Duchesne River: Mouth to source
By rfay - Posted on July 7th, 2004
Tagged: Northwest
From the bottom of Baxter Pass I found my way to Bonanza, Utah. There's nothing there but a Gilsonite plant. Then a dirt road (or several of them) took me to Ouray (O-ray), which is on the Ute reservation. Ouray is where the White River flows into the Green River, and not far from where the Duchesne joins the Green. I followed the Duchesne north to Fort Duchesne, Roosevelt, Duchesne, and then up through many small towns to its source, near Wolf Creek Pass. It was all beautiful agricultural country, but with signs of oil and gas activity all around also.