Parting of the Ways (Wyoming)

For the Doctor Who episode, see The Parting of the Ways.

Parting of the Ways
Location in Wyoming
Parting of the Ways (Wyoming) (the United States)
Nearest cityFarson, Wyoming
Coordinates42°15′27″N 109°13′42″W / 42.25750°N 109.22833°W / 42.25750; -109.22833
Built1844 (1844)
NRHP reference No.76001962
Added to NRHPJanuary 11, 1976

The Parting of the Ways is a 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."

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