South Pass City State Historic Site
State Historic Site · South Pass City, Wyoming
A gold-rush town of 1867 in the high sagebrush near South Pass, where the emigrant trails crossed the Continental Divide, preserved by the state with dozens of original log and frame buildings, many furnished. Its place in national history is far larger than the town: its legislator William Bright introduced the 1869 act that made Wyoming Territory the first government in the United States to give women the vote, and resident Esther Morris became the first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in 1870. It is open in summer, at about 7,800 feet. It sits at about 7,800 feet, a few miles off WY 28 on a gravel road, and the state now owns the nearby Carissa Mine, where the town began.
125 South Pass Main, South Pass City, Wyoming, 82520, United States
Open about mid-May to September; buildings closed in winter. Check wyoparks.wyo.gov.
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