Where To Find Wyoming’s Old Stagecoach Stops

Ever find yourself complaining about potholes on Wyoming interstates?

How about we go back to the time when the stagecoach was king?

Narrow two-rut trails -- I'm really not willing to call them roads -- with massive rocks and holes, among other problems, made traveling by stagecoach a very uncomfortable ride.

But still better than walking.

Wyoming had many stagecoach stops in place to change coaches and horses. Or mules.

Forget what you see in Hollywood movies. Mules pulled most stage coaches because they could travel farther than a horse.

Stage coaches did not run their animals at a full gallop like you see in old West movies unless they were fighting off bandits or Indians.

Some of Wyoming's most famous stagecoach stops are lost to us.

We only know that they were there because history tells us so.

By the way, the next time you run for the passenger seat and yell SHOTGUN, think about where that came from.

But you drive by them as you drive across Wyoming.

You can visit many of these old sites.

A few still have buildings standing and historic markers.

Below is a list of old stations with internet links and directions.

Some of Wyoming's more important stops were:

Arlington

Cheyenne–Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations

Duck Lake Station 

Dug Springs Station 

Granger Stage Station

Jenney Stockade

Midway Station 

Pine Grove Station 

Point of Rocks Stage Station 

Powder River Station-Powder River Crossing

Rattlesnake Station

Richardson's Overland Trail Ranch

Sage Creek Station 

Stone Ranch Stage Station

Washakie Station