A journey along the Flaming Gorge - Green River Basin Scenic Byway rides along high ridges with views of fifty miles or more in any direction. The road touches lightly on the landscape as it rolls, dips, and twists across a dry and impossibly big sky. The windswept land, alongside the emerald water of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, is a splendid fishing and water recreation resource. Visitors may drive for pleasure across the byway and experience immense blue sky, brilliant white billowing clouds, multi-colored rock, and vast grasslands. This drive passes through the nationally significant Wyoming Basin, a specific physiographic region used by the National Park Service and geographers to organize the country’s landscape as influenced by geography, watersheds, and landforms. Even more striking than the ridges are the deep canyons carved in the landscape by millions of years of erosion by streams and rivers originating in the nearby mountains.

Federal Highway Administration, America’s Byways
Length
96 mi / 154.5 km
Time to allow
Between 2-2.5 hours. Allow more time if you wish to stop and enjoy scenery and recreational opportunities.
Fees
None

Who looks after this road

  • Wyoming Travel & Tourism · 800-225-5996

We publish 1 place that sit on this road, listed in the order you meet them. This is not a route and not a drive time — it is the names, so you can put them into whatever navigation you already use.

“Off” is a straight line from the place to the road, rounded. It is not a driving distance, and the road itself is a simplified centre line, so treat a mile or two as noise.

  1. Flaming Gorge ReservoirWY4 miles offLake

    reservoir

    Swimming
    Swimming listed at some sites, such as Buckboard Crossing
    Boating
    Motorized and non-motorized boating; ramps and marinas at several sites
    Fishing
    yes - blue-ribbon fishery on the reservoir and Green River
    Camping
    Many Forest Service campgrounds (26 near the gorge); 4 are boat-in only
    Season
    Buckboard Crossing campground open May to September
    Cost
    NRA pass: $5 day, $15 week, $35 annual