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AFTON
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Star Valley lies between the Peaks of the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range of eastern Idaho. The town of Afton in Star Valley has easy access to hiking and horseback riding trails, mountian lakes and streams for fishing, and hundreds of miles of forest roads and highways for sightseeing. Yellowstone and Teton National Parks as well as the Jackson Hole area are an easy day trip from Afton. The Bridger and Caribou National Forests provide camping, hunting, and sightseeing opportunities.
Afton is home of the World's Largest Elkhorn Arch. Spanning 75 feet across the four lanes of US Highway 89, the arch consists of 3,011 elk antlers and weighs 15 tons. In addition, Afton is also home to the world's largest periodic spring. This cold water geyser is the largest of only three known in the world and the only one in North America. The periodic spring is Afton's main water supply, it cycles on and off during the summer, fall and winter at 12 to 18 minute intervals. During the spring the flow never stops due to increased water supply from the melting snowpack. At full flow the Periodic Spring discharges up to 285 gallons per second.
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In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Star Valley lies between the Peaks of the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range of eastern Idaho. The town of Afton in Star Valley has easy access to hiking and horseback riding trails, mountian lakes and streams for fishing, and hundreds of miles of forest roads and highways for sightseeing. Yellowstone and Teton National Parks as well as the Jackson Hole area are an easy day trip from Afton. The Bridger and Caribou National Forests provide camping, hunting, and sightseeing opportunities.
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