Miracle Mile, WY

It is coming up on Thanksgiving and I once spend Thanksgivings by myself in a small cabin in a remote spot in Wyoming. I have been there many times in summer and winter. Some of my fondest memories of Thanksgiving were there with my dog Sage. I always write my x-mas cards on thanksgiving and when I was at cabin #6 I cooked up Dinty Moore stew for dinner. 

This is cabin #6 and I enjoyed several Thanksgivings here in the center of Wyoming. I know it doesn't look like much with two rooms, a kitchen and bedroom. The outhouse was a short walk. 

The cabin has a central gas stove or wall furnace that kept the place warm. It had a small two burner gas stove I used to heat up the stew. It was very basic with a table and two chairs in the kitchen and a  bunk bed in the bedroom. 

 

Why is it called Miracle Mile, you ask? No, not the abundance of wildlife. It is called the Miracle Mile because there is a mile of river between two lakes that provides some of the best trout fishing in the world. 

Not only is it between two lake but there are mountains all around. 

The water level remains very constant due to the dam that feeds the river from the upper lake. 

It is never very crowded because it seems only avid fishermen know about this place and it is also hard to get to with 40 miles of gravel road to get back to the stream. It is very peaceful. 

People even fish here in the winter. The water flows most of the year. 

I like to fish and even had the pleasure in winter. Yes, that's Sage and we had gone fishing. Not much luck that day.

And yes there were fish to catch. This was a summer catch.

I have fished there summer and winter. It is such a private pace with beautiful surroundings.

It is hard to judge scale of objects in the distance. Can you see the fishermen in the photo? 

This is a photo zoomed in of the last photo. This is a big stream and big mountains.

It is never very crowded.

It certainly is different in the winter.

Can you imagine Pelicans in Wyoming.

Some of the shoreline is very rocky.

I always find it to be a beautiful place.

There are 6 cabins and I have always had #6 but here is #3.

I hope to return someday in the near future to fish again.