Lander Cut-Off
The Lander Cut-Off left the Oregon Trail at Burnt
Ranch on the Sweetwater River near South Pass City,
WY. Frederick Lander surveyed the trail in 1857.
Tens of thousands of people passed over the trail
during its use. With the transcontinental railroad
being completed in 1869, emigrant travel over the
trail rapidly declined. The last wagons over the
trail were observed at Fort Piney WY. between 1920
and 1912. The Lander Cut-Off regioned the Oregon
Trail in Idaho northeast of Pocatello at Ross Fork
Creek.
