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Green River is a town on Interstate 70. Although small, it has useful services for the camper and tourist and can serve as apoint of departure for several of the parks covered in these webpages.
We stayed in the United Campground, just east of the bridge on "Old Highway," the town's main east-west street. It is also possible to tent in a state park in town.
There is a stoplight a few blocks west of the bridge over the Green River, and you can find a good local supermarket going south from it a few blocks. Ray's tavern, a few hundred feet south of the light is an excellent steakhouse.
Info on national parks in the area is available at a government building on Old Highway, as is a small but very good museum telling of John Wesley Powell and his historic expeditions of discovery in this area. This remarkable man, a Civil War veteran who lost
an arm in that conflict, was appointed to explore this last remaining large blank in the US map of that time, and did so (among other ways) on a raft going down the Colorado River
through the Grand Canyon.
