The Overland Stage Station Route (Green River)

Three hundred and fifty yards east puts the station on the south bank, behind today's Game and Fish office on Astle Avenue, where Overlook Park now marks it. Its stone building, corrals, outbuildings and cemetery were the seed of Green River, though the settlement that grew into the town, called Adobe Town or Old Town, rose across the river on a homestead. Coaches forded the river below the station; the next stops were Lonetree, about twelve miles west, and Rock Springs to the east. The stone's 1861 is a year early: the line came south in 1862.

What the plaque says

The Overland Stage Station Route operated 1861 - 1868 Green River Division Station Site 350 yards east Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming 1952

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Expedition Island — 0.4 mi
  Where John Wesley Powell's 1871 survey left for the canyons of the Green and Colorado; where his 1869 trip started has never been proven.

More markers nearby

• Powell - Colorado River Expedition 1869 — 0.5 mi
• Oregon Trail Memorial (Green River) — 0.8 mi
• Art Gallery of Time — 11 mi
• Bryan — 12 mi