General area maybe six miles from Elk Creek

The exact identity and location of this site remains unknown. Mattes and Henderson place the station in Phelps County, about six miles southwest of Elm Creek. Mattes later lists the site as six miles southeast of Elm Creek.

Sources give the site several different names, including Garden, Shakespear's, Sydenham's Ranche, Biddleman's Ranch, and Platte Stage Station.  The 1861 Overland Mail Company contract listed the station as Garden. Franzwa places Garden station between Craig/Shakespear and Seventeen Mile Stations but notes that the Garden and Craig Stations could be the same.  Nevertheless, in 1865, the station was evidently destroyed by fire.  http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/poex/hrs/hrs5a.htm#28