Big_Sandy_River_(Wyoming)

Big Sandy River (Wyoming)

Big Sandy River (Wyoming)

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The Big Sandy River (also called Big Sandy Creek) is a 141-mile-long (227 km)[1] tributary of the Green River in Wyoming in the United States.

Big Sandy Creek, Wyoming

Course

It rises in eastern Sublette County, on the west side of the continental divide in the southern Wind River Range, in the Bridger Wilderness Area of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.

It flows south, southwest, southeast, then southwest, past the town of Farson and joins the Green in western Sweetwater County.

Above Farson, it is dammed to form the Big Sandy Reservoir.

Big Sandy River streamflow near Farson in September 2002 during drought conditions.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 18, 2011

41°51′05″N 109°46′58″W



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