We had a long drive across southern Wyoming to look forward to on Saturday. I looked for somewhere interesting to stop to break the trip. This was the best I could do. Some guy in Wyoming decided he wanted a statue of Lincoln on Abe’s 150th birthday. The best he could do was to connect it somehow to the Lincoln Highway, the first highway across the country, which passed somewhere close to here. The statue is just Lincoln’s head on top of a big pillar. It looks decidedly weird.
There’s a Lincoln Highway monument next to it.
We wandered about the rest stop for perhaps 15 minutes, but there really wasn’t much to see.
Signs in the travel center alerted us to another attraction down the road a bit. It’s a limber pine, known as “Lone Tree,” that seems to be growing out of a rock. It was first recorded in the 1860’s when the Union Pacific Railroad diverted their tracks rather than destroy it.
We didn’t even bother pulling off the interstate, but I took a photo as we blasted by at 80 mph.
