Keywords: Slide Lake Bridger Wilderness.jpg Retrieved from http //www pinedaleonline com/photogallery/forestservice/home htm which states on their webpage Photos by the Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton National Forest which is a PD source as it is a U S Government agency Image from http //www pinedaleonline com/photogallery/forestservice/scr-slide jpg Slide Lake is actually in the northwestern area of the Gros Ventre Wilderness A landslide in 1925 carried some 50 million cubic yards of debris down the side of Sheep Mountain forming a dam and creating Slide Lake Two years later a flood washed out part of that natural dam and the downstream town of Kelly was destroyed Today Kelly is a historic site and the road to and area around Slide Lake has been cherry-stemmed into the Gros Ventre Wilderness as a designated National Geological Area Updated info from http //www wilderness net/index cfm fuse NWPS sec wildView wname Gros 20Ventre PD-USGov Landslides Wind River Range Bridger-Teton National Forest 43 10N
109 40W
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
County: Fremont, Sublette
Area: 1,732 km2 |