Losing place in Wyoming’s Red Desert

Posted by on Dec 5, 2014 @ 8:43 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: December 5, 2014

The Red Desert in Wyoming is huge. It encompasses 9,320 square miles and is the largest unfenced area in the continental U.S. I-80 cuts across its southern quarter. Highway 287 runs up its eastern side and then angles across its northern edge, following the route of the historic Oregon Trail whose 350,000 travelers between the 1840s and 1860s wanted no part of the arid...

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