Pinedale, Wyoming

For most of us, the great age of Western exploration seems a distant and almost mythical part of history. For the folks in Pinedale, Wyoming, though, it’s as tangible as the snow-capped peaks that ring their community. Pinedale (population 2,030), the largest town in Sublette County, is named for renowned trapper William Sublette. The site along Pine Creek in the Green River Valley, where the mountain men met for six of their raucous rendezvous in the 1830s, lies deep in the heart of this w