Cloud Peak Skyway
Fort McKinney, WY

General George Crook founded this post in 1876 as a supply depot, naming it Cantonment Reno. In 1877, it was redesignated Fort McKinney. Five years General Philip Sheridan made it a permanent post in anticipation of continuing wars with the Indians, and several Cavalry troops were moved in. Sheridan's Indian battle never materialized, but considerable friction among cattlemen, rustlers, and farmers in 1892 and 1893 had to be settled by the Army. The post was transferred to the State of Wyoming and the Wyoming Soldiers and Sailors Home was moved there in l903. From Buffalo, you will take US 16 west for three miles to the fort.