Riverton

The landscape around Riverton is a broad, semi-arid basin crossed by the Wind River and Little Wind River, which has shaped both the city’s dispersed layout and its ranching- and agriculture-based economy. The rivers meet nearby at the Wedding of the Waters, where the downstream course takes the name Bighorn River. Riverton was founded in 1906 after land within the Wind River Reservation was opened to non-Native settlement. The surrounding reservation remains the homeland of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes, an essential part of central Wyoming’s identity. Browse related webcams across the Wind River Basin for a broader sense of Riverton’s setting.

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