Elkhead Creek drains land to the north and east, runs 37 miles, and enters the Yampa River a short distance south of this point. Elkhead Reservoir, four miles north, holds 25,500 acre-feet of water; it opened in 1975, was expanded, and reopened in 2007. U.S. 40, completed in the early 1920s as a route from the East Coast to the West Coast, was named the Victory Highway to honor those who served during World War I, and in 1922 Craig, six miles west and the county seat of Moffat County, renamed its main street Victory Way in recognition of this ocean-to-ocean road. In 1871 the original government road from Wyoming crossed the Yampa River just south of this site. The railroad reached Craig in 1913 as part of David Moffat's long-sought line from Denver to Salt Lake City, arriving two years after his death following years of financial struggle; his private 1906 Pullman railcar, Marcia, remains in Craig, and Moffat County was named for him when it separated from Routt County in 1911. Moffat County covers more than three million acres, about two-thirds public land used for recreation including hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing, with trails crossing sagebrush basins, mountain forests, and Dinosaur National Monument; the Yampa and Green Rivers meet at Echo Park, and outlaws once gathered in the Brown's Park area.