Today, five of the town’s eight structures remain. A two-story barn sits on the north side that was used to shelter relay horses for the Pony Express. The Pacific Springs store stands intact without the false front, and now serves as a storage house for a nearby ranch.

This area, which was once a celebration spot on the Oregon Trail, marked the first camping spot for emigrants after crossing South Pass, which is seventy-four hundred feet high. Travelers typically celebrated the crossing and then woke up to three miles of mud.

By 1918, the town consisted of only a post office named Pacific. As you drive through Pacific Springs, you can see railroad tracks that pass on the edge of town. The tracks are used by U.S. Steel Corporation, and trains on this line haul iron ore from Atlantic City to the Union Pacific line.