Returning to the United States via Okinawa and Guam, "Wheatland" arrived in Seattle, Washington, on 13 November. Later that month, she visited San Francisco for two weeks before embarking upon a voyage to the Marianas on 13 December. She arrived at Guam on 28 December and later visited Saipan whence she departed the Marianas on 22 January 1946. Steaming via the Panama Canal, the ship arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, on 21 February. She made one more voyage in her naval career — a round trip to New York and back to Norfolk between 28 February and 5 March — before beginning inactivation preparations at Norfolk.