Wyoming Stations

The Pony Express Trail sent riders up and over the Continental Divide and through the South Pass.

  1. Cold Springs / Spring Ranch / Junction House / Torrington / Spring
  2. Verdling’s Ranch / Bordeaux’s Ranch / Laramie City / Beauvais Ranch / Badeau’s
  3. Fort Laramie      (the XP Station was located a short distance west of the garrison)
  4. Nine Mile House / Nine Mile / Sand Point / Ward / Central Star      (at Register Cliff)
  5. Cottonwood / Cottonwood Creek / Bitter Cottonwood
  6. (H) Horse Shoe / Horseshoe / Horseshoe Creek
  7. Elk Horn / Elkhorn
  8. La Bonta / La Bonte
  9. Bed Tick / Clute’s Ranch / Fetterman / Douglas / Orin
  10. Lapierelle / La Prele / La Prelle
  11. Box Elder
  12. (H) Deer Creek
  13. Little Muddy / Glen Rock
  14. Bridger / Platte
  15. North Platte / Platte Bridge / Casper
  16. Red Butte / Red Buttes
  17. (H) Willow Springs / Willow Spring
  18. Horse Creek / Greasewood Creek
  19. Sweet Water / Sweetwater Bridge / Independence Rock
  20. Plant’s Ranch / Plante’s / Plounte’s (near Devil’s Gate)
  21. Split Rock
  22. (H) Three Crossings
  23. Ice Springs / Ice Slough
  24. Warm Springs
  25. (H) Rocky Ridge / Mary’s / Rocky Bridge / Foot of the Ridge
  26. Rock Creek / Strawberry
  27. Upper Sweet Water / Upper Sweetwater / South Pass / Gilbert’s / Burnt Ranch

****Up over the Continental Divide, across the broad saddle of the South Pass ****

  1. Pacific Springs
  2. Dry Sandy
  3. Little Sandy
  4. Big Sandy
  5. Big Timber / Big Bend / Simpson Hollow
  6. (H) Green River / Green River Crossing
  7. Michael Martin’s
  8. Ham’s Fork
  9. Rock Ridge
  10. Church Butte / Church Buttes
  11. (H) Millersville
  12. Fort Bridger / Camp Scott
  13. Muddy / Muddy Creek / Little Muddy
  14. Quaking Aspen / Quaking Asp / Spring
  15. Hanging Rock
  16. Bear River / Briggs

LEGEND:

(H) = Home Station  (some of these changed over time, as needed)

              Bold = Station Name on the original U.S. Senate Executive Document, 46th Congress, 3rd Session, I, No. 21 p.7-8 “Contract with Overland Mail Co” “Route 10773”

Italics = Station Name listed on the 2010 Map prepared by the National Pony Express Association and produced and printed by the National Parks Service to celebrate the Pony Express Sesquicentennial.