Bill and Karen Pacheco is planning a fun run to Lingle, WY to include a corn maze, and seeing the Oregon Trail’s register cliffs & Wagon Ruts (http://www.wyomingheritage.org/registerCliff.html). With Lunch in Wheatland, WY. More info to come. Meet at Travel America (TA East of Cheyenne) on I-80 @ 9:00 a.m.
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More info below:
9:00 am Meet at TA Truck Stop, I-80, Exit #: 377
41° 09.522’N 104° 31.129’W
Depart TA East on US 30 to Hwy 213 (towards Burns)
41° 09.540N’ 104° 20.971’W
North on Hwy 213 to Hwy 85
41° 26.500’N 104° 20.772’W
Left on Hwy 152 (towards Yoder) 41° 54.873’N 104° 16.003’W
Left on Hwy 77 (towards Veteran) 42° 00.108’N 104° 22.882’W
Left on Hwy 156 (towards Lingle) 42° 06.143’N 104° 21.108’W
Ellis Harvest Home Corn Maze (http://www.ellisharvesthome.com/corn-maze)
Cost: $10 per person. Group of 10 or more = $8 but must pay as one group. Recommend bringing cash for easy payment.
Dirt Road to farm
42° 08.905’N 104° 22.580’W
Just over Platte River, take left onto dirt road towards Oregon Trail Ruts 42° 16.184’N 104° 45.204’W
Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site (http://go.usa.gov/v5zx) – Free
The Oregon Trail was one of the primary routes used by emigrants heading westward across the American continent in the 1840s. Although many remnants of the trail can be seen in Wyoming, the Oregon Trail tracks here are notable because they were cut into solid rock. A short trail leads uphill to four-foot deep gouges cut by the wheels of thousands of wagons. This site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.
42° 15.423’N 104° 44.951’W
Register Cliff (http://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/register-cliff) – Free
A short drive from the trail ruts back through Guernsey takes visitors to Register Cliff, which rises one hundred feet above the North Platte River valley. Following a day’s journey from Fort Laramie, emigrants spent the night at Register Cliff and inscribed their names into the rock face. The earliest signatures date to the late 1820s when trappers and fur traders passed through the area, but most of the names visible today were carved during the 1840s and 1850s when the Oregon Trail was at its height. Today, visitors can walk along the cliff base to view the signatures up close.
42° 14.850’N 104° 42.704’W
Depart Register Cliff towards Grayrocks Reservoir 42° 09.070’N 104° 40.428’W
Laramie Basin Power Plant (watch for deer next to fence line of power plant)
42° 6.677’N 104° 52.127’W
Arrive Wheatland (Lunch at Big A Restaurant)
42° 3.075’N 104° 57.715’W
Ride ends. Participants left to their own accord.
I-25: 42° 2.791’N 104° 57.992’W