The Flaming Gorge is a gorge along the Green River as it winds southward to empty into the Colorado River. The walls of the gorge are very steep and red, giving the area its name. The river was dammed at the bottom of the gorge so the river is much higher than it was throughout most of history, and even a whole town was swallowed up by the reservoir when the river was dammed.

We took a long loop trip to see the whole Flaming Gorge area as well as an area called Firehole Canyon which has lots of ‘chimneys’ and ‘spires’ further north of the gorge. Lots of interesting geology! We drove through a small area known as Sheep Creek Geology Area and while the geology was beautiful, we saw no sheep!

Here are pictures we took of the Gorge, the dam and reservoir, and Firehole Canyon: