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Grand Encampment Museum
Grand Encampment Museum Review
The modern interpretive center at the Grand Encampment Museum holds exhibits on the history of the Grand Encampment copper district and logging and mining. A pioneer town of original buildings includes the Lake Creek stage station, the Big Creek tie-hack cabin, the Peryam homestead, the Slash Ridge fire tower, a blacksmith shop, a transportation barn, and a two-story outhouse. Among the other relics are three original towers from a 16-mi-long aerial tramway built in 1903 to transport copper ore from mines in the Sierra Madres. You can take guided tours, and there's also a research area. A living-history day, with music, costumes, and events, takes place the third weekend in July.
- Address: 807 Barnett Ave., Encampment, WY, 82325 | Map It
- Phone: 307/327-5308
- Cost: Donations accepted
- Hours: Memorial Day--Labor Day, Mon.--Sat. 10--5, Sun. 1--5; Sept., Sat. 10--5, Sun. 1--5
- Website: www.grandencampmentmuseum.org
- Location: Encampment
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