Almond Overland Stage Station

The stone calls the station ruins; it no longer is one. The state bought the sandstone building in 1947, the year this stone went up, and restored it in 1990 and again in 2005, though its stables are still a ruin. Its working life ran well past the stage: from 1868 it stood where the railroad met the Overland Trail, and in the 1870s it was the nearest railroad stop to the South Pass gold mines, 75 miles and a fifteen-hour coach ride north. It was also a store, a school and a home.

What the plaque says

Ruins of Almond Overland Stage Station, 1862-8. Located beyond railroad tracks, 1640 feet to southward of this marker. Erected by Wyoming Historical Landmark Commission 1947

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Boar's Tusk and the Killpecker Dunes — 29 mi
  The throat of a vanished volcano made of rock from the mantle, standing over a fifty-five-mile river of dunes that crosses the Continental Divide.

More markers nearby

• Overland Stage Route (Point of Rocks) — steps away
• Rough Travels — 0.4 mi
• The Reliance Tipple — 21 mi
• Tri-Territory Historic Site — 23 mi