Old Brooks Place: I 80 County Road 402 - Road Surface
Few places in Wyoming have a history as closely tied to overland travel across the high plains as Old Brooks Place. This small locality lies beside Interstate 80 near Elk Mountain, a prominent summit at the eastern edge of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Its surroundings are open rangeland, marked by sagebrush, short grasses and long distances between settlements—part of the broad landscape of southern Wyoming. The modern highway follows a wider east–west corridor long associated with transcontinental movement; the Union Pacific Railroad also crosses southern Wyoming. Old Brooks Place is less a destination than a useful reference point on one of the state’s principal cross-country routes, between the Laramie area and Rawlins.
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