Women drivers can $Din
through this canyon on high with
perfect safety. In this respect It is
5000 .,Nr,ra Gov nf NO nlaRa t,
Wyoming or COLORADO have I ever
seen so much wonderful scenery. and
such a perfect canyon roa where
there was not some places where nj
might slip n plunge down into n
stream below, or onto ragged rocks
hundreds OF feet below the highway.
But the Wind River Canyon out
/ will be safe.
At this main camp at Boysen the
company camp houses 200 workmen,
and at different places a;ong the
canyon there are other camps where
from twelve to fifteen men are housed
and from that w to eighty men,
which is the second largest camp
in the canyon. There are our places
where little parks are located. where
the canyon widens just enough to per-
NIT of stations and camps, resorts
for tourists and SO forth, and at each
these places thera are streams Of
crystal white spring water bursting
forth from between the granite walls
or coming out from under a moss
severed ledge. The Wind River CAN
yon road is a part and parcel of the
great Park-to-PGrk highway. n was
first started by the Yellowstone high
way association before the Park-to-
Park highway wss thought Of. Its
creation and contamination marks one
OF tie greatest achievements Of the
combined efforts of the Yellowstone
Highway association n the Park-to-
Park Highway association. 1t is the
most important piece of highway
work in the entire west, and every
man who ovrns a a should be prou,
of becoming D member OF any or