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ROCK SPRINGS
, the largest town in southwest Wyoming, is also wholly unremarkable, a down-at-heel mining community that experienced its latest short-lived boom in the 1980s. If you need to
stay
, there's the
Knotty Pine Lodge
at 1234 Ninth St (tel 307/362-4515; up to $35); not far away, the
Santa Fe Trail Restaurant
at 1635 Elk St (tel 307/362-5427) serves fresh Tex-Mex.
Ramshackle
GREEN RIVER
is fourteen miles west. Wedged between high buttes, and sliced through by the railroad, the interstate and the Green River itself it's not an easy place to find your way around.
Embers
, 95 E Railroad Ave (tel 307/875-9983), is the most popular
eating
spot, while the
Coachman Inn
, 470 E Flaming Gorge Way (tel 307/875-3681; up to $35/$35-50), is a good-value
motel. Campers
should note that both Green River and Rock Springs lie within easy reach of
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
. Roads south from either town run through the empty hills, looking out over incandescent orange rocks and a dramatic artificial lake.
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