Goshen Hole
— — a low country the high plains step down into.
Not only on a wall.
“A wide bowl in the high plains of southeastern Wyoming, ringed by a long escarpment the maps call the Goshen Hole Rim. The North Platte runs through the middle of it on the way to the Nebraska line, with irrigated sugar-beet and alfalfa ground stretching out from the river. Drive east from Cheyenne and the country drops away in one slow tilt: the rim falls, the river arrives, and the light reaches further than it did an hour ago. The sky here is most of the picture. from the studio
Goshen Hole, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Goshen Hole is a broad structural basin in southeastern Wyoming, mostly contained within Goshen County and reaching into eastern Platte and northern Laramie counties. The basin floor sits roughly 4,000 to 4,300 feet above sea level, ringed by a long erosional escarpment known as the Goshen Hole Rim that rises 300 to 600 feet above it. The North Platte River crosses the basin from west to east, joined by Horse Creek and Bear Creek before the river flows into Nebraska. The town of Torrington is the agricultural and county seat of the basin.
The rim is built of Miocene and Pliocene sediments, mostly the Arikaree and Ogallala formations, eroded back from a once-continuous high-plains surface. The exposed cliffs and bluffs show the same pale tan and rust-banded sandstones and siltstones that surface along the Nebraska Wildcat Hills and Scotts Bluff to the east. Goshen Hole is, in effect, the western end of that same erosional system: the Rim is the receding edge of the high plains, and the basin floor is what the wind and the North Platte have carved out of it.
U.S. Highway 26 runs across the basin from Fort Laramie east to Torrington and on to the Nebraska line at Henry, the simplest way to see the country from the road. From Cheyenne, U.S. 85 climbs out of the city and drops down through the Goshen Hole Rim near Hawk Springs State Recreation Area, a small reservoir and campground on the southern edge of the basin. There are no national park units inside Goshen Hole itself; Fort Laramie National Historic Site sits at its western edge. The basin is working farmland.