South Pass

American  

noun

1. a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.

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Example Sentences

It’s intended to restore the hydrology in the Mississippi River Bird’s Foot Delta by dredging portions of Pass-a-Loutre, South Pass, and/or Southeast Pass to reconnect the river with the delta’s marshes.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2020

By the 1820s, a well-marked trail stretched from Independence, Missouri, up the Missouri River, and across the plains to Oregon by way of South Pass.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Moran run will be closed from Togwotee Traverse to South Pass Traverse from Sunday, March 6 through March 13 to construct and hold the boarder cross event.

From Time Magazine Archive

If nothing else, later traders and settlers, appalled by the expedition's experience, learned where not to go and found a friendlier route along the Platte River across Nebraska and over South Pass in Wyoming.

From Time Magazine Archive

We now came to the last-leaving of the Sweetwater, which is within ten miles of the highest elevation of the South Pass.

From In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 by Cole, Gilbert L.