Pine Bluffs Wyoming Tourism

Out on the Wyoming prairie is where you’ll find the small town of Pine Bluffs, the first Wyoming community you reach when traveling west on I-80. The American Indians used the flat-topped pine covered bluffs as ideal camp sites. Here they could see the distant mountains to the west and the plains to the east.

Rich in history and charm, Pine Bluffs is the home of the University of Wyoming’s Historic Archaeological Dig, where researchers have painstakingly extracted American Indian and prehistoric artifacts dating back 8,000 years. Looking back at history is easy in Pine Bluffs when you visit the museum and the adjacent one room school house, the frontier church and a caboose from the Union Pacific Railroad days back in about 1884 when Pine Bluffs was the largest cattle shipping point on the railroad. The Texas Trail Monument marks the path where one of the most spectacular movements of all time took place. Over 600,000 cattle in the year 1871 took the long trail from Texas.

Pine Bluffs is truly a historic city on the plains. With its close proximity to Cheyenne and Denver, it is an ideal “pit stop” on your way to the scenic Rocky Mountains or the eastern plains. Visit Pine Bluffs and experience the small town flavor of the west.

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