PINEDALE — On Oct. 15, 1925, the front page of the Big Piney Examiner featured a headline that read, “A hospital is our most essential need.”

One hundred years later, on August 4, 2025, Sublette County reached that historic milestone, opening the doors to its first Critical Access Hospital. Sublette is the last county in Wyoming to bring a hospital to fruition, saving residents an 80-mile one-way road trip through the Hoback Canyon to St. John’s Hospital in Jackson.

The $73.8 million project was funded through federal grants, funds from Sublette County and Pinedale governments, local mill levies, and $5.6 million in private donations raised by the Sublette County Health Foundation.

“It is tremendously exciting,” said Sublette County Hospital District public relations director Kari DeWit

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