Saratoga National Fish Hatchery

The Saratoga National Fish Hatchery is located in Southern Wyoming, four miles northeast of the town of Saratoga, and 35 miles southeast of Rawlins. The Hatchery was established in 1914 and has primarily served as an egg producing facility for most of its years of operation. The Hatchery provides four million Lewis Lake lake trout eggs to the Great Lakes restoration effort, and 3.5 million Plymouth Rock brown trout eggs to other Federal, state and tribal programs. The Hatchery maintains the back-up broodstock for the McConaughy rainbow trout. They are also involved in rearing and breeding the endangered Wyoming toad for reintroduction into the wild.