The Tree Rock in Wyoming, a famous “roadside” attraction since the days of the first railroads out West. When the Union Pacific laid its tracks the surveyors came across this
struggling small tree growing out of a solid granite boulder, Tree looks to be
growing from a depression between rocks. They called it “Tree Rock” and the
name remained the same. It is said that the tracks were once diverted to pass
by Tree Rock. In 1901, the railroad line moved south, but a wagon road
remained, used as a wagon trail, then as the Lincoln Highway. It is still called “Tree Rock” and it’s the tourist spot and national treasure in Lincoln Highway. There is a Fence surrounded in the Tree in the rock. There is a little parking area also for the travelers to stop by and take pictures. Tree in the Rock is a Peculiar Tree located in the south-eastern Wyoming, lies on a stretch of 1-80 Between Cheyenne and Laramie, in 1902, the railroad was relocated so as to avoid the steep grade at Sherman Hill. Tree in the Rock is a small, twisted, limber pine tree. “Limber Pine tree can live as long as 2000 years. Limber
Pine trees are common to the area.
Address:
Interstate 80, Buford, WY
Directions:
Midway between Laramie and Cheyenne, in a wayside rest in the median of I-80 at
mile marker 333.