Green River, Wyoming

Life in Green River, Wyoming, explained by people who’ve lived in Green River:

*Response format = Answer (Your name, How long you’ve lived in Green River)

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What’s your favorite thing about living in Green River?

What’s your least favorite thing about living in Green River?

Distance from family. (Amy, 5 years)
City council. (Ryan, 11 years)
Lack of business and lousy government spending. (Kenny, 16 years)
Distance to good shopping. (Jessica, 17 years)
Lack of cultural events, educational opportunities, a health food store, book store, more trees, less negativity and the winters. If your not an outdoorsman there is little to do. (Juanita, 25 years)
Limited shopping. (Karie, 27 years)
Lack of opportunities, especially to keep our kids here. I’m pretty sure this a common complaint: the lack of shopping. (Lucy, 40 years)

What are fun things to do in Green River?

Float the river, museum, visiting people…some really great people live here, awesome library activities, school activities. (Amy, 5 years)
Green belt. (Ryan, 11 years)
Fishing and off-roading. (Kenny, 16 years)
River! (Jessica, 17 years)
Sports, rec center, play in the river, walk the green belt and the activities that the city and others put on. (Karie, 27 years)
Flaming Gorge Days, the river festival. The parks are awesome. My grandkids love coming here and go to the water park in the summer. (Lucy, 40 years)

What’s Green River known for?

John Wesley Powell started expedition here. World’s largest Trona mines. Close to the Flaming Gorge, and the Green River. (Amy, 5 years)
Idiots who created the space port. (Ryan, 11 years)
The river and the mines. (Kenny, 16 years)
River. (Jessica, 17 years)
The railroad, the river, Flaming Gorge Reservoir. (Juanita, 25 years)
The Green River ordinance. (Karie, 27 years)
The start of the Powell expedition to explore the Colorado. (Lucy, 40 years)

What’s the crime like in Green River? (hot spot areas, etc.)

There is crime, but I have never seen or been affected by it personally. (Amy, 5 years)
Not terrible. (Ryan, 11 years)
Low crime. (Kenny, 16 years)
It all comes from I-80. (Juanita, 25 years)
Drugs are bad, but fairly mild otherwise. (Karie, 27 years)
There is crime, mostly petty stuff. There is drug use, and of course that leads to domestic violence. Though I believe that it definitely isn’t as bad as some people probably believe. (Lucy, 40 years)

Any advice for people moving to Green River?

If you have a good attitude and try to get to know people you can be happy almost anywhere. (Amy, 5 years)
Have a good job. (Ryan, 11 years)
There’s no jobs. (Kenny, 16 years)
Give yourself time, get out, and get involved. (Jessica, 17 years)
If you like to be cold, deal with small town gossip & simply want to work- come on down. (Juanita, 25 years)
Get involved. (Karie, 27 years)
Be prepared for great people, they will be over with food and offering to help. If you are moving from a larger metropolitan area, be prepared for a slower life style. (Lucy, 40 years)

Share an experience you’ve had in Green River (fun, crazy, dangerous, etc.).

Two of my children were caught in the current and almost drowned the first summer we moved here. (Amy, 5 years)
Realizing I don’t have to speed to get somewhere…its only 5 minutes away. (Jessica, 17 years)
There used to be fun concerts on the Island but the city had taken that away. (Juanita, 25 years)
I just love how we can come together in good times and bad. I love the movies in the park too. (Karie, 27 years)
We lost our home to a fire eight years ago, I can’t tell you how much support, love, caring, and help we received from our neighbors and friends. This is the kindest people in the world. (Lucy, 40 years)

How do you think Green River will change over the next 10 years?

Worse of Mormons continue to elect incompetent fools to run the city. (Ryan, 11 years)
It won’t. (Kenny, 16 years)
It depends on what happens with the industries around here. (Jessica, 17 years)
Young people will leave, old people and trees will die. (Juanita, 25 years)
I hope that we can bring in a bit more commerce to draw people from Rock Springs over more, and I hope that we continue to be a quiet, family friendly community. (Karie, 27 years)
I’m worried that we will have an aging population and not enough younger people here. (Lucy, 40 years)

Any other interesting facts about Green River?

We have an intergalactic airport. (Kenny, 16 years)
The Powell expedition, the wild horses, our history. (Karie, 27 years)
That we were incorporated in 1868. That means we are 150 years old. (Lucy, 40 years)