Wyoming is an American state. Wyoming is bordered by
Montana to
the north, South Dakota and
Nebraska to the east,
Colorado to
the south, and Utah and
Idaho to the west. Wyoming is located in
the Rocky Mountains region and is nicknamed the Cowboy State.
With just under 600,000 inhabitants, it is the most sparsely
populated state in the country and has the second lowest
population density after Alaska. The state is known for its
great scenery, particularly in Yellowstone National Park.
Wyoming is a plateau averaging 6,500 feet (1,950 m) on which
rise various chains of the Rocky Mountains, culminating in Mount
Fremont (4,203 m) in the Wind River chain. It is here that the
state's three main rivers originate, none of which are
navigable: the Yellowstone, Snake River and Green River. The
northern arm of the Platte River flows through the southeastern
corner of the state, where it meets the Laramie.
1 Buffalo
2 Cheyenne - Capital.
3 Dubois
4 Lander
5
Jackson
6 Rawlins
7 Sheridan
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By plane
1 Jackson Hole Airport (IATA: JAC)
2 Casper/Natrona
County International Airport (IATA: CPR)
3 Cheyenne Regional Airport
(IATA: CYS)
By car
I25 Denver CO - Fort Collins CO - Cheyenne
WY - Casper WY
I80 Salt Lake City UT - Cheyenne WY - Big Springs NE
I90 Billings MT - Buffalo WY - Sioux Falls SD
Wyoming lodging options include upscale resorts, branded hotels and motels, historic inns, cozy bed and breakfasts, and campgrounds and RV parks. Nationally known chain accommodations are concentrated in Cheyenne, Casper and at points along I-25 and I-80. Roadside motels are by far the most common type of lodging in the state. In areas of the state with oil and gas fields or near mines, motels may serve as temporary work accommodation, and rooms may be hard to come by.
General
Wyoming extends over a width of 450 km between 41° N and
45° N and a length of 580 km between 104°3' W and 111°3' W. With its
253,336 km² it is the tenth largest state in the USA in terms of area.
At 2044 m, it is also the second highest average state in the country
after Colorado. It is located in the western center of the US territory
and is therefore part of the legendary so-called (Wild) West (hence the
nickname Cowboy State) due to its location (as well as its culture).
Wyoming is bordered by Montana to the north, South Dakota and
Nebraska to the east, Colorado to the south, and Utah and Idaho to the
west. Along with Colorado, Wyoming is one of only two US states that are
bounded exclusively by two degrees of latitude and two degrees of
longitude. The demarcation corresponds (on a corresponding draft map
network, such as the Mercator projection) with minor deviations to a
rectangle.
Essentially, Wyoming is a vast, broken plateau from
which rise various ridges of the Rocky Mountains. Seen from a
cross-sectional perspective, this plateau is at an incline,
transitioning from a higher west to a lower east. This inclination also
describes the transition from the far eastern plains of the prairies via
central basin landscapes to the rocky mountains to the west. Wyoming is
a state that combines the great cultural landscapes of the Great Plains
and the Rocky Mountains - a position it shares with only three of the 50
other states: Montana to the north and Colorado and New Mexico to the
south.
Another geographical significance is Wyoming's location on
the Great Continental Divide, the great continental divide of the North
American continent that bisects the state in a northwest-southeast
direction. It runs along the Absaroka Range and Wind River Ranges and
continues into the Great Divide Basin and later the Park Range (largely
in Colorado). All rivers originating east of this line drain east and
eventually all join the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi
River and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico). Those
rivers that begin west of the Continental Divide end in the Pacific
(either in the open ocean if they follow the Columbia River westward, or
in the Gulf of California if they drain south into the Green River and
later the Colorado River).
Wyoming can be divided into three
major geographic areas, each roughly one-third of the state's territory:
the Great Plains, the Intermountain Basins, and the Rocky Mountains.
Eastern Wyoming is occupied by the Great Plains, expansive prairies
that stretch from southern Canada through the center of the United
States and down to the Mexican border, forming a major cultural
landscape known throughout the world. They also gave the state its name,
which is taken from the Cheyenne language and means great plains.
