Reenactment leaves a trail.
The Mormon Trail Wagon Train, understandably, has struggled at times with the logistics of setting up a camp for thousands of people every day. According to some, that struggle became most evident Tuesday night when the train camped at Independence Rock State Park in southwest Natrona County. Problems associated with the train at Independence Rock led to a meeting between wagon train management and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to solve those problems and help the train's operations to run more smoothly. Pat Thompson of the Wyoming Parks and Historic Sites Division, who supervises Independence Rock and Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park in Casper, said that when the wagon train and its spectators arrived at the rock, the scene rapidly turned into chaos. He said about 500 more people than expected arrived at the site Tuesday afternoon, and they paid little attention to the rules agreed upon by Thompson, the BLM and wagon train camp officials.