Grand Encampment Museum, Inc.

Grand Encampment Museum, Inc. "The Grand Encampment Museum preserves and interprets the history of the upper North Platte Valley.
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It provides the public with access to historical sources and experiences, as well as a place for research and to educate all generations."

CJ Box will be here at the GEM of Southern Wyoming tomorrow, 3-5!!!Also, the museum's summer hours begin tomorrow. Tues...
05/22/2026

CJ Box will be here at the GEM of Southern Wyoming tomorrow, 3-5!!!
Also, the museum's summer hours begin tomorrow. Tuesday-Saturday, 9-5 and Sunday, noon-4. We have a lot going on this summer!

We had a great day at the GEM on Tuesday celebrating Nancy Anderson's Humestone Award and acknowledging her long dedicat...
05/21/2026

We had a great day at the GEM on Tuesday celebrating Nancy Anderson's Humestone Award and acknowledging her long dedication to preserving history and in particular, the history of Carbon County.

Candy Moulton speaks to the Encampment School's 2nd and 3rd grades about the GEM's latest film, Land of Abundance. Late...
05/20/2026

Candy Moulton speaks to the Encampment School's 2nd and 3rd grades about the GEM's latest film, Land of Abundance. Later, the 2nd and 3rd graders run the three legged race at the museum.

Come to the GEM for a celebration next week to honor Nancy Anderson!
05/11/2026

Come to the GEM for a celebration next week to honor Nancy Anderson!

Phil Flemming wasn't just an Encampment resident hauling gravel. He was a long-time legend at Winter Park Ski Area serv...
05/06/2026

Phil Flemming wasn't just an Encampment resident hauling gravel. He was a long-time legend at Winter Park Ski Area serving on the ski patrol, ski instructor, and more. These two photos are of Phil working on the ski patrol in the 1960s grooming the slopes at Winter Park with the Bradley Packer, the world's first ski slope grooming machine, invented at Winter Park around 1950. A pilot of the Packer could hit speed in excess of 80mph while guiding the 700lb machine.

It looks like construction of the Saratoga and Encampment Railroad is still going on in this Photograph.
04/28/2026

It looks like construction of the Saratoga and Encampment Railroad is still going on in this Photograph.

One photo shows Lora Webb Nichols with George Peryam and Mildred McIntosh in Slater, Colorado. The other two photos sho...
04/23/2026

One photo shows Lora Webb Nichols with George Peryam and Mildred McIntosh in Slater, Colorado. The other two photos show Keystone, Wyoming. All photos were taken in September, 1949.

There is a lot going on at the GEM this summer!
04/14/2026

There is a lot going on at the GEM this summer!

Most people recognize this image taken from the flag raising phot taken by Joe Rosenthal in World War II. The painting ...
04/13/2026

Most people recognize this image taken from the flag raising phot taken by Joe Rosenthal in World War II. The painting was part of the 7th War Bond Drive in 1945 and was done by Cecil Calvert Beall. Beall was born in Saratoga, Wyoming in 1892.
The image is the property of the U.S. Treasury Department.

Multiple teams of mules hauling spools of cable for building the aerial tramway passing through Grand Encampment.
04/07/2026

Multiple teams of mules hauling spools of cable for building the aerial tramway passing through Grand Encampment.

Encampment residents having a picnic in Rawlins on the day of the circus in 1925.
04/02/2026

Encampment residents having a picnic in Rawlins on the day of the circus in 1925.

Address

807 Barnett Avenue
Encampment, WY
82325

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

(307) 327-5308

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