Lincoln Highway — Sunset Cabins

Established in 1913 as the nation's first coast-to-coast automobile route, the Lincoln Highway followed existing roads marked by a distinctive logo and, in some places, concrete posts with a Lincoln Head Medallion. In dozens of towns along the route, tourist camps provided roadside lodging and camping facilities for travelers. By 1920, the City of Evanston operated a campground at this location where tourists could stay overnight for fifty cents per vehicle. In 1927, the city added six small cabins with adjoining carports, and in 1928 a company from Rawlins that operated a chain of tourist camps in Wyoming leased the campground and renamed it the Sunset Camp. The original cabins were later replaced with mission-style cabins. The Lincoln Highway was superseded in the late 1920s by U.S. Highway 30 and eventually by Interstate 80, and the Sunset Cabins remain a reminder of a more leisurely pace of travel in the early 20th century and a significant part of national and local history.

Evanston, Wyoming · United States