Trappers Rendezvous

This boulder sits in a park beside Federal Boulevard; the rendezvous ground lies on the river, at the confluence reached by East Monroe Avenue. In 1838 the meeting had been called for Horse Creek, on the Green, and was moved here, and a note left at a cabin there sent latecomers to the Popo Agie. Four missionary couples bound for Oregon camped on an island in the confluence from June 21, and their diaries are why this rendezvous is so well documented. In the 1980s the highway department planned to mine it for gravel; preservationists stopped it.

What the plaque says

In memory of the trappers, traders and explorers, who established the rendezvous at the junction of the Little and Big Wind Rivers. Dedicated by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming July 7 1940

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Stephen's Mission — 3.5 mi
  A Jesuit mission on land the Arapaho leader Black Coal chose, its church painted with Arapaho designs, its boarding school named for what it was.

More markers nearby

• Bonneville Cabins — 14 mi
• Site of Fort Thompson or Camp Magraw — 20 mi
• Sinks Canyon - Corridor to the Winds — 28 mi