Gas Plant Camp, Midwest's Major Suburb

How to find it: Retrace your route north; Gas Plant Camp is located about halfway between Old Lavoye and present-day midwewt on the east side of the road. (N-1/2 Section 36, T40N-R79W)

Oil Derek

About the site: Gas Plant Camp was the largest camp after Midwest in the Salt Creek Oil Field, built to house the workers who operated the main gas plant (located between the Camp and Midwest). Many original residences are still occupied. Although several have been remodeled and some trailers moved in, Gas Plant Camp still gives the public a good idea of how the camps looked during the height of the oil boom in Salt Creek.

North Map · South Map

Stop 1 A Symbol of Scandal: Teapot Rock · Stop 2 Not a Trace: Teapot Townsite · Stop 3 New Lavoye: The Palm Beach of Wyoming · Stop 4 Teapot Dome (Naval Petroleum Reserve): Watergate of the 1920s · Stop 5 Pumping Station/Storage Tank Facility · Stop 6 Old Lavoye: Picked Up and Moved · Stop 7 The North-South Railroad: Remnants of a Grand Scheme · Stop 8 Gas Plant Camp, Midwest's Major Suburb · Stop 9 Salt Creek Oil Field Interpretive Sign and Oil Derrick · Stop 10 Canadian Camp · Stop 11 Midwest Cemetery · Stop 12 Lewis Camp (Camp No. 3) · Stop 13 Jackass (IBA) Spring · Stop 14 The First Well: Shannon Pool Oil Field; Shannon Camp · Stop 15 A Monument to Engineering: The Midwest Electric Plant · Stop 16 Midwest: Where "Democracy and Fairness Predominates"

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