Pioneer Monument

The obelisk carries two rounds of marking. The Natrona County Pioneer Association raised it in 1911 on the site of the trail through the young town, two years before the state commission began its own markers, and the state added the bronze in 1914. The bronze's directions run short: the post it names, reconstructed in the 1930s and now Fort Caspar's museum, lies about two and a half miles west-southwest, not one. It also gives the abandonment as October 19, 1867, where the register's copy of its text reads 1897.

What the plaque says

Pioneer Monument Erected on the site of the Old Oregon Trail In memory of the pioneers who blazed the way Built by Natrona County Pioneer Association 1849 1911 Fort Casper U. S. Military Post Established about 1864 by volunteers Abandoned Oct. 19, 1867 Situated one mile west of this spot Marked by the State of Wyoming 1914

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Caspar Museum — 2.6 mi
  The crossing before the fort: the Mormon ferry of 1847 and Guinard's toll bridge of 1859, rebuilt beside the 1936 log station.

More markers nearby

• Oregon Trail Memorial — 2.6 mi
• The Pony Express — 2.6 mi
• Oregon Trail — 2.6 mi
• Oregon Trail — 2.6 mi