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Parting of the Ways
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location in WyomingShow map of WyomingParting of the Ways (Wyoming) (the United States)Show map of the United States
Nearest city	Farson, Wyoming
Coordinates	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

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 Little Colorado Desert. Many wagon trains parted company, some preferring the shorter cutoff route, which involved fifty waterless miles, to the longer but better-watered main route.

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 a right-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."

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "Parting of the Ways". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 24, 2008.
3. Benton, J. Homer (July 19, 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Parting-of-the-Ways (Oregon Trail Site)". National Park Service. Retrieved June 22, 2009.

External links

• Parting of the Ways photographs at the National Park Service's NRHP database
• (WYOHistory.Org) by Wyoming Historical Society
• Parting of the Ways at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Sweetwater County, Wyoming
National Historic Landmark	Expedition Island
Historic districts	Downtown Rock Springs Historic District Green River Downtown Historic District Lucerne Valley Archaeological District Wardell Court Historic Residential District
Historic properties	Araphoe and Lost Creek Site Bairoil Town Hall Dean Decker Site Dug Springs Station Site Eden-Farson Site Eldon-Wall Terrace Site ETD Bridge over Green River ETR Big Island Bridge Finley Site First National Bank Building, Rock Springs Granger Station Gras House Laclede Station Ruin Natural Corrals Archeological Site Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church Parting of the Ways Point of Rocks Stage Station Red Rock Reliance School and Gymnasium Reliance Tipple Rock Springs City Hall Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No. 624 Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory Slovenski Dom South Superior Union Hall Elinore Pruitt Stewart Homestead Sweetwater Brewery Taliaferro House Tolar Petroglyph Site United States Post Office–Green River
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Sweetwater County, Wyoming and List of National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming

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