The South Pass people don't know...

The route of the Lander Cutoff in western Wyoming was potentially the first trail used as the crossing of the Continental Divide over what is known as South Pass. Join Clint Gilchrist, Director of the Museum of the Mountain Man, near where Native Americans and Pioneers crossed the Little Sandy River and pristine swales still exist today. Map coordinates 42.432253, -109.247814

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