Weird history42.4952° N, 108.7188° W
Atlantic City, WY
A tiny surviving mining settlement where modern residents, old structures and surrounding gold-rush remnants overlap.
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- Weird history42.1080° N, 109.4532° W
Farson, WY
A highway turnout marks the public-accessible Fort Bridger route crossing of the Big Sandy used by multiple national historic trails.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history42.4741° N, 108.7938° W
South Pass City, WY
The restored gold mine above South Pass City preserves hoisting, milling and mining infrastructure from the district's boom years.
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- Weird history42.9293° N, 107.6137° W
Fremont County, WY
Wind-carved sandstone 'castles' surround protected Native American petroglyph panels at this remote BLM site.
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- Weird history41.8920° N, 109.0928° W
Sweetwater County, WY
A remote BLM rock-art site with historic-era petroglyphs reached by rough backcountry roads; high clearance is recommended.
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- Weird history44.5147° N, 109.1172° W
Cody, WY
A largely dormant thermal area whose early reports by John Colter helped fuel frontier stories about a strange 'hell' of steam and hot water.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history44.9087° N, 107.1639° W
Ranchester, WY
A state historic site interprets the 1865 Battle of Tongue River, also known as the Connor Battle, within a public park.
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- Weird history41.9566° N, 109.0824° W
Sweetwater County, WY
A preserved ranch site in the Killpecker area where BLM interpretation connects local ranch history with stories of Butch Cassidy passing through.
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- Weird history42.4410° N, 107.2210° W
Natrona County, WY
The Sweetwater River slices through a narrow granite gorge that became one of the most memorable landmarks on the emigrant trails.
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- Weird history43.9355° N, 109.2121° W
Park County, WY
Remote ranch remains are tied to Amelia Earhart, who planned a cabin in the Kirwin country before her 1937 disappearance.
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- Weird history42.8446° N, 106.5389° W
Natrona County, WY
A BLM interpretive stop marks an important passage through the terrain used by overland emigrants approaching the North Platte corridor.
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- Weird history42.2845° N, 109.0590° W
Sweetwater County, WY
A signed trail junction recalls how emigrant routes split across the high desert—and why this spot was long confused with the true Parting of the Ways.
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- Weird history44.5715° N, 106.8413° W
Johnson County, WY
The site marks the 1866 battle in which 81 U.S. soldiers and civilians were killed after leaving Fort Phil Kearny.
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- Weird history41.3181° N, 110.3913° W
Fort Bridger, WY
Jim Bridger's trading-post site later became a military fort and major stopping point on western emigrant routes.
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- Weird history42.8360° N, 106.3716° W
Casper, WY
A reconstructed frontier post sits at an important North Platte crossing used by emigrant trails, ferries and the Pony Express.
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- Weird history41.7788° N, 106.9463° W
Carbon County, WY
Ruins and surviving buildings mark the 1868 military post built to protect workers and traffic along the first transcontinental railroad.
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- Weird history42.2030° N, 104.5459° W
Fort Laramie, WY
A major fur-trade post and military fort on the Oregon, California and Mormon Pioneer trail corridor, with extensive preserved structures.
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- Weird history44.5322° N, 106.8260° W
Banner, WY
A reconstructed stockade footprint and visitor center interpret the short-lived 1860s fort at the center of Red Cloud's War.
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- Weird history43.7893° N, 108.2292° W
Hot Springs County, WY
Abandoned coal-camp remains, foundations and cemetery traces survive in a remote BLM-managed mining district; old workings are unsafe to enter.
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- Weird history42.4936° N, 107.1294° W
Natrona County, WY
A huge granite landmark where generations of emigrants carved names while traveling the overland trails west.
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- Weird history43.8764° N, 109.2979° W
Park County, WY
A high-elevation mining town abandoned after an avalanche, reached by a rough road deep in the Absaroka Mountains.
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- Weird history41.8118° N, 111.0247° W
Kemmerer, WY
A phosphate mining and processing locality in western Wyoming — not Utah, despite the nearest town being over the line. The Leefe Mine ran from 1947 until Wyoming phosphate production ended in 1977. The mine and plant area lies about thirty miles west of Kemmerer and is not maintained for visitors; do not enter old workings or industrial property.
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- Weird history43.8003° N, 108.5972° W
Hot Springs County, WY
A long sandstone cliff preserves hundreds of Indigenous petroglyph figures, including examples of the Dinwoody tradition.
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- Weird history42.1965° N, 109.3784° W
Sublette County, WY
An overland-trail crossing associated with emigrant travel and the meeting of Jim Bridger and Brigham Young.
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