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South Pass (elevation 7,412 ft (2,259 m) and 7,550 ft (2,300 m)) is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming. It lies in a broad high region, 35 miles (56 km) wide, between the nearly 14,000 ft (4,300 m) Wind River Range to the north and the over 8,500 ft (2,600 m) Oregon Buttes [3] and arid, saline ...
A map of Passport and Places to Go locations for National Historic Trails. South Pass, a 20 mile wide, gently sloping gap in the Rocky Mountains, was perhaps the most important landform along the emigrant trails. It opened the West to settlement by providing a route over the Continental Divide that wagons could negotiate.
South Pass. Type: Saddle with an elevation of 7,559 feet. Description: collective term for two mountain passes on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming. Categories: mountain pass and landform. Location: Fremont, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America. View on OpenStreetMap.
South Pass is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming.
South Pass, located in southwest Wyoming, was the key that opened the door for emigrant wagons and handcarts to cross the Rocky Mountains in the early and mid-1800s. The 20-mile wide, sagebrush-covered saddle topped a gradual incline that appeared more like a prairie than a mountain pass.
Generalized geologic map of the Greater South Pass region showing the location of the South Pass segment (brown and gold dotted line) of the emigrant trail. The Laramide-age Wind River Thrust Fault has sawteeth pointing to the elevated block.
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