Elk Mountain, WY

Elk Mountain is a town in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The 2020 census counted 150 residents. The town takes its name from the mountain 7 miles to its southwest. Elk Mountain was a resting spot, the Elk Mountain Station, for early American pioneers in wagon trains heading west on the Overland Trail. Junior/Senior High School Archived December 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. A newcomer can read Elk Mountain through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Elk Mountain comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The Stage Station and the pioneers selected the site because of the good water year-round from the Medicine Bow River. Elk Mountain includes the Stage Station. Elk Mountain is home to Hotel.