The Wind River officially becomes the Bighorn River at the Wedding of the Waters, on the north side of the Wind River Canyon. They also offer tours, language lessons and storytelling. Located inside the Wind River Hotel & Casino, the Northern Arapaho Experience Culture Room offers visitors the chance to see the past, present and future of the Northern Arapaho.
In the Owl Creek Mountains, it is dammed to form Boysen Reservoir. Northern Arapaho Experience Culture Room. It flows northward, through a gap in the Owl Creek Mountains, where the name of the river becomes the Bighorn River. to midnight Sundays through Thursdays, and 11 a.m. Up stream from this confluence, it is known locally as the Big Wind River. The largest hotel and casino in Wyoming has been closed since Nov. It flows southeastward, across the Wind River Basin and the Wind River Indian Reservation and joins the Little Wind River near Riverton. Its headwaters are at Wind River Lake in the Rocky Mountains, near the summit of Togwotee Pass (pronounced TOH-guh-tee) and gathers water from several forks along the northeast side of the Wind River Range in west central Wyoming. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn.Ĭourse Wind River as part of the Boysen Reservoir near Thermopolis, Wyoming
The Wind River is 185 miles (298 km) long. The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States. Dinwoody Creek, Bull Lake Creek, Little Wind River
