Places to Explore In Cheyenne, Laramie, and Southern Wyoming

Baggs

Settled by cattle and sheep ranchers, the Little Snake River valley—and its largest community, Baggs—is still ranch country. Two emigrant trails passed nearby: the south...

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Centennial

Snuggled up against the mountains of the Snowy Range, Centennial lies at the head of the glacial Centennial Valley. As the community closest to the...

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Cheyenne

Cheyenne is Wyoming’s largest city, but at roughly 65,000 people it is not a place where you’ll have to fight traffic or wait in lines—except...

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• 11 Things To Do

Encampment

This is the gateway community to the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, accessed at Battle Pass, 15 miles to the west on Highway 70. Hikers...

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Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

The Flaming Gorge Reservoir of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is formed by Green River water held back by Flaming Gorge Dam. Here you...

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Fort Bridger State Historic Site

Started in 1843 as a trading post by mountain man Jim Bridger and his partner Louis Vasquez, Fort Bridger was under the control of Mormons...

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Fort Laramie National Historic Site

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Green River

A town of about 13,000, Green River attracts those who want to explore the waterways of the Green River drainage in the nearby Flaming Gorge...

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Kemmerer

This small city serves as a gateway to Fossil Butte National Monument. Probably the most important person in Kemmerer’s history was James Cash Penney, who...

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Laramie

At just over 30,000 people, Laramie is not a big city, but it is probably Wyoming's coolest. Home to the University of Wyoming, it has...

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• 5 Hotels
• 20 Things To Do

Medicine Bow

When novelist Owen Wister (1860–1938) first visited Medicine Bow—the town he would immortalize in his 1902 classic Western tale The Virginian—he noted that the community...

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Rawlins

The northern gateway to the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest, Rawlins stands at the junction of U.S. 287 and I–80. Started as one of the Union...

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Rock Springs

Thousands of acres of public land attract people to this area to see wild horses, hike, and explore 19th-century emigrant trails. Coal mining has always...

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• 5 Things To Do

Saratoga

Tucked away in a valley formed by the Snowy Range and Sierra Madre Mountains, Saratoga is a rarely visited treasure. Fine shopping and dining happily...

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• 2 Things To Do