Wyoming's prairies are characterized on the one hand by completely
flat stretches of land, but on the other hand by the predominance of
gently rolling hills. The majority of this area is characterized by
short grass overgrown, largely treeless steppe landscapes, which are
only found along the rivers, e.g. T. are interspersed with poplars and
bushes. Farming (preferably wheat) is hardly possible in these windy,
dry expanses, instead extensive grazing is practiced.
On the
prairie in northeastern Wyoming, the Belle Fourche River is the deepest
point in the entire state at 3,000 feet (945 m). However, this does not
preclude larger upheavals in the same region: the Wyoming prairies
account for about a third of the Black Hills, the sacred mountains of
the Sioux and Cheyenne peoples, who call them Pahá Sapá (Lakota) or
Mo'ōhta-vo'honáaeva (Cheyenne/Algonkin). The archipelago, partly densely
covered with ponderosa pines, reaches heights of just over 2000 m in
Wyoming and is home to a well-known natural landmark: Devils Tower
National Monument, a monumental volcanic monolith that towers 386 m
above the Belle Fourche River and is 1558 m high reached. This mountain
is sacred to the Sioux and Cheyenne and also to other First Nations and
bears the name Mato Tipila (hut of the bear) in Lakota.
Mainly in the north-west of the state and partly also in the
south-east there are huge mountain ranges, all of which are part of the
Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains in Wyoming split into distinct
ridges, usually running north-south or northwest-southeast. The Bighorn
and Laramie Mountains limit the prairies and mark the transition to
extensive basin landscapes that are framed by the mountain ranges.
The most impressive outcrops of Wyoming's Rocky Mountains are the
Absaroka, Teton, Wind River and Wyoming Ranges and Big Horn Mountains to
the northwest, contrasted by the lower and less spectacular Laramie and
Medicine Bow Mountains to the southeast. The Wind River Range is
particularly high and wildly rugged, with nine four-thousanders towering
into the sky. Wyoming's highest elevation is also located here: Gannett
Peak, which reaches 4202 m, 4207 m or 4210 m depending on the
measurement.
A highly valued photo motif and symbol of powerful,
untouched nature is the Teton Range with its 4196 m high Grand Teton,
the second highest mountain in the state, on the edge of the national
park of the same name south of Yellowstone National Park.
Due to
their relatively high rainfall, the mountain ranges of the Rocky
Mountains are densely forested. Because of the altitude and the
harshness of the climate, coniferous trees predominate, with which the
timber industry makes a lucrative business. Valuable raw materials such
as oil shale, hard coal, iron ore and uranium lie beneath the rock.
Mountain tourism (hiking, climbing, canoeing and rafting in the summer,
skiing in the winter season) is also important.
Intermountain
Basins
The third major geographic area is represented by extensive
basins, located predominantly in the center and south-west and bordered
by the mountain ranges, e.g. B. the Bighorn, Great Divide, Green River
and Wind River Basins. These basins are relatively high (1000–2000 m)
but flat and mostly covered with short grass or low scrub. There are
hardly any trees. Since they are located directly in the lee of the
large mountain ranges, these basin landscapes have very little
precipitation and therefore occasionally have a semi-desert character.
Nevertheless, together with the Great Plains, they are the heartland of
population and agriculture. Without irrigation, however, arable farming
(especially wheat and sugar beets) is hardly possible here.
A
special feature is the Great Divide Basin, which is a semi-desert with
no inflow or outflow directly on the continental divide. Here is the
so-called Red Desert, a semi-desert and desert area covering around
24,000 km², which is known for its sand dunes, which are among the most
powerful in the USA. To the southwest are bizarre gorges, such as the
colorful Flaming Gorge, which are reminiscent of the Canyonlands in Utah
and Arizona further to the southwest.
As a fairly dry patch of the United States, Wyoming naturally has no
major wetlands or lakes. Only 0.7% of the state area is covered by
water. This puts Wyoming in tenth-last place among American states,
along with other states in the Midwest and Southwest (Arizona, Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska, etc.).
