Red Canyon, located in Fremont County, Wyoming is an uplift of the nearby Wind River Range formed some 60 million years ago. Oxidized iron deposits in the rocks give the canyon its name. There is evidence of over 10,000 years of people having lived and passed through the canyon, including the Shoshone and Washakie tribes which used it as a transportation corridor between South Pass and the Wind River Basin. White settlers arrived during the 1870s and established farms on the floor of the canyon which provided fresh fruit and grains for nearby miners at South Pass City and Atlantic City. Photo by Kathy Alexander.