Best of Wyoming - Evanston
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Evanston Best of Wyoming Posts
During the month of August, Wyoming Public Media featured Evanston on its ‘Best of Wyoming’ page.You are welcome to glance at the summaries below and follow the links to snapshots of the many innovative organizations in Evanston:
Fort Bridger’s History - 30 Miles East of Evanston
Tue. Aug. 28, 2012
Credit Fort Bridger State Park
By Linda Byers
By 1840, the Fur Trade Era, with its keen competition for beaver pelts, its raucous reputation for rendezvous, and its solid association with all that was wild and untamed in the Rocky Mountain West, was drawing its last breath. Mountain men who had survived the rigors of the wilderness were forced to seek new methods of employment. Two of those men, Jim Bridger and Louis Vasquez, teamed up to operate a trading post in order to provide much needed services for the rapidly increasing number of settlers passing through on the way to their promised lands.
Mon. Aug. 27, 2012
Credit Young Musicians
By Young Musicians
Young Musicians Inc. is the premier non-profit arts-presenting organization in Southwest Wyoming. Its mission is to present year-long arts and cultural programming in Evanston and Uinta County, provide outstanding and unique educational and performance opportunities to music students of all ages and ability levels, and to make music and the arts a higher priority in public school systems.
Bear River State Park - Evanston
Tue. Aug. 21, 2012
Credit Bear River State Park
ByBear River State Park
Bear River is a year-round park that offers nearly 300 acres that are ideal for picnicking, hiking, wildlife viewing, group activities, bicycling, skiing, rollerblading, remote control cars and many other activities. The park is home to a small head of captive bison and elk kept for public viewing. Three miles of foot trails are within park limits. They include 1.2 miles of paved trail and an arched footbridge that crosses the Bear River. Another 1.7 miles of packed gravel trails are on the of the west side of the river.
Fort Bridger Rendezvous - 30 Miles from Evanston
Fri Aug. 10, 2012
Credit Fort Bridger Rendezvous
ByMica Stark
The Fort Bridger Rendezvous welcomes visitors this August 31st-September 3rd for the 40th Anniversary. The rendezvous is held each year over Labor Day weekend at the Fort Bridger Historic Site. Join the Rendezvous for this pre-1840’s historical reenactment with period correct shopping, primitive food, Native American Dancers, shoots, hawk & knife throwing, primitive demonstrations, and lots of fun for the whole family.
$3.00 per person, children 11 & under are free.
Uinta County Museum & Joss House - Evanston
Mon Aug. 6, 2012
Credit Uinta County Museum
Joss House
ByUinta County Museum
The mission of Uinta County Museum is to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Uinta County and the surrounding region and to make the Museum collections available to the public. There is significant history here, as the area was the funnel through which most of the trails west, from the mountain men to I-80, traveled.
Roundhouse Festival – Evanston
Wed Aug. 1, 2012.
Credit Roundhouse Festival
ByMike Murphy
This (model) Train show is put on by the Hostler Model Railroad club of Ogden in conjunction with the Evanston Roundhouse Restoration Inc. group. It is a great show and fun for the kids. There will be a small train the kids can ride on, several operating model train displays in 4 different scales, a model contest open to anyone, door prizes, raffle, food, a quilt show all for FREE (except for the food). The show hours are listed below. Tours will be given of all the facilities.
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