{"id":11212,"date":"2024-11-05T15:03:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2025-02-10T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T21:55:39","slug":"vedauwoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/vedauwoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vedauwoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Places that you may never have heard of<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve made countless cross country trips by car usually traveling our Interstate Highway system. Sometimes I&#8217;ll see a sign with a name that I don&#8217;t recognize and it&#8217;s these places that my pique my curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Driving in Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie is a place with an odd name &#8211; Vedauwoo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-300x299.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_4493.jpg 1243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While not conclusive, its name is said to come from the Arapahoes who have called this area home for centuries. By taking this exit, a short drive will take you Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest which is home to an abundance of wildlife and fauna.<\/p>\n<p>But Vedawoo is best known as a popular destination for bouldering and rock climbers who are challenged by a very extensive group of huge, hard granite formations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Valley-Massiff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11314 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Valley-Massiff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>Above photos is an example of one of these challenging formations. [photo courtesy of Stacy Bender of <strong>Climbing Older<\/strong> website]<\/p>\n<p>To find climbing information and personal experiences from Stacy Bender visit his website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climbingolder.net\/~stacy.bender\/Vedauwoo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climbing Older<\/a>. And while Stacy&#8217;s site may target the older (read: senior) among us, I&#8217;m sticking to the hiking paths rather than hanging from rocks with ropes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For more for in information about the tackling the Vedauwoos through climbing, biking or hiking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vedauwoo.org\/about-vedauwoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Still Interested?<\/h3>\n<p>Here are a few more places that you may never have heard of &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/argenta-nv\/\">Argenta, Nevada<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/aragonite-utah\/\">Aragonite, Utah<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/beowawe\/\">Beowawe, Nevada<br \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/dunphy-nevada\/\">Dunphy, Nevada<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/jackpot\/\">Jackpot, Nevada<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/mercury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mercury, Nevada<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/beowawe\/\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/rhyolite\/\">Rhyolite, Nevada<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/beowawe\/\"><br \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wamsutter-wy\/\">Wamsutter, Wyoming<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Places that you may never have heard of I&#8217;ve made countless cross country trips by car usually traveling our Interstate Highway system. Sometimes I&#8217;ll see a sign with a name that I don&#8217;t recognize and it&#8217;s these places that my pique my curiosity. Driving in Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie is a place with an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/vedauwoo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vedauwoo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11212"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11889,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11212\/revisions\/11889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}