| You’re standing on an historical landmark of the Green and Colorado Rivers exploration - Expedition Island. Named long after the Powell expeditions 1869 and 1871, the island commemorates early western river exploration.
As you walk around this path, you will read about the river runners who answered the “call to the river” and floated here in the Green River path before and after Powell’s celebrated expeditions.
There were almost as many reasons for river travel on the Green as there were people floating. There were fur trappers, explorers, gold seekers, dam builders, developers, and finally the adventurers who came for the excitement and to see nature’s wonders.
These signs were erected by the Green River Parks and Recreation Department in celebration of Green River’s 100th birthday as an incorporated city and in honor of the men and women who answered the call and ran the river.
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