Area Information
Big Piney is the oldest settlement in Sublette County.
History: The town was named by Dan B. Budd for the Piney Creeks which run through town. In 1879 Daniel B. Budd and his partner Hugh McKay brought a thousand head of cattle from Nevada hoping to ship them at Point of Rocks. But the winter caught up to them here in the Green River Valley.
The following year, Dan Budd moved his family here and that is how the settlement of this town began.
Big Piney was called “Ice Box of the Nation”: when it was officially made a weather station in 1930 and had the coldest year-round average temperature of any place in the nation.

It’s a curiosity, considering most Wyoming towns are few and far between the Big Piney and Marbleton would only be a mile apart on Highway 189.
The town of Marbleton, incorporated in 1914, was the dream of Charles P. Budd, the eldest son of Dan Budd who founded Big Piney. In the early days, there was a lot of drainage problems with the site on which Big Piney was built. So Charles Budd tried to move the town up to the bench to take advantage of the better building sites. Charles did establish Marbleton on the bench in late 1913, but it never replaced Big Piney. The annual car show and fly- in, complete with a free breakfast, is held in late June. The towns of Big Piney and Marbleton want to warmly welcome you to this year’s Pedigree® Stage Stop Race.
Resources: Wyoming Stage Stop Race

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