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Pinedale, Wyoming

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Fremont Lake, Pinedale Ranger District. Forest Service photo by Mike Balen.

Outdoors

The Wind River Range starts seven miles from town.

Lakes, trails, fishing, skiing, and indoor options, with current hours and who to call before you go.

Late fall

Open now

Ski areas show up here once the lifts open; until then they're under Winter. Before a Wind River trip, call the Pinedale Ranger District at 307-367-4326 for trail and road conditions.

River levelsWhich lake is right for today?GOTCo trailhead shuttles
  1. 01Fremont LakeYear-round
  2. 02Fishing & ice fishingYear-round
  3. 03Museum of the Mountain ManYear-round
  4. 04Pinedale Aquatic CenterYear-round

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4 guides shown for Open now.

Fremont Lake, Pinedale Ranger District, Bridger-Teton National Forest. Forest Service photo by Mike Balen.

01 · Year-round

Year-round

Fremont Lake

Watercraft up to 35 feet launch from the Lower Boat Dock when depths are normal. Sandy Beach is the family swim and paddle spot; dogs are not allowed there. Fremont Lake Campground on the east shore typically runs late May through early September. Ice fishing and the Big Fish Ice Derby take over in winter.

  • Fremont Lake CampgroundBridger-Teton National Forest307-367-4326
Official source
A colored-up brown trout in the Green River at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, October 2018. Photo by Tom Koerner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

05 · Year-round

Year-round

Fishing & ice fishing

A Wyoming fishing license is required. The Pinedale Game and Fish office handles licenses and current regulations. Live New Fork, Pine Creek, Green River, and East Fork flows sit on the river desk. Fremont Lake supports summer derbies and a winter ice derby hosted by the Pinedale Boat Club. High-lake fishing is a wilderness trip, not a roadside outing. The brown trout and river plates are from Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, on the Green River south of town.

  • Wyoming Game and Fish, Pinedale RegionLicenses and regulations307-367-4353
Official source
Museum of the Mountain Man, 700 E. Hennick, Pinedale. Photo by Craig Talbert, June 2021.

07 · Year-round

Year-round

Museum of the Mountain Man

Summer hours run May 1 through October 31, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Winter visits are by advance appointment. Admission is $10 for ages 13 and up, $8 for seniors and veterans, and free for children 12 and under. The 2026-27 featured exhibit is Confluence of Cultures: 87 works by 45 artists.

  • Museum of the Mountain ManSublette County Historical Society307-367-4101
Official source
Pine Street looking east through downtown Pinedale. The aquatic center is a few blocks north on Tyler Avenue.

08 · Year-round

Year-round

Pinedale Aquatic Center

The building is open Monday-Friday 5 a.m.-8 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m. It is closed Sunday. Leisure and competition pool hours are shorter and can change for lessons or meets. Climbing wall hours are Monday-Friday 4-6 p.m. and Saturday 12-4 p.m.

Official source

USGS · Sublette County

What the creeks are doing

Live flow, gage height, and water temperature from wy-water on top of the USGS instantaneous service. Scan tonight's board, click a sensor on the map, then walk the corridor upstream toward the lakes or down toward Big Piney.

As of Wed, Nov 11, 10:08 AM Mountain Time. 13 live, 3 quiet, 16 public gages. Values are USGS provisional. A cubic foot per second is about 7.5 gallons every second — not a wading depth.

River levels on the Weather page

Last 24 hours

What is moving

Largest rises and falls versus that same sensor yesterday. The week mark is that gage's seven-day flow shape. Click a row for the 24-hour hydrograph. Not a ranking of rivers.

Rising

Falling

Tonight

Every gage in one pass

Live cubic feet per second, the week's flow shape, then the 24-hour change on that same sensor. Click a row for the 24-hour hydrograph.

Sensor map

Where the gages sit

Dots are USGS coordinates. Size is live flow against the largest live gage on this map — volume, not a wading depth. Thin lines join gages on the same river in catalog order, headwaters toward the valley — not a surveyed channel.

