Medicine Bow

Understand

History The settlement, which is named after the Medicine Bow River, had its first post office in 1869. It became notable at the turn of the century when, in the late 1890s, a dinosaur skeleton was discovered in the area. The local Virginian Hotel, built in 1911, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The population peaked at the 1980 census, when it reached almost 1,000, before declining to 261 as of the 2018 estimate. As a stop on the transcontinental railroad, it was featured in the famous novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Unfortunately, as a result of the decline in rail transport in the postwar period, there are no longer any passenger trains serving Wyoming, and the railway line through the town is used exclusively by freight trains.

See

1 Medicine Bow Museum, 405 Lincoln Hwy (in the former Medicine Bow railway station), ☏ +1 307 379-2383, [email protected].

Sleep

1 The Historic Virginian Hotel, 404 Lincoln Hwy, ☏ +1 307 379-2377, [email protected]. $35-$100.