Oregon Trail Ruts

	Oregon Trail Ruts
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	Typical segment of the ruts
Nearest city	Guernsey, Wyoming
Coordinates	42°15′22″N 104°44′58″W / 42.25611°N 104.74944°W
Built	1841
NRHP reference No.	66000761
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966
Designated NHL	May 23, 1966

Oregon Trail Ruts State Historic Site is a preserved site of wagon ruts of the Oregon Trail on the North Platte River, about 0.5 miles south of Guernsey, Wyoming. The Oregon Trail here was winding up towards South Pass. Here, wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the trail into a sandstone ridge about two to six feet, during its heavy usage from 1841–1869. The half-mile stretch is "unsurpassed" and is the best-preserved set of Oregon Trail ruts anywhere along its former length.^[2]

The site is maintained as a state historic site, and was declared a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.^[1]^[2]

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