Well, when you come to Riverside Lodge for your summer get-away in Riverside Wyoming, you will quickly understand why they say that! A short drive to nearby Saratoga, Wyoming will follow (from a distance) the Grand Encampment and the North Platte Rivers that run through the valley toward the see.
In Saratoga, the North Platte is truly a part of Main Street and when their little hearts are happy or the bugs just right, you can see the trout leap while watching from the bridge or along the shore. From the beginning the town as embraced the river and the fishing there.
This year, according to a recent article in the Casper Star Tribune, written by Janice Kurbjun, entitled “Saratoga: Where the trout leap in Main Street”, the library at the Saratoga Elementary School is extending that embrace into a strong learning project about the Valley, the weather, wildlife, the soils, recreation for locals and visitors, and of course, the ability to write about it all. They will learn what their teachers, parents and the community knows; they can write and express themselves successfully.
Librarian Ceile Fisher arranged for area experts from the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlings Conservation District, the Wyoming Game Commission, the BLM Fisheries, the USDA Forest Service, the Arapahoe National Wildlife Refuge and the Saratoga National Fish Hatchery to make presentations to the students in each of their fields about the environment that makes Saratoga the little town where the trout leap in main street and where kids grow up surrounded by mountain beauty and solitary peace.
Presentations were interactive game type activities that let the kids get a picture of ecological life along the river.
The crowning glory of the project that Fisher hopes to maintain and keep on a four year rotation so all kids get to learn through the resources is the LITTLE Fish tank in the Library where everyone at the school anxiously awaits a hatch of new trout grow large enough to be released at the Saratoga National Fish Hatchery.
The news just keeps going around and around till we’ve all seen it Down by Riverside Lodge
