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The Franz Ranch on the Green River 1920 Deeded Acres with Green River Frontage Pinedale, Wyoming! The Franz Ranch on The Green River 1920 Deeded Acres with Green River Frontage Pinedale, Wyoming! The Ranch Brokers | (307) 690-4313 | 610 S Hwy 93 | Hamilton, MT 59840 | www.theranchbrokers.com | [email protected] 1 LOCATION The Franz Ranch is located 60 miles south, southeast of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and 24 miles north, northwest of Pinedale, Wyoming off of State Hwy 189/191. The Jackson Hole airport is serviced by American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Skywest Airlines & United Airlines seasonally. The airlines provide service to Denver, Salt Lake City, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. For more details visit http://www.jacksonholeairport.com/ . Private planes can fly into Ralph Wenz Field, 5 miles south of Pinedale. The airport is publicly owned and managed by Emblem Aviation. For more information visit http://www.pinedaleonline.com/pinedaleairport.HTM Sublette County in Western Wyoming is the gateway to the Wind River Mountains, the Upper Green River Valley, Wyoming Range and over 1300 lakes, including Fremont Lake and Half Moon Lake. Throughout Sublette County you will find spectacular scenery, wildlife, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, photography, and so many more exciting adventure opportunities. This rural farming and ranching community has only about 7,000 residents throughout 4883 square miles (12,783 square kilometers.) The county is 80% public land including Bureau of Land Management (BLM), State, and the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Pinedale, Wyoming is located in western Wyoming approximately 78 miles south of Jackson Hole and 100 miles north of Rock Springs along Highway 191.The town is nestled on the western flank of the Wind River Mountain Range. Pinedale is a small community with a western flavor. It has a population of about 1,500 people and is at 7,175 feet in elevation. The surrounding mountains tower to more than 13,000 feet. Average summer temperatures are in the 70s-80s and winter about 15 degrees F. Average rainfall is about 10" per year. We're your Basecamp for Adventure into the beautiful Wind River Mountains, and right on the way to Yellowstone National Park, the Tetons and Jackson Hole! If you're looking for fewer crowds, western hospitality, and fantastic scenery, visit PINEDALE! LOCALE The major industries in Pinedale County are Oil and Gas, Tourism, Recreation and Goverment. Pinedale is the county seat for Sublette County and home of the Green River Rendezvous, held annually the second weekend in July. While historically ranching has been the mainstay industry, many local businesses are now Oil and Gas related to accommodate the harvest of natural gas in Sublette County. Tourism and recreational opportunities in the surrounding Wind River Mountains, Bridger Wilderness and Bridger-Teton National Forest include camping, 4-wheeling, mountain biking, horseback riding, water sports, more than 1,300 lakes and miles of mountain hiking trails and that is just the Summer! Winter in Sublette County offers just as many reasons to get off that couch and hed outside. Pinedale is the home of White Pine Ski Resort a family oriented down hill ski resort as well as enough backcountry to keep any level skier or snowboarding busy for years to come. We are on the Continental Divide Snowmobile Trail which provides us with world class snowmobiling! Cross country skiing and ice fishing are both popular and top of line here as well. With all of this and more, we have a little something for everyone! Come visit Sublette County, you may never want to leave! The Ranch Brokers | (307) 690-4313 | 610 S Hwy 93 | Hamilton, MT 59840 | www.theranchbrokers.com | [email protected] 2 Topography of the surrounding areas, description of the mountain ranges, rivers, ski areas, things to do. The ranch is nestled on the eastside of Aspen Ridge between 3 rugged mountain ranges, The Wind River Mountains to the east, The Wyoming Range to the west and the Gros Ventre Mountains to the north. When not occupied with activities on the ranch, shopping, restaurants & medical services are available in Pinedale, just a short drive south from the ranch. Visit www.pinedaleonline.com . When you have more time explore Jackson Hole, just 60 miles north. In addition to the extensive retail shopping there is an extensive selection of art galleries & museums to peruse. Visit www.jacksonholechamber.com . For local color and history don’t forget Daniel, WY. Stop in and have a slaw dog at the Green River Bar, locally referred to as the “GRB”. The Wind River Range (or "Winds" for short), is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in western Wyoming in the United States. The range runs roughly NW-SE for approximately 100 miles (161 km). The Continental Divide follows the crest of the range and includes Gannett Peak, which at 13,804 feet (4,207 m), is the highest peak in Wyoming. There are more than 40 other named peaks in excess of 13,000 feet (3,962 m).