All too often, when someone asks about Wyoming, we all post beautiful mountain pictures from Yellowstone, the Tetons, or other picturesque spots, of which there are many.  

Unfortunately, people tend to think this is what most of WY looks like.

This thread is here to inform the folks who are thinking this is the state for you.   It's not.   Don't move here.   Your wife won't go for it once she sees the real landscape.  


My wife told me a story that a recent applicant for a VP position at the college was flown in from back east with his wife for an interview.   He declined it before he could even be interviewed, simply from the drive from Cody, to Powell, a total of 25miles.   It was too much for the guys wife to handle.

Yesterday, my wife and drove 6.5hrs from Powell, in one corner of WY, to Cheyenne, in the opposite corner for a Florida Georgia Line concert.   The concert was awesome, but we talked about how desolate the landscape is during the drive.   We obviously had lots of time.   I decided to take a few shots of the landscape on the way home today.    My wife was getting a little pissed at all the stops and I neglected the last hour or so, but it's more picturesque anyway, so it really doesn't fit this thread.

I would ask other Wyoming members to add to this thread through out the year with photos of just how remote our landscape is, and stay away from all the photos that might end up in a travel brochure.  

Today it was 100F it 2:20pm, with gusts up to 45mph....   A bit of a warm day
Here are the photos from the trip..

The concert lat night... 2hrs before FGL came on stage.. If you don't want to see livestock at your concerts, Wyoming isn't for you...  
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This was just north of Laramie...  Lots of grass, and it's unusual to see haystacks like this, so I snapped a shot.  You'll notice the mountains in the far, far background.   Only once did we actually drive through "mountains" today and that was the Wind River Canyon, more of a desert mountain range.  
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Everything else was high desert.......
This should worry anyone who doesn't want to live where it's windy.  Look close at the far distant horizon....
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A panoramic seemed appropriate for this....
More moisture than we get in the north, and this is around 8000ft I believe.
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If you see those structures on the left.....it's a bad idea to be there when the snow starts blowing.
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More to follow in a bit.  This was about 2hrs into the drive...

I love Wyoming.  You won't discourage me.

Some of the prettiest country on earth as far as I'm concerned.  Of course I'm from Kansas.

Pictures don't do it justice. You must experience the wind, -20F+ winters, and the smoke from the summer forest fires to really know that it isn't for you.

Same goes for Montana, just come in the early summer and spend your money then leave.

I could deal with that all the time.

Headed out there in September, staying in Cody with the GF's family. We plan to avoid the part in your pics

What makes it pretty is the lack of people!

i want to move there so bad. just can't find work. i would love to get rich, it is where i am going.

Been there,  pretty neat place

So pretty much like IL outside of Chicago, with less annoying traffic, grass instead of corn,

and there isn't a shitty looking falling down farm shack or rotted old barn every 1/2 mile?

I agree

I dream of WY.

We are the lowest populated state for a reason.  Hurricane force winds in the winter time day after day after day after day after day after day after day................Most that come here don't stay for long.  Fine by me.

I'd still live there even knowing the state quite well. My parents and I went to Montana on vacations during the summer.

Nothing like seeing signs that say no services next 80 miles. I guess the people that live that far out never let their gas tank get lower than 1/2 tank.

Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado are my favorite states. Colorado may get the boot though if they don't throw out the Democrats.

I love Wyoming. I spent some time working in a little place called Torrington over on the eastern side.

Drove up from Cheyenne a few times. Nice people and town.

I only know the western part of the state, wouldn't mind living in star valley or Jackson area, you couldn't pay me to live in Kemmerer area

I love the Wind River Canyon....................I hate those goddamned windmills.

I'm from Montana, lived in rural idaho, Colorado and Washington.

1 winter in south central Wyoming beat my ass like I owed it money.  Sorry, y'all can keep that shit.

Looks an awful lot like where I grew up.  (Texas Panhandle).

If that was the Cinch HS rodeo series, It'll show up on RFD-TV before long.

