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Route 728 Page 746 Denver-Pueblo Section
108.6 3.1 Ft. Steele, end of road, store on left. Turn right along RR.
109.6 1.0 Fork, sign in center; bear left. Pass RR section houses on
124.1
left 113.2. Cross RR 123.6—now on Cedar St.
14.5 RAWLINS, Cedar & 5th Sts.
HOTELS— The Ferris Hotel, 4th & Buffalo Sts.
GARAGES— Rawlins Motor Co., 506 Buffalo St.
Route 728—Rawlins to Rock Springs, Wyo.—113.8 m.
Reverse Route 710.
Via Wamsutter and Point of Rocks.
Natural prairie road with long stretches of graded dirt, several miles of which are
over an old railroad grade, very rough and with numerous bad culverts requiring
caution. The road is only fair at its best and rather slow, tho there are several fast
good stretches. It is a section of the Lincoln highway and extends thru a sparsely
settled sage-brush country.
Accommodations and supplies are to be had only at Wamsutter, with emergency
supplies at a store in Point of Rock. The water is, at both Point of Rock and Wam-
sutter, slightly alkali, but a fine spring is passed twenty miles beyond
Rawlins, the last really good and enjoyable drinking water before Rock
Total Between
Mileage Points Springs is reached. The spring is about 200 yards north of the road.
0.0 0.0 RAWLINS, 5th & Cedar Sts. Go north on 5th St. three blocks.
0.2 0.2 Spruce St., sign on right; turn left. Avoid left-hand diag-
onal road 2.6.
12.2 12.0 Fork, sign in center; bear right. Cross small wooden bridge
over gully 17.6.
Good spring on right 200 yards 21.0.
29.7 17.5 Fork, sign in center; keep left. Thru irregular 4-corners
33.8, flag sta. on left.
38.5 8.8 Fork; bear right, leaving old RR grade. Avoid left-hand
road 41.6.
41.9 3.4 Wamsutter. Keep ahead.
HOTELS—Wamsutter Hotel, Opp. Depot So. of RR.
42.0 0.1 Fork; bear right, passing well on left.
Fill water bag and radiator here as this is the last good water for
many miles.
Avoid left-hand road 42.1.
42.2 0.2 Left-hand road; turn left. Avoid left-hand diagonal road
42.3, disregarding signs. Pass Red Desert Sta. on left 50.5
and Tipton Sta. on left 57.9.
59.0 16.8 Fork, sign in center; bear right.
61.5 2.5 Fork, signs in center; bear right. Thru diagonal 4-corners
65.0. Thru dry creek bed 85.0. Thru Blaze-On, a coal mining
settlement 86.2.
86.4 24.9 Fork, sign in center; keep left. Cross RR 86.7.
86.8 0.4 Fork; bear left.
87.3 0.5 Point of Rocks, 4-corners. Turn left across RR and imme-
diately right with road.
87.5 0.2 Fork, just beyond small wooden bridge; bear right.
94.8 7.3 Left-hand road, just beyond RR, Thayer Jet. Sta. on right;
turn left.
95.7 0.9 End of road; turn left across RR and immediately right along
same.
Right before crossing RR leads to Superior.
96.7 1.0 Fork; bear right across RR with travel. Pass section houses
on left 98.9.
100.9 4.2 Fork, sign in center; bear right.
107.3 6.4 Fork; bear right with travel. Cross RR 107.8.
108.1 0.8 End of road; bear left.
110.0 1.9 Fork; keep left. Turn left with road 110.8. Use caution
on narrow road along cut 110.9. Cross RRs 111.7. Bear left
across bridge 112.2. Cross narrow gauge RR 112.3.
112.7 2.7 4-corners; turn left one block.
112.8 0.1 Irregular 4-corners, sign on right; bear right. Bear left with
travel 113.1.
113.2 0.4 Bridger Ave., playground on right; turn right.
113.4 0.2 Irregular 4-corners, just before RR; turn sharp left onto C