The Parting of the Ways is an historic site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, where the Oregon and California Trails fork from the original route to Fort Bridger to an alternative route, the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff, across the Little Colorado Desert. Many wagon trains parted company, some preferring the shorter cutoff route, which involved fifty waterless miles, to the longer but better-watered main route. The junction is marked by a small sandstone boulder about high, placed by L.C. Bishop and Paul Henderson and inscribed with a left-pointing arrow with "F. Bridger" and a right-pointing arrow with "S. Cut Off." The route was not established by Sublette, but rather a mountain man named Greenwood. The error in attribution arose when Joseph E. Ware's Emigrant's Guide to California (1849) listed the alternate path as the "Sublette Cutoff." References External links photographs at the National Park Service's NRHP database Parting of the Ways at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office Transportation on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming Geography of Sweetwater County, Wyoming Oregon Trail Road transportation on the National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in Sweetwater County, Wyoming