Almost a quarter of Wyoming's total
water surface is taken up by Yellowstone Lake in the national park of
the same name, which extends over 352 km² within the park boundaries. It
lies at an altitude of 2,376 m, has 177 km of shoreline and, with an
average water depth of 42 m, measures 118 m at its deepest point. Its
position as the largest freshwater lake over 2,000 m in all of North
America is outstanding. However, Yellowstone Lake has a liquid surface
only about half the year (and rarely warms above 15°C) as it freezes
over in normal winters from early December to late May or early June.
The ice sheet is up to a meter thick in many places, but there are areas
where shallow, near-shore waters overlie warm springs that prevent ice
from forming in those places.
The second largest lake is not far
to the south and is also over 2000 m above sea level. It is the 103 km²
Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park, which at 134 m is even deeper
than Yellowstone Lake. Originally smaller, the water surface was
enlarged by a dam. Jackson Lake is also frozen half the year and rarely
exceeds 15 °C, even in hot summers.
Aside from these two large
lakes, there are a few smaller ones, almost all of which are river
impoundments, such as the Bighorn, Boysen, Buffalo Bill, Flaming Gorge,
Fontenelle, Glendo, Keyhole, Pathfinder, and Seminoe Reservoirs, all of
which are of primary importance importance for agriculture and the water
supply of the cities. Wyoming's rivers originate on the slopes of the
mountain ranges that make up the Continental Divide. The longest river
in Wyoming's territory is the North Platte River in the southeast at
over 500 km. It is also of particular importance in that it is home to
three of the most water-rich reservoirs. The Green River, the third
longest river at almost 400 km, is dammed to form two large reservoirs,
the Fontenelle Reservoir and the Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which
stretches into neighboring Utah. Located on the Wind/Bighorn River, the
second longest in Wyoming (approximately 500 km), are the Bighorn and
Boysen reservoirs on which the income from farming in the Bighorn Basin
depends. Other rivers of importance include the Snake, Belle Fourche and
Powder Rivers, which criss-cross the prairie to the northeast,
Sweetwater and Laramie Rivers to the southeast, both of which feed the
North Platte, and Black Fork, Hams Fork and Sandy to the southwest
Rivers (Big Sandy River, Little Sandy River) flowing into the Green
River, and the smaller tributaries of the Wind or Bighorn River in the
Bighorn Basin: Greybull, Gooseberry Creek, Nowood, and Shoshone.
Wyoming's high plains are home to rabbits, prairie dogs, coyotes,
pronghorn, rattlesnakes, goshawks, grouse and pheasants. Bison and
pronghorn were nearly wiped out on the plains at the end of the 19th
century due to excessive hunting, but their populations were able to
stabilize thanks to far-reaching protective measures. After the
pronghorn were placed under protection, they multiplied again from about
5,000 animals in 1903 to more than half a million today. This means that
there are at least as many pronghorns living in Wyoming as there are
people. Wyoming also has the highest pronghorn population in the US and
also has the largest contiguous herd of these animals in the US in the
Red Desert at 40,000-50,000 individuals. The bison, of which it is
estimated that between 30 and 70 million roamed the North American
continent in huge herds at the time of Columbus, had been decimated to
less than 1000 specimens at the end of the 19th century. On the one
hand, the massive animals lost large parts of their habitat and were
prevented from migrating by increasing settlements, on the other hand,
they were hunted to an excessive extent, especially after it became
apparent that many Indian peoples would perish with the bison. One of
the last small herds of bison was given a secure retreat in Yellowstone
National Park. Their population was able to stabilize there and was 4700
animals in 2007. This is the largest free-roaming herd in the entire
United States. In addition, Wyoming, like many other states, has
thriving bison ranches where thousands of animals are bred in Wyoming
alone. The demand for bison meat and leather is significant.
Unlike the Plains, Wyoming's Rocky Mountains are partially forested.
Cougars, bobcats and mule deer live in the lower reaches of the Rockies,
while bighorn sheep and mountain goats live in the higher reaches.
