Advocates hope to ride outdoor rec wave to funding, policy goals
25 Dec 2022
Lander, the state’s 13th-largest town with 7,500 residents, sits in a river valley in close proximity to an assortment of craggy features – limestone cliffs, pocked boulders, overhanging walls and alpine spires among them.
Each year, thousands of climbers spill into Lander explicitly to climb those rocks, pumping $4.5 million in lodging, transportation, retail and food purchases into Fremont County’s economy and supporting 51 jobs with some 37,000 climbing-focused visits.
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