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Places: Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge

By Mike Rosso If I were to use one word to describe Browns Park in northwestern Colorado, it would be “remote.” The nearest towns of any significance are Craig, Colorado, Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Vernal, Utah, all of which are at least 90 minutes away by automobile. Save for a few cattle ranches, there are few human inhabitants. Browns Park or Brown’s Park, originally called Brown’s Hole, is an isolated mountain valley along the Green River in northwest Colorado and western Utah, east of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. Archaeological studies at Browns Park show that prehistoric people were ...

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