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Take the RV and hit the open road in Wyoming knowing you can stop for the night and need not worry about a place to sleep. The shortest of Wyoming’s Interstate Highways, I-90, cuts across the northeast corner of the state from Sundance to Sheridan and Ranchester. This highway rolls over the western edge of the Black Hills, passes near Sundance Mountain and then traverses the northern edge of the Powder River Basin before flanking the east face of the Bighorn Mountains.



You will find campgrounds in all of the communities.

Those of particular appeal include
Devils Tower KOA, just outside the boundaries of the nation’s first national monument west of Hulett and Keyhole State Park

Culture and Commerce: After you've seen the national monument, get a little monument of your own at Bears & Company of Devils Tower. Their wooden sculpture, made with a chainsaw, will amaze and delight you.  

Buffalo and Sheridan have multiple RV parks and you will find that the area is a good place to park for a few days to explore Indian war sites, museums and enjoy the art at the Bradford Brinton Memorial & Museum west of Sheridan. You can hike or fish in the nearby Bighorn National Forest.

Total length of I-90 in Wyoming: 208 miles

From Buffalo turn your rig south on I-25. You’ll have a chance to visit Kaycee with its Hoofprints to the Past Museum before continuing on to Casper, where several campgrounds/RV parks offer full services. You can explore the National Historic Trail Interpretives Center, Fort Caspar (which has an adjacent RV Park), the Nicolaysen Art Museum, Werner Wildlife Museum, and nearby Casper Mountain.
 
If you're lucky enough to be near Casper Mountain at the beginning of August, be sure to schedule in time for the Beartrap Summer Festival, featuring the best of blues and bluegrass artists.

Continuing south on I-25, visit Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park just east of CasperFort Fetterman is near
Douglas, and Glendo State Park is near Glendo with RV parks in Glenrock, Douglas and Wheatland to provide you with a “home base.”

Culture and Commerce: If you're in southeast Wyoming on Father's Day weekend, be sure to stop at the Chugwater Chili Cook-Off for a bite to eat and some great local entertainment. If you miss the festival, stop in and sample the chili and buy a mix to make your own.

Total length of I-25 in Wyoming: 299 miles

I-80 stretches across the southern portion of the state, between Pine Bluffs and Evanston, and parallels the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad was the foundation of many communities and ultimately the Wyoming Territory as it pushed west in the late 1860s. You will find railroad history all along the route.
 
There are many diversions along I-80, including an archaeological site at Pine Bluffs, cowboy and Western heritage museums in
Cheyenne, the Frontier and Territorial prisons in Laramie and Rawlins, and plenty of recreational opportunities all along the route.

Culture and Commerce: Make your journey on the open road sweeter with some goodies from PerrBear Chocolates in Cheyenne. A third generation candy maker, Lori and her husband Perry, provide fresh brittle and chocolates from family recipes.

Detour from the interstate between Cheyenne and Laramie to visit
Curt Gowdy State Park or Vedauwoo. Follow the route of the Overland and Cherokee Trails and Cherokee Trails between Laramie and Rawlins. Cross the Great Divide Basin and Red Desert from Rawlins to Rock Springs and enjoy the Green River at a white water park or Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area near Green River.

Step back into the era of the mountain man and military at Fort Bridger. If you are in the area during the first weekend of September, plan to attend the Fort Bridger Rendezvous where thousands of attendees reenact on of the first gatherings of mountain men, traders, soldiers and pioneers.

There are RV parks in each of these communities ranging from one on a buffalo ranch at Cheyenne to a pastoral setting east of Fort Bridger
at Lyman.

Total length of I-80 in Wyoming: 402 miles

Realize that although some RV parks are open year around, many in Wyoming are seasonal operations open from late spring through late fall. 

 

 

  Buffalo
  Casper
  Cheyenne
  Chugwater
  Devils Tower
  Douglas
  Evanston
  Fort Bridger
  Gillette
  Glendo
  Glenrock
  Green River
  Hulett
  Kaycee
  Laramie
  Lyman
  Pine Bluffs
  Ranchester
  Rawlins
  Sheridan
  Sundance
  Wheatland

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