Old Overland Trail

The first in the county, and two years ahead of the state. The Jacques Laramie Chapter set this stone in 1911, when Wyoming's DAR chapters had only begun marking the old roads; the legislature created its Oregon Trail Commission only in 1913. The stage road the stone marks carried Overland coaches from 1862 until the railroad reached the Laramie Plains in 1868. More than a century on, the chapter still owns the marker and looks after it.

What the plaque says

The first stone erected in Albany Co to mark the Old Overland Trail 1862 — 1868 Erected by Jacques Laramie Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution Laramie Wyoming 1911

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vedauwoo — 19 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

• Fort Sanders — 6.2 mi
• The Overland Trail — 6.2 mi
• Laramie — 7.1 mi
• First Woman Jury — 7.4 mi