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Denver-Pueblo Section Page 747 Route 729
St. Avoid left-hand road 113.5, crossing small iron bridge
just beyond. Cross RRs 113.7.
113.8 0.4 ROCK SPRINGS, C & Main Sts., brick bank on right, green
on left.
G/VRACES—Lfnedn Highway Garage, C. St. at 2nd on Lincoln Hgwy.
Western Auto Transit Co., C. St.. 1% Blks. S. of RR.
is Route 729 to Evanston.
Straight ahead on C St.
Route 729—Rock Springs to Evanston, Wyo.—115.6 m.
Reverse Route 709.
Via Greenriver, Lyman and Ft. Bridger. Good to fair dirt all the way with some
good stretches of natural prairie road.
This route follows the general direction of the RR thru the low hills to Greenriver
an .... f £ ? I T_ there t0 Lyman it traverses a rolling, thinly settled prairie. Lyman, Urie
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and Ft. Bridger are located in an irrigated farming section and from Ft.
Distance Bridger on to Evanston, the road winds thru the hills over gentle grades.
Total Between
Mileage Points This is a section of the Lincoln highway.
0.0 0.0 ROCK SPRINGS, C & Main Sts., bank on right. Go south
three blocks on C St.
0.1 0.1 4-corners, church and library on right; turn right. Cross
switches 0.6-1.2-1.5. Avoid left-hand diagonal road 1.6.
Left at 1.6 leads to Sweetwater.
Cross RR 3.9.
5.7 5.6 Fork; bear right.
7.7 2.0 Fork; bear left. Thru cut 11.5. Cross switch 14.7.
15.1 7.4
15.2 0.1 Keep ahead, crossing RRs
just beyond.
15.3 0.1
15.6 0.3
15.8 0.2
Green river.
15.9 0.1 Cross RR 16.1.
16.2 0.3
18.8 2.6 * right. Upgrade 19.8. Avoid right-
hand diagonal road 26.8. Thru 4-corners 28.8.
Right at 28.8 leads to Bryan Sta., 0.2 mile.
Bear left across long iron bridge over Green river 31.1.
Avoid right-hand diagonal road 34.2.
44.7 25.9 Irregular 4-corners, signs on right and left; turn left up-
grade.
Straight ahead before this turn leads to Granger, 0.7 mile.
Avoid left-hand diagonal road 45.2. Turn right across small
iron bridge over Green river 60.6.
61.7 17.0 Fork; bear right. Cross small wooden bridge 66.4, turning
right with road just beyond.
67.8 6.1 Left-hand diagonal road, sign on left; bear left. Thru diag-
onal 4-corners 69.4.
70.1 2.3 Diagonal 4-corners; bear right with fence. Enter irrigated
farming section 70.4.
71.9 1.8 End of road; turn right.
73.5 1.6 End of road; turn left.
73.7 0.2 Lyman, bank on far right. Keep ahead.
74.0 0.3 End of road; turn right.
74.2 0.2 End of road; turn left across small wooden bridge.
74.7 0.5 4-corners; turn right.
Thru Urie 76.7.
77.5 2.8 Fork, sign in center; bear right downgrade.
79.3 1.8 End of road, just beyond small wooden bridge; turn right.
79.6 0.3 Ft. Bridger, 4-corners, cobblestone monument on left. Turn
right.
80.0 0.4 End of road; turn left. Cross small wooden bridge 80.4.
Cross
Avoid right-hand road at summit of steep grade 80.7.
small wooden bridge 81.6.
82.6 2.6 Fork, sign in center; bear right.