After going through Cheyenne Pass, the emigrants were soon on the Laramie Plains, where this trail connected and became a part of the Overland Stage Route from the south.
Fort Sanders was a wooden fort constructed in 1866 on the Laramie Plains in southern Wyoming, near the city of Laramie.
In the Laramie Plains it is joined by the Little Laramie River.
The Laramie River then continues north through the Laramie Plains and through Wheatland Reservoir.
The Laramie Plains is an arid highland (approximately elevation 8000 ft) in south central Wyoming in the United States.
He apparently followed local usage and labeled the plains surrounded by mountains in southeast Wyoming "Laramie Plains."
In 1843 he camped on Laramie Plains, at the base of Elk Mountain.
Sources state that the Laramie Plains "fell outside what would be considered the home territories of the tribes that used it."
Pressure by white immigrants and shifting buffalo herds forced the Indian tribes to the Laramie Plains where they came into conflict with travelers on the Overland.
From Laporte, the wagon road was built north past present-day Virginia Dale Stage Station to the Laramie Plains in southeastern Wyoming.