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Notes & News:
NOTICES:
- Here’s a friendly reminder from your Town of Pinedale Department
of Public Works . To prevent your water or sewer
lines from freezing up it is essential that Pinedale residents remember
to turn their water bleeders on. The
water stream needs to be about the diameter of a pencil in width to be
effective. There have been a number of water lines freezing up so
remember, to prevent this problem, please have your water bleeders on until
frozen ground conditions are gone from our area. Pinedale’s
Public Works Department thanks everyone for their cooperation.
- 2006 Town
of Pinedale Annual Drinking Water Quality Report (231K
PDF)
Town
Government Meetings: - Town Council meets each month on
the 2nd and 4th Monday, 5:30 pm, at the Pinedale Town Hall.
- Town Planning & Zoning Board meets the 1st Monday
of every month at 5:30 pm at the Pinedale Town Hall.
- All meetings are held in the Town Hall located at
210 West Pine Street. There is off-street parking on the south and east sides
of the Town Hall, as well as along Pine Street (US Highway 191).
- Meeting dates may
shift if fall on observed holidays.
 Pinedale
is located in western Wyoming, approximately 78 miles south of Jackson Hole and
90 miles south of Yellowstone National Park. We are in the heart of the Upper
Green River Valley, surrounded by three mountain ranges, which include two designated
wilderness areas. Approximately 80% of the county is public land managed by the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service. Pinedale proper sits at
7,100 feet elevation and has a population of about 1600. We are a relaxed, rural
community which serves as the recreational gateway to the Wind River Mountain
Range and Bridger Wilderness area. We also are at the northern edge of one of
the largest natural gas producing fields in Wyoming.
Pinedale is the county
seat for Sublette County. The courthouse is located in the center of town. We
have a town hall, medical clinic, county library, two weekly newspapers, a retirement
center, a senior citizen's center, a recycling center, and two town parks. There
is one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school. Recreational
facilities include a 9-hole golf course, indoor public pool, public ice skating
rink, skateboard park, tennis courts, downhill and cross-country ski facilities
and paved walking paths. Our airport is a general aviation airport located approximately
four miles south of Pinedale. The nearest commercial airport is 78 miles to the
north in Jackson and interstate highway is 100 miles to the south in Rock Springs.
We
have one 'main street' through town called Pine Street, which is also Highway
191, which connects Rock Springs to Jackson Hole. The majority of the businesses
are located along this street or within the first block of it. Pine Creek flows
through the middle of town, originating from Fremont Lake, the town's water supply,
four miles to the northeast. Government offices include the Pinedale Post
Office, the US Forest Service Bridger-Teton National Forest Pinedale Ranger District
office, the Pinedale office of the Bureau of Land Management, a Wyoming Game &
Fish office, the Sublette County Sheriff's office, Wyoming Highway Department,
and the Natural Resource Conservation Service office (NRCS). The Town of
Pinedale owns the general aviation airport located on US. Hwy 191, approximately
five miles south of Pinedale and six miles north of Boulder. Ralph Wenz Field
has an asphalt surface runway 7100' x 100', with NDB approach, and AWOSIII-P/T
weather station. Elevation is 7080'. This field is suitable for larger corporate
jets. Services include fuel, line service, aircraft maintenance, repair and inspection,
transient hangar space, crew car, flight instruction, 24-hour availability.
The
state of Wyoming has a 4% sales tax and we have an additional countywide 3% lodging
tax. There are no business licenses required in Pinedale. Area visitor information
is available from the county tourism website, supported by a county-wide lodging
tax: Visit Sublette County, 1-888-285-7282, info@mountainmancountry.com
(www.MountainManCountry.com).
Business and service information is available from the Sublette County Chamber
of Commerce.(www.sublettechamber.com).
Socioeconomic information is available at the Sublette County Socioeconomic
Analysis Advisory Committee website (www.sublette-se.org). |
