List of Wyoming state parks
This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Wyoming state park system operated by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. [A]
State parks and recreation areas
[edit]| Name | County | Size[2] | Estab- lished |
Image | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acres | ha | |||||
| Bear River State Park | Uinta | 324 | 131 | 1991 |  |
Within the city limits of Evanston |
| Boysen State Park | Fremont | 35,952 | 14,549 | 1956 | .jpg) |
Surrounds the Boysen Reservoir |
| Buffalo Bill State Park | Park | 11,276 | 4,563 | 1957 | .jpg) |
Surrounds the Buffalo Bill Reservoir |
| Curt Gowdy State Park | Laramie | 3,395 | 1,374 | 1971 | .jpg) |
Recreation on and around three reservoirs |
| Edness K. Wilkins State Park | Natrona | 361 | 146 | 1981 |  |
On the North Platte River |
| Glendo State Park | Converse, Platte | 18,382 | 7,439 | 1959 |  |
Surrounds the Glendo Reservoir |
| Guernsey State Park | Platte | 8,631 | 3,493 | 1925 |  |
Surrounds the Guernsey Reservoir |
| Hawk Springs State Recreation Area | Goshen | 996 | 403 | 1987 |  |
On Hawk Springs Reservoir |
| Hot Springs State Park | Hot Springs | 1,108.67 | 448.66 | 1897 |  |
On the Big Horn River in Thermopolis |
| Keyhole State Park | Crook | 15,890 | 6,430 | 1952 |  |
Surrounds the Keyhole Reservoir |
| Seminoe State Park | Carbon | 20,848 | 8,437 | 1965 |  |
On the Seminoe Reservoir |
| Sinks Canyon State Park | Fremont | 600 | 240 | 1971 |  |
Underground river on the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River |
State-administered historic sites
[edit]| Name | Locality | Size | Image | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acres | ha | ||||
| Ames Monument | Albany County | 8.44 | 3.42 | .jpg) |
Pyramid designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, dedicated to Union Pacific Railroad financiers Oakes and Oliver Ames |
| Camp Douglas Officers’ Club | Douglas | 1.5 | 0.61 |  |
World War II internment camp for prisoners of war |
| Connor Battlefield | Ranchester | 13.2 | 5.3 | Site of the Battle of the Tongue River | |
| Fort Bonneville | Sublette County | 1 | 0.40 | Fortified winter camp and fur trading post stablished in 1832 by Captain Benjamin Bonneville | |
| Fort Bridger | Uinta County | 40 | 16 |  |
United States Army outpost during the Utah War |
| Fort Fetterman | Converse County | 60.46 | 24.47 |  |
Ruins of wooden fort constructed in 1867 by the United States Army |
| Fort Fred Steele | Carbon County | 138.5 | 56.0 |  |
Ruins of fort established in 1868 by the United States Army |
| Fort Phil Kearny | Johnson County | 713.06 | 288.57 |  |
United States Army outpost from the 1860s on the Bozeman Trail |
| Fort Reno | Johnson County | 14.8 | 6.0 |  |
Site of wooden fortification established in Dakota Territory by the United States Army in 1865 |
| Granger Stage Station | Granger | 1 | 0.40 |  |
Station on the Pony Express (1860-1861) and the Overland Trail |
| Historic Governors' Mansion | Cheyenne | .46 | 0.19 |  |
Governor's mansion from 1905 to 1976 |
| Independence Rock | Natrona County | 202.93 | 82.12 |  |
Prominent granite landmark for travelers on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails |
| Legend Rock State Archaeological Site | Hot Springs County | 30.98 | 12.54 |  |
Near vertical cliff with more than 92 prehistoric petroglyph panels and 300 petroglyph figures |
| Medicine Lodge State Archaeological Site | Big Horn County | 200 | 81 | Sandstone cliff with hundreds of Native American petroglyphs and pictographs | |
| Names Hill | Lincoln County | 4.25 | 1.72 |  |
Bluff near a crossing on the Green River where travelers on the Oregon and California trails carved their names |
| Oregon Trail Ruts | Platte County | 34.17 | 13.83 | _-_Oregon_Trail_Ruts_16-9-2014_11-06-06.JPG) |
Remnants of the Oregon Trail's westward migration worn into sandstone |
| Piedmont Charcoal Kilns | Uinta County | .886 | 0.359 |  |
Remnants of the charcoal-making industry in southwestern Wyoming |
| Platte River Crossing | Carbon County | 7 | 2.8 | Point at which the Overland Trail crossed the North Platte River | |
| Point of Rocks Stage Station | Sweetwater County | 1 | 0.40 |  |
Meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad |
| Quebec-One Missile Alert Facility | Laramie County | 1 | 0.40 |  |
|
| Register Cliff | Platte County | .16 | 0.065 |  |
Navigational landmark on the Oregon Trail |
| South Pass City | Fremont County | 345.88 | 139.97 |  |
Surviving "ghost town" on the Oregon Trail |
| Trail End | Sheridan | 3.76 | 1.52 |  |
Mansion of cattleman and politician John B. Kendrick |
| Woodruff Cabin Site | Hot Springs County | 1 | 0.40 | Location of the first European-American settlement in the Big Horn Basin | |
| Wyoming Pioneer Memorial Museum | Douglas | 1.4 | 0.57 | Collections of materials related to the westward expansion | |
| Wyoming Territorial Prison | Laramie | 197.4 | 79.9 |  |
Federal penitentiary from 1872 to 1890; state prison from 1890 to 1901 |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ R, Mike (August 13, 2021). "State Parks Light Pollution Map And Statistics". CosmosPNW. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- ^ "Table 1. Facilities managed by Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails" (PDF). SOAR 2021. Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. p. 12. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
