S side of the North Platte River, 0.5 mi. S of Guernsey, Guernsey, Wyoming. County/parish: Platte.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000761.
1 contributing site.
Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site is a preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, about 0.5 miles south of Guernsey, Wyoming. The Oregon Trail here was winding up towards South Pass. Here, wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the trail into a sandstone ridge about two to six feet, during its heavy usage from 1841 to 1869. The half-mile stretch is "unsurpassed" and is the best-preserved set of Oregon Trail ruts anywhere along its former length.
The site is maintained as a state historic site, and was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73730089