Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch, but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner, in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s

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The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is somewhat like a beautiful national park but minus tourists and their inconsiderate behavior. It is uncrowded, teeming with wildlife, inaccessible from other than a dead-end dirt road on strictly private property, unspoiled by visitors taking "selfie" photographs, and unadulterated by tour buses, trash and other detritus.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.