The Naming of the Lake
About 3 miles north of Pinedale at Fremont Lake

On the edge of this magnificent sheet of water, Capt. William Drummond Stewart of Scotland camped many times with Jim Bridger, other Mountain men, and Indians from 1833 to 1844. In 1837, his artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, painted the first pictures of this area. On Stewart’s last trip in August 1844, eight men in a rubbber boat, first boat on the lake, honored their leader by christening these waters as Stewart’s Lake, in a joyous ceremony near the Narrows, with six jugs of whiskey. Years later, this glacier-formed lake with its shoreline of twenty-two miles and over six hundred foot depth was named after Gen. John C. Fremont—the map makers knew not that it had been named long before.