Four Corners is a small unincorporated community in Weston County, Wyoming, United States. It is located in northeastern Wyoming near the Bear Lodge Mountains, part of the Black Hills, at the intersection of U.S. Route 85 and Wyoming Highway 585. It is located north of Newcastle, southeast of Sundance, Wyoming, and southwest of Lead, South Dakota. Originally a stage station on the famous stagecoach road Cheyenne Black Hills Stage Route connecting Cheyenne and the Union Pacific Railroad with the gold fields of Deadwood, it is today the site of a small store, bed-and-breakfast ranches, vacation homes, and tourist camps. Camp Mallo is nearby.
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| Attractions |
- Bear Butte
- Black Elk Wilderness
- Black Hills Central Railroad
- Black Hills National Forest
- Black Elk Peak
- Black Hills Playhouse
- Chapel in the Hills
- Crazy Horse Memorial
- Custer State Park
- Devils Tower
- Dinosaur Park
- Flintstones Bedrock City
- Homestake Mine
- Jewel Cave National Monument
- Mammoth Site
- Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial
- Mystic Miner Ski Resort
- Needles
- Pactola Lake
- Reptile Gardens
- Rushmore Cave
- Sheridan Lake
- Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns
- Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
- Sylvan Lake
- Terry Peak ski area
- Wind Cave National Park with bison herd
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Roads
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- Norbeck Scenic Byway
- Iron Mountain Road
- Needles Highway
- Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway
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Trails
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- Mickelson Centennial Trail
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Cities
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Towns
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Unincorporated
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| History and people |
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- Cheyenne people
- Lakota people
- Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux Reservation
- Black Hills War, or Great Sioux War (1876)
- Black Elk
- Sitting Bull
- Crazy Horse
- Lone Horn
- Red Cloud
- Spotted Tail
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- Dakota Territory (1861–1889)
- Black Hills Expedition (1874)
- Black Hills Gold Rush (1874)
- Newton–Jenney Party (1875)
- Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route (1876-1887)
- Sidney-Black Hills Stage Road (1876-1887)
- Rapid City, Black Hills and Western Railroad (1893–1947)
- Seth Bullock and Martha Bullock
- General George Armstrong Custer
- Dora DuFran
- Wild Bill Hickok
- Calamity Jane
- Historian Doane Robinson
- Sol Star
- Al Swearengen
- Charlie Utter
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Ghost towns
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Modern
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- Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922-1957)
- Stratobowl (1934-1959)
- Black Hills flood (1972)
- Sculptors Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum
- Author Joseph Bottum
- Politician Francis H. Case
- Poet Charles Badger Clark
- Historian Watson Parker
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| Related |
- Mount Rushmore in popular culture
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