Everything about The Laramie River totally explained
The
Laramie River is a tributary of the
North Platte River, approximately 216
mi (348
km) long, in the
U.S. states of
Colorado and
Wyoming.
It rises in northern Colorado, in the
Roosevelt National Forest in the
Front Range, in western
Larimer County. It flows NNW into Wyoming, along the east side of the
Medicine Bow Mountains, past
Jelm and
Woods Landing, then NE emerging from the mountains 22 miles southwest of
Laramie. The river then flows north through the town of Laramie. In the Laramie Plains it joins the
Little Laramie River. The Laramie River then continues north through the
Laramie Plains and through
Wheatland Reservoir. It flows NE through the
Laramie Mountains. Emerging from the mountains, it receives the
North Laramie River 5 mi (8 km) north of
Wheatland and
Chugwater Creek 7 mi (11 km) NE of Wheatland. It joins the North Platte opposite the town
Fort Laramie.
In its upper reaches in Colorado, the river supplies water to the
Cache La Poudre River via the
Laramie-Poudre Tunnel. The tunnel, which is approximately 2 mi/3.2 km long, was finished in
1911 as part of a larger
irrigation project for northern Colorado.
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The river was named for
Jacques La Ramee, a
French-Canadian fur trader who lived in the area in the
1820s. His arrow-ridden body was found near the mouth of the river on the North Platte by his companions, who named the river in his honor. The
Laramie Mountains, as well as the City of
Laramie, Wyoming, were later given the same name.
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