Oregon Trail

A sign a few yards from this shaft names the place Cold Springs, a camping ground on the river road that the sign dates as a stage station from 1854 to 1862 and a Pony Express relay in 1860 and 1861, its keeper given only as M. Reynal. A man of that surname, Antoine Reynall, had signed as a witness to the trader James Bordeaux's account of the Grattan fight in 1854. The shaft is one of the state's 1914 granite markers, set beside what is now US-85 south of Torrington.

What the plaque says

Oregon Trail Marked by the State of Wyoming 1914

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Laramie National Historic Site — 22 mi
  Old Bedlam, the officers' quarters of 1849, survived the auction that scattered the rest of the post; an 1875 Army bridge still crosses the river.

More markers nearby

• To All Pioneers — 0.5 mi
• Stuart's 1812-13 Astorian Party Campsite — 3.8 mi
• The Oregon Trail — 7.1 mi
• Oregon Trail — 9.7 mi