Today marks the start of our annual family road trip vacation. This year we are headed to Idaho and northern Utah. To get to those locations, we must pass through Wyoming. Last night after work we drove to Rawlins, Wyoming where we spent the night in a hotel. This morning, we drove west on I-80 and exited at the Kemmerer exit for our drive to Fossil Butte National Monument and on to Bear Lake. However, our first stop was a small Wyoming State Historic Site: Granger Stage Station.
Granger Stage Station was built in the 1850s on the Overland Trail, which was a stagecoach route used primarily in the 1860s as an alternative to the Oregon/California Trails. It was also used as a stopover station on the short-lived Pony Express.
Mark Twain was amongst the stagecoach passengers who traveled past Granger. When the Union Pacific Railroad arrived to Granger in 1868 the stage station fell out of use and was deeded to the state of Wyoming in 1930.
Our visit to Granger Stage Station was interesting, but short. After about 15 minutes of reading the signs and looking around, we continued on to Kemmerer and Fossil Butte National Monument.
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