Chugwater Wyoming Tourism

At first glance, Chugwater looks like any other small town, but there’s something distinctly different about it. Legend tells of an old Indian chief whose son, known as “The Dreamer”, just couldn’t see fit to hunt buffalo the hard way.

Lazy though he was, the chief’s son was also somewhat enterprising and was said to have thought up the idea of stampeding the unsuspecting buffalo over chalk cliffs that break abruptly away. The Dreamer’s trap became known as “water at the place where the buffalo chug.” The white settlers later adopted the Indian name “Chugwater.” Over the years, it became a station of the Cheyenne - Deadwood stage route, the home of the huge Swan Land and Cattle Company as well as stomping grounds of the notorious Tom Horn.

Chugwater offers a library, senior center, three churches, motel, two RV parks, a monthly newspaper, and a post office.

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