I love watching those kids ridin' and ropin'. I think we'll be seeing a few of them on the professional circuits before long.

We camped in the Bighorns one night on our way to backpack Jasper Park in Alberta. I always swore I'd come back and spend some time in Wyoming, but never made it.

Wide open roads + fast car =

I have driven through these areas of Wyoming, nothing in those pics that would keep me away. I would move out there in a heart beat if both my and my wife's family were not all here in SC. Aging parents make it hard to head to the other side of the country.

What are the people like?    Are they great neighbors who will help others when they are in need?

Decent folks who don't assault others just for the fun of it.

In other words....real Americans.

Compare those pictures with pictures from Detroit, parts of Chicago, New Jersey and so on.

I lived in Cheyenne as a kid. I liked it, but we had come from Alaska so the cold didn't bother me. Frontier Days was always fun.

 

Fellow Wyoming boy stuck in Fucking Denver.

I always liked Wyoming, my aunt and uncle have a farm there

More.....
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Notice the grass is getting thinner, and more brush...   Less water.  Most of WY averages less than 4" of moisture a year.    It's a fucking desert.
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Getting closer to Casper.    More hills but still desert.
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Ahhh, my wife's favorite.....the stretch between Casper and Shoshone...  1.5hrs of this......nothing more.
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Almost to Shoshone..  

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Notice the lack of grass....   It's hot, and dry
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Inside the Big Horn Basin.   We went the western route that skirts the mountains, so there is more hills, and grass.  
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Getting closer to Cody.  The desert landscape goes right up till the real mountains. These are just foothills.
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Sorry, that's all I have for now.   Come fall and winter I'm sure several members can post memorable photos of what Wyoming is like with a cold, and snow.

I've driven all over SE Wyoming. Yes is is sparsly populated, but that's it's appeal. I could pull off the highway to streach my legs and not see another car for 1/2 hr and no noise except the wind through the sagebrush. I love it here and after being raised in So Cal then moving around for 20 years in the AF, I finally found where I belong. If you are the type that can hack it here WITHOUT trying to change it...we welcome you.

I've kicked around WY quite a bit, and MT a little.
I'd go there for good if I could find something to do for money.

my wife fell in love with Buffalo, WY, years ago.

It looks nice there

loneliest I have EVER felt in my life was driving across Wyoming. Lonely nearly to tears..

We just camped in the Bighorns over by Ten Sleep. It's an amazing area for sure. Montana's still better though.

I hope to get back there to hunt the 2015 season. I've got quite a few points now.

Grass?  Don't make me laugh.

I love Wyoming!

I have driven from Sundance to Rawlins a few times. Been to Jackson Hole and West Yellowstone  And have driven all around it.  Beautiful state.

There is everything from flat boring prairie to hilly to downright mountainous landscape.  Drives are fairly roundabout and somewhat long to get places but who cares.  

Oh and they Wyoming "breeze".  

Where all the trees at?

Absolutely true.  This man is a Prophet.

What's up with the windmill pictures?
Really slight HDR?

I lived in Wyoming from 1969 thru 1983 liked the whole place but loved the Deserts in South Western area.

Why?  Sounds like you need to relocate.

As could I. Except for the music. I like real country.i

just move to this area: eta: gotta think positive!
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Spent 8mos in Guernsey doing a 55,000ac boundary survey for Camp Guernsey north training area.  Loved it, even the boring treeless rolling hills.

No trees, just in the mountains and along rivers/streams.  Some areas like the Red Desert your lucky to even get a tree to grow.

They fucking blew away. Have you ever been to Wyoming?

That being said my stepkids graduate in six years and Wyoming is in my fall back plans. I actually like the landscape there.

I have a great Wyoming story from outside Gray Bull. It involves hang overs, trucks with no gas, snakes, ambulances, fighting, major accident and Taco Bell.
All in about an hours time.

It's beautiful and no masses of people

I love your posts, but you make it look depressing out there. I know you guys have trees and mountains and shit, right?

It's green here. Until winter anyways.