A “Treasure Hunt” of the Weird and Wonderful at Pole Mountain, WY
Posted: August 8th, 2009 | Author: Roger Ludwig | Filed under: Wyoming | Tags: Bisbee Hill, bunker, Cheyenne, GPS, graves, Happy Jack Ski area, Laycock Spring, Merritt Hill, Pole Mountain, rifle pit, UTM Coordinates, Veduawoo | 12 Comments »
Veduawoo and Pole Mountain is Cheyenne’s back forty. We love to play up there, all with our different passions: fishing, four-wheeling, camping, hiking, climbing, hunting, skiing, sledding or just messing around on the rocks.
The rocks are monumental sculptures, painted with lichens in green, orange and black. The beavers have crafted jewels to reflect the sky. There are the twisty groves of aspens, forests of ramrod straight pines. It’s rare not to see deer and antelope.
If you’ve wandered around much, enjoying the wonderful, you have probably stumbled across some of the weird.
After all it was a "Target and Maneuver Range" for more than 50 years. The Army, Air Force, ROTC and National Guard guys all had some fun blowing things up and shooting things down. There once was a headquarters with 18 buildings.
And before that there was the town of Tie City. Telegraph poles were taken even earlier for the first transcontinental telegraph line. A highway man lived up on Brown’s Landing, robbing travelers. Feldspar mines were blasted from the rock. There was a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. The Happy Jack Ski area operated for many years and there was a lodge where the summit rest area is now.
Frankly, there is a lot of weird stuff to be found.
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