NNew Fork at townNew Fork at Big Piney
  • Green River
  • New Fork
  • Pine Creek
  • Willow & Duck
  • Boulder Creek
  • East Fork

Upstream → downstream

New Fork corridor

Same river, in order. Bar length is tonight's live flow against the largest live gage here — not how wadable the water is.

New Fork River

New Fork at town

New Fork at town. 41 cfs.

The New Fork on the west edge of town, just before Pine Creek joins. Last USGS ping Wed, Nov 11, 9:00 AM.

Flow
41cfs
Gage
18.55ft
Water
—°F
Oxygen
None

Down 1.6 cfs since yesterday

Rising about 0.3 cfs per hour over the last six hours

About 307 gallons passing every second.

This week on this gage

Near the low for this week on this gage

Low 39.5 cfsNow 41 cfsHigh 52.7 cfs

On this river

Compare

Walk this river

The gage you leave stays as the dashed overlay. [ and ] do the same when the graph is focused.

Flow

41cfs

New Fork at Big Piney 461 cfs

420 cfs below New Fork at Big Piney at this hour

1.6 cfs below the same hour yesterday

Wed, Nov 11, 9:00 AM

37.9291545HighLowYdayThuFriSatSunMonTueWed

Drag across the line, click a day, or use the arrow keys. Download CSV is this window, USGS provisional. The dashed sage line is the compare gage on the same scale.

Keys and clicks
  • Arrows, Home, and End scrub. Play walks the same points.
  • Click the plot — not a drag — to pin that hour. P pins, Escape clears.
  • Last night, or N, opens the day view, pins 8pm Mountain, and jumps to now.
  • 1 and 7 switch the window. F, G, T, and O switch the metric.
  • Y hides yesterday on the day view.
  • [ and ] walk this river. The gage you leave stays as the dashed overlay.
  • Night, High, Low, Yday, and day marks jump the scrubber.
  • Copy link keeps a pin as :p… UTC, or :night after Last night. CSV is USGS provisional; a pin adds a vs_pin column.

High Wed, Nov 4, 10:15 AM. Low Sun, Nov 8, 11:45 PM. Both marks are this gage, this week only.

USGS 09196000

Field school

Learn the instruments before you trust a screenshot

Cubic feet per second is volume, not depth. One cubic foot of water is about 7.5 gallons. Right now 41 cfs means about 307 gallons pass this sensor every second.

Wyoming Game and Fish

Green River

The river below the lakes

The Green starts at Green River Lakes above Cora. These photos are from farther south at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge: a fall brown and the river at Horseshoe Bend.

  • Catch-and-release of a brown trout at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, September 2019. Photo by Tom Koerner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
    Brown trout, ready for release
  • The Green River at Horseshoe Bend on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, October 2013. Photo by Tom Koerner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
    Green River at Horseshoe Bend

Elkhart Park to Titcomb

Skyline Drive to Titcomb Basin

Island Lake, Seneca Lake, Photographers Point, and Titcomb Basin sit at the end of Skyline Drive from Pinedale.

  • Trail toward Photographers Point from Elkhart Park, Wind River Range, July 2017. Photo by Fredlyfish4.
    Toward Photographers Point
  • Overlook on the Pole Creek trail at Photographers Point, July 2017. GPS at the mapped viewpoint. Photo by Fredlyfish4.
    Photographers Point
  • Seneca Lake in the Wind River Range, July 2017. Overnight stop on the way to Island Lake from Elkhart Park. Photo by Fredlyfish4.
    Seneca Lake
  • Island Lake in the Wind River Range, July 2017. About ten miles from Elkhart Park above Pinedale. Photo by Fredlyfish4.
    Island Lake
  • Fremont Peak and Titcomb Basin, July 2017. GPS in the basin beyond Island Lake. Photo by Fredlyfish4.
    Titcomb Basin
  • Wildflowers in Titcomb Basin, Bridger Wilderness, Pinedale Ranger District, July 2006. Forest Service photo by Doug Wewer.
    Titcomb Basin wildflowers