Parting of the Ways (Wyoming)

Parting of the Ways
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location in Wyoming Parting of the Ways (Wyoming) (the United States) Show map of WyomingShow map of the United StatesShow all
Nearest city	Farson, Wyoming
Coordinates	42°15′27″N 109°13′42″W / 42.25750°N 109.22833°W / 42.25750; -109.22833Coordinates: 42°15′27″N 109°13′42″W / 42.25750°N 109.22833°W / 42.25750; -109.22833
Built	1844
NRHP reference No.	76001962
Added to NRHP	January 11, 1976[1]

The Parting of the Ways is an historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, where the Oregon and California Trails fork from the original route to Fort Bridger to an alternative route, the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff, across the . Many wagon trains parted company, some preferring the shorter cutoff route, which involved fifty waterless miles, to the longer but better-watered main route.^[2]

The junction is marked by a small sandstone boulder about 15 inches (38 cm) high, placed by L.C. Bishop and Paul Henderson and inscribed with a left-pointing arrow with "F. Bridger" and aright-pointing arrow with "S. Cut Off." The route was not established by Sublette, but rather a mountain man named Greenwood. The error in attribution arose when Joseph E. Ware's Emigrant's Guide to California (1849) listed the alternate path as the "Sublette Cutoff."^[3]

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• Parting of the Ways photographs at the National Park Service's NRHP database
• Parting of the Ways at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

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