Fort Washakie, WY

Fort Washakie is a community on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Fremont County, Wyoming, in the foothills of the Wind River Range. The place grew around a U.S. military post established in 1869 as Camp Brown and renamed Fort Washakie in 1878. Today it is the headquarters of the Eastern Shoshone tribal government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Wind River Agency, making it a center of governance for the reservation.

The older fort grounds and cemetery remain part of the local map, including the grave of Chief Washakie. U.S. Route 287 runs through the community, with the Continental Divide and Rocky Mountain landscape rising nearby. Fremont County School District 21 serves local students, while the reservation’s tribal institutions shape the town’s daily rhythm. The surrounding roads connect ranch country, agency offices, schools, and reservation neighborhoods. The setting remains high-country and open. Fort Washakie is a Wyoming community where Eastern Shoshone government, a former military post, Wind River geography, and living reservation history meet.