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Kemmerer sits in the high desert of southwest Wyoming, a small coal and trona mining town near the Idaho and Utah borders where the land opens into wide sage flats and eroded badlands. The name "Fossil Island" almost certainly nods to the region's remarkable geological identity — this corner of Wyoming sits atop one of the world's richest Eocene fossil beds, and Fossil Butte National Monument lies just minutes to the west, preserving 50-million-year-old fish, turtles, and plant life pressed into the ancient lakebed limestone. A golf course carrying that name is playing on a genuinely rare sense of place.
What to expect practically: at roughly 6,800 feet elevation (the Kemmerer area sits high on the Wyoming Range foothills), the thin air adds real carry distance, and the high desert climate means short, dry summers with sharp winds a constant factor. Bentgrass or native rough conditions typical of the region reward ball-strikers who keep it in play.
For a course serving a small mining community, Fossil Island likely functions as the social anchor of local golf — the kind of place where the same regulars show up Saturday mornings and the game matters more than the amenities. That community character is often what makes small-town Wyoming courses genuinely worth a stop.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue/White · men | 6,706 | 71.9 | 121 | 72 |
| Green · men | 5,917 | 67.6 | 113 | 72 |
| Red/Yellow · women | 5,408 | 69.8 | 111 | 72 |
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