The Parkway Motel
Wheatland,
Wyoming
The Parkway
Motel
1257 South St.
Wheatland, WY 82201 (USA)
307-322-3080
Newly Redecorated, cozy, and 3 blocks from the noisy freeway.
Wheatland, Wyoming 82201
Phone 307-322-3433 (8-5) MST
Email for Apartments for rent apart from the Motel.
History
In 1911, Platte County was created from a portion of Laramie County, which joins it to the
south. Platte County takes its name from the North Platte River.
Wheatland, the county seat and largest town in Platte County, provides easy access to scenic and recreational areas. Set amid farms and ranches that are irrigated by the largest privately owned irrigation system in the Country, the town has a nine-hole public golf course, city parks with a free camping area, a swimming pool and tennis courts, Laramie Peak Museum, library, bowling alley, movie theater and fairgrounds. Before a modern water system was developed in Wheatland, water was brought to each home by ditches which ran down each street from Canal No. 2 to irrigate lawns and gardens and to furnish water for homes. Wheatland still has many remains of the In-town irrigation system that made all the old trees in Wheatland. Wheatland was incorporated in 1905, and because the county seat of Platte County in 1911.
During the early 19th Century, the first Europeans to move into the area were hunters, trappers and traders who became known as "Mountain Men." With the precipitous decline of the fur trade, the area's few settlers turned to ranching and supplying wagon trains crossing the area on the Oregon Trail, and later the Bozeman and Overland trails, which cut through the South Pass on their way west. Forts Laramie and Bridger became important stops on the pioneer trail to the West Coast. Wyoming was aquired as part of the Louisiana Purchace of 1803.
Be a Part of the Old West.
