Henry B. Joy Monument

Henry Joy, president of the Packard Motor Car Company and the Lincoln Highway Association's first president, told his family he wanted to be buried at the spot in Wyoming's Great Divide Basin where he had seen the most beautiful sunset of his life. They set this monument there instead, beside the old highway west of Rawlins, in 1938. Out there it drew vandals, and in 2001 it was moved about 140 miles east to the Summit rest area, fenced and ringed with four replica Lincoln Highway road markers.

What the plaque says

"That there should be a Lincoln Highway across this country is the important thing" In memory of Henry · B · Joy · the first president of the Lincoln Highway Association · who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific · · 1938 ·

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vedauwoo — 6.3 mi
  Knobs of 1.4-billion-year-old granite between Laramie and Cheyenne, rough as sandpaper and famous among climbers for its wide cracks.

More markers nearby

• Abraham Lincoln — steps away
• Telephone Canyon — steps away
• Lonetree on the Laramie Range — 8.5 mi
• Tree in the Rock — 8.5 mi