Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534.
High in mountains where the natural environment changes swiftly, eroding or burying the past, for how long a time can vestiges of man's frailer achievements withstand obliteration? No matter!, for here man has brought or developed cultures which are . . . — — Map (db m180651) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Before primitive man discovered this pass between rich hunting grounds native ungulates grazed here during summers, migrating to the river valleys and plains for winters. These high plateaus and mountain meadows then harbored thousands of bison. . . . — — Map (db m180649) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Union Pass the cultural site must first have been Union Pass the natural site. As a natural site it commenced to produce vegetation and was afterwards inhabited by animals before it ever became attractive to man==for any purpose other than the . . . — — Map (db m180421) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Aesthetic and economic resources surround Union Pass, extending far to the west, north and southwest. These include grass, browse and forest plus animals living thereby and therein. Ownership of lands and vegetation repose in the nation's people; . . . — — Map (db m180423) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
A road, component of a cultural environment, is the most noticeable feature of this otherwise natural landscape. In present form it is not old, not a pioneer route hacked by frontiersmen. Based and graded to support rapid haulage o ponderous loads . . . — — Map (db m180419) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Jutting like the topsail of a ship from beyond the apparent horizon. a tip of the Ramshorn is seen. It serves to remind the viewer of the Absarokas, a cragged mountain range broader and longer than the Wind Rivers but slightly less elevated. These . . . — — Map (db m180420) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534.
Twelve thousand foot mountain plateaus dominating this view of Green River and Snake River headwaters seemingly provide a southwesterly buttress for loftier peaks forming the core of the Wind River Range. Beyond them it is 43 miles from Union Pass . . . — — Map (db m180653) HM
On Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Southwest rises a mountain given a lyrical name, one such as Indians or mountain men discovering a geographical phenomenon might have chosen. Midway of its four-mile long crest is the key point, one of only two in North America, were as many as . . . — — Map (db m180333) HM
On U.S. 287 near Warm Springs Creek Road, on the left when traveling west.
Hacked and Stacked
Ties were made from trees hacked and cut by hand...hence the name "tie hack." Tie hacks were a special breed of loggers who could quickly fell, limb a tree, and fashion the tie down to the specification demanded. . . . — — Map (db m96316) HM
Westbound Astorians led by Wilson Price Hunt in September, 1811, passed through Dubois region, over Union Pass, and on to the mouth of the Columbia River to explore a line of communication and to locate sites for fur trading posts across the . . . — — Map (db m96244) HM
On U.S. 287 at Union Pass Road, on the left when traveling west on U.S. 287.
Union Pass, so named in 1860 by Captain William F. Raynolds during the Hayden Surveys of Wyoming, provides access across the Continental Divide in the Northern Wind River Mountains. Ancient peoples used this pass for centuries, with use by fur . . . — — Map (db m96313) HM
On Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
At this pass--midst a maze of mountain ranges and water courses which has sometime baffled and repulsed them--aboriginal hunters, mountain men, fur traders and far-ranging explorers have, each in his time, found the key to a geographic conundrum. . . . — — Map (db m180331) HM
Near Union Pass Road (Forest Road 600) near Forest Road 534, on the right when traveling south.
Postulating the traverse of the Continental Divide the eye climbs to Union Peck, some four airline miles but nearer six by that tortuous route. At ll,491 feet Union Peak is a nondescript rise that draws attention only because it is the final . . . — — Map (db m180418) HM
