South Pass

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.

Example Sentences

North Carolina is a “haven where patients can access abortion even as politicians throughout the south pass dozens of restrictions attacking fundamental rights,” Nancy Northup, who leads the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement.

From Washington Post

The view up South Pass from atop the Port Eads lighthouse was one I had carried in my mind’s eye for more than 10 years; I knew from maps that a lighthouse was there, and if I could somehow get to it and climb it, I would capture the view I wanted.

From New York Times

Port Eads, sitting at the end of South Pass, 12 miles below Pilottown, was a bustling resort in the late 1800s, and the main commercial entrance into the river, made possible by jetties built at the mouth of the pass by James Buchanan Eads.

From New York Times

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

Fitfully leading an expedition of some twenty men over what was for the most part previously trodden ground, he managed to get to South Pass and climb a nearby peak, which he decided was the highest in all the Rockies.

From The New Yorker