[1] Two large National Forests including three wilderness areas encompass most of the mountain range. Shoshone National Forest is on the eastern side of the continental divide while Bridger-Teton National Forest is on the west. Both National Forests and the entire mountain range are an integral part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Portions of the range are also inside the Wind River Indian Reservation. Geology The Winds are composed primarily of a granitic batholith which is granite rock formed deep under the surface of the Earth, over one billion years ago. Over hundreds of millions of years, rocks that were once covering this batholith eroded away. As the land continued to rise during the Laramide orogeny, further erosion occurred until all that remained were the granitic rocks. The ice ages beginning 500,000 years ago began carving the rocks into their present shapes. Within the Winds, numerous lakes were formed by the glaciers and numerous cirques, or circular valleys, were carved out of the rocks, the most well known being the Cirque of the Towers, in the southern section of the range. Shoshone National Forest claims that there are 16 named and 140 unnamed glaciers just on the east side of the range for a total of 156, with another 27 reported by Bridger- Teton National Forest for the western slopes of the range. Several of these are the largest glaciers in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Gannett Glacier which flows down the north slope of Gannett Peak, is the largest single The Ranch Brokers | (307) 690-4313 | 610 S Hwy 93 | Hamilton, MT 59840 | www.theranchbrokers.com | [email protected] 3 glacier in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S., and is located in the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in Shoshone National Forest. Hydrology Several major rivers have headwaters on either side of the range. The Green and Big Sandy rivers drain southward from the west side of the range, while the Wind River drains eastward through the Shoshone Basin. The Green is the largest fork of the Colorado River while the Wind River, after changing its name to the Bighorn River, is the largest fork of the Yellowstone River The Bridger Wilderness contains over 1,300 lakes. These lakes range in size from less than 3 acres (12,000 m2) to over 200 acres (0.81 km2), with an average size of about 10 acres (40,000 m2). Historically, the lakes and streams of the Bridger Wilderness were devoid of fish, as were most alpine lakes throughout the Rocky Mountains. The first known transplant of fish into the area took place in 1907 when Colorado cutthroat trout were introduced into North Fork Lake. Considerable fish stocking by individuals, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, occurred between 1924 and 1935.[2] Ecology The Winds are known to have a small Grizzly Bear population, primarily in the northernmost areas. Other mammals include the black bear, elk, moose, mule deer, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, and wolverine. Bald eagles, falcons and hawks are just a few of the 300 species of birds known to inhabit the region. The streams and lakes are home to cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout, Mackinaw Trout (Lake Trout), and Golden Trout — about 2.5 million of which were stocked by a local explorer named Finis Mitchell and his wife during the Great Depression. The forests are dominated by lodgepole pine, whitebark pine, subalpine fir, and Engelmann spruce. The Ranch Brokers | (307) 690-4313 | 610 S Hwy 93 | Hamilton, MT 59840 | www.theranchbrokers.com | [email protected] 4 The range sits alongside many of the animal migration routes in the United States and contains several important passes, notably South Pass, (7,412 ft / 2,301 m), at the south end of the range, which was one of the more important passes on the Oregon Trail as it passed through the Rockies. Aside from South Pass, which is at the southernmost tip of the range, no roads cross the mountains until Union Pass, (9,210 ft / 2,807 m) at the northern terminus of the range. There are many passes between tall peaks across the continental divide, which runs through the entire range. HISTORY The South Rim and Sublette County have a long history of cattle ranching and typified by the large ranches surrounding the Franz Ranch. Several of which have been operated by the same family for generations. The western history buff will enjoy learning about the Green River area and its importance to the Rocky Mountain Fur Trading and stories of the rendezvous of the mountain men. Sublette County located in Western Wyoming has a total of 5,920 residents. Most of these citizens like to boast that there is not one single stop light in the whole entire county.
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