The location was used as a ford by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans in the West.

The first Europeans to use the site were members of the William Henry Ashley fur-trading expedition of 1825, followed by John C. Frémont in 1843.

By the time the Overland Stage Line was established in 1861, the crossing had been used by emigrants for several years.

When the Union Pacific Railway laid tracks through the region in 1868, the crossing fell out of use.

[1] The site is marked by a stone monument on a small parcel of land deeded to the State of Wyoming in 1933.