Fort Laramie Trail

Before it was a stage road, this was the supply road from Cheyenne to Fort Laramie, and the people who drove it remembered it by its stops. North from Fort D. A. Russell came the Nine Mile ranch, Swartz's road house, Goodwin's, Bard's and Snow's ranches, Bear Springs, the Chugwater and Chug Springs, Kelley's place, Point of Rocks, Hunton's ranch and the Eagles' Nest, then the crossing of the Laramie River into the fort. The stone that remembers it now stands on a city golf course.

What the plaque says

Fort Laramie Trail This stone marks that road of romance and adventure traveled by trappers, traders and troops to Fort Laramie, the most historic spot in the west. 1867-1887

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cheyenne Frontier Days — steps away
  A railroad agent's excursion scheme for a town with no crop to celebrate, which became a six-hour show in 1897 and the Daddy of 'em All.
• Wyoming State Capitol — 1.6 mi
  A sandstone capitol set to face the Union Pacific depot down one long street, its copper dome gilded in 1900 when the copper tarnished.

More markers nearby

• The Cheyenne-Ft. Laramie-Deadwood Trail — 1.7 mi
• Camp Carlin — 1.8 mi
• Mrs. Esther Hobart Morris — 1.8 mi
• Durant Bell — 1.8 mi