Mammals such as gray squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, tree porcupines and
skunks can also be found in the mountains, while elk, elk, wolves, black
and grizzly bears can also be found in the Yellowstone region. Until the
early 1800s, beavers were widespread in the mountains of Wyoming. They
were nearly wiped out for their furs. Today they are protected and their
numbers are slowly recovering.
Among the deer species, wapitis
(this name comes from the language of the Blackfoot Indians and means
white rump, in English they are referred to as elk (not to be confused
with elk (moose)) and mule deer (mule deer)) are the best known
representatives. Wyoming has approximately 106,000 elk (as of 2001) and
the world's largest herd of desert elk (desert elk herd) in the Red
Desert. Mule deer numbers may number in the hundreds of thousands, with
40,000-50,000 individuals found in the Red Desert alone.
The
grizzly bears, which remain endangered, are primarily found in the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which has the largest population in the
United States, at 500-600 animals (around 1400 total in Montana, Idaho,
Washington and Wyoming, compared to 50,000-100,000 before the discovery
of North America or its settlement by Europeans).
The number of
bighorn sheep is around 6000 (as of 2004) and that of mountain goats at
100 to 200 specimens. Mountain goats, which live primarily in and around
Yellowstone National Park, pose a problem in that they were not
originally native to Wyoming. According to the Yellowstone Parks
Administration, however, they have settled in well and threaten the
authenticity of the region's fauna.
Wyoming has a semi-arid, continental climate that can come up with
all sorts of extremes. It is shaped by several geographical factors that
are reflected in different ways in the climatic conditions.
overview
The state's location in the heart of the North American
continent, away from any major bodies of water that might have a
balancing effect on the climate, ensures a strictly continental climate
characterized by hot summers, cold winters and low rainfall. The
relatively high location of large parts of the country (there are hardly
any areas that are below 1000 m above sea level), coupled with a
southern location (roughly between the 41st and 45th degree of latitude,
which in Europe corresponds to the height of central Italy, southern
France and northern Spain) and dry air, causes strong temperature
fluctuations between day and night. The Rocky Mountains also have a
decisive effect: on the one hand, they represent a real barrier that
shields humid and rainy air masses from the Pacific and thus ensures
semi-arid conditions in their rain shadow. On the other hand, their
folding in a north-south direction enables a more or less unhindered
exchange of air masses in parallel. That means sudden polar cold air
snaps can occur year-round. Thirdly, the mountains also enable exactly
the opposite effect: warm fall winds - known as Chinook (comparable to
the Alpine föhn) - can ensure unusually mild temperatures, especially in
winter. After all, the location near the jet stream as well as wide,
hilly prairies and plateaus mean that conditions are quite windy.
detail
Two local climate types can be identified in detail: On
the one hand, the extensive prairies, plateaus and basins in central,
eastern and southwestern Wyoming have a continental steppe climate -
such as the Powder River Basin, Bighorn Basin, Great Divide Basin and
Green River Basin, which are associated with the largest places (Casper,
Cheyenne, Gillette, Green River, Rawlins, Rock Springs and Sheridan)
also unite a large part of the population. On the other hand, a mountain
climate prevails in the mountain ranges and high valleys above 1900 m -
this affects e.g. B. the Absaroka Range, the Bighorn Mountains, Laramie
Mountains, Wind River Range and Wyoming Range, which run north-south
through the state and have several peaks over 4000 m; The entire
world-famous Yellowstone National Park, which is consistently above 2000
m, and the area of Jackson Hole to the south, which is famous for its
winter sports facilities, also fall into this climate range.
The steppe climate of the prairies is characterized by exceptionally
cold but very dry winters. December, January and February are the driest
months of the year; the temperatures drop at night on average to −13 to
−8 °C, while the daily highs are mostly around the freezing point or in
the delicate plus range (typically −1 to +4 °C) despite the biting
morning frost. Cold waves, which can come in unhindered from the north,
occasionally cause significant drops in temperature and severe frost: It
can then cool down to below −30 °C at night, and temperatures often do
