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Pine Bluffs

Out on the Wyoming prairie is where you’ll find the small town of Pine Bluffs, the first Wyoming community you reach when traveling west on I-80. The American Indians used the flat-topped pine covered bluffs as ideal camp sites. Here they could see the distant mountains to the west and the plains to the east.

Rich in history and charm, Pine Bluffs is the home of the University of Wyoming’s Historic Archaeological Dig, where researchers have painstakingly extracted American Indian and prehistoric artifacts dating back 8,000 years.