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Wyoming National Historic Landmarks

Ames Monument – 5/30/2013
Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers, it marked the highest point on the First Transcontinental Railroad

Expedition Island (Green River) – 6/1/2013
This marks the area where Major John Wesley Powell started an expedition down the Green River and Colorado River in 1869 and 1871

Fort Yellowstone (Yellowstone National Park) – 9/22/2018
An Army fort, established in 1891 at Mammoth Hot Springs to effectively manage Yellowstone National Park

Independence Rock – 5/31/2013
A large domed granite monolith, used as a waypoint by Emigrant Trail travelers who hoped to reach it by Independence Day (and it was apparently named on July 4, 1824)

Norris, Madison and Fishing Bridge Museums (Yellowstone National Park) – 9/22/2018
Norris Museum, one of a conglomeration of three separate "trailside museums" within Yellowstone National Park designed by architect Herbert Maier

Obsidian Cliff (Yellowstone National Park) – 9/22/2018
An important source of lithic materials for prehistoric peoples in what is now Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful Inn – 5/30/1995
Built in 1903, a prime example of the National Park Service Rustic resort architecture, with spectacular log and limb lobby and massive stone fireplace

Tom Sun Ranch – 5/31/2013
During the 1870s and 1880s the ranch, established by a French-Canadian frontiersman who later became a pioneer cattleman, was typical of many medium-sized ranching operations in cattle country

Union Pacific Railroad Depot (Cheyenne) – 5/26/2012
The historic depot was built in 1886 to 1887, made from blocks of sandstone quarried and transported from Ft. Collins

Wyoming State Capitol (Cheyenne) – 5/26/2012
This building built between 1886 and 1890 is Corinthian in style with a central dome and portico reminiscent of the U.S. Capitol, and is the state capitol and seat of government of Wyoming