Tour Guide, Laramie and Albany County, Wyoming: The Old Lincoln Highway, A Remarkable Ambition

From introduction: "This tour will take you back in time via the old Lincoln Highway – America’s first coast-to-coast highway, established in 1913. Today much of the original grade of this celebrated highway has been paved or surfaced with gravel, but the open spaces of its route through the Laramie Basin remain virtually unchanged from the dawn of history. Crossing this endless prairie from ancient times to the present has always presented both unique challenges and unexpected rewards to the traveler. Only the mode of transportation has changed. When the Lincoln Highway opened in 1913, no structured highway maintenance system existed, so each county had to take care of its own section with the help of volunteers. Motorists were mostly on their own to find their way along a route that could quickly vanish under heavy snow, thick mud or spring floods. There was no Wyoming Highway Patrol, no speed limit, and not even a requirement for drivers to be licensed (that didn’t come until 1947). In spite of these challenges – or maybe because of them – the romance of the historic Lincoln Highway lives on." Project funding was provided in part by a 2008 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Albany County Historic Preservation Board (project number WY-08-34) administered by the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 56-08-21755) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Albany County, Wyoming is a Certified Local Government.

Tour Guide, Laramie and Albany County, Wyoming: The Old Lincoln Highway, A Remarkable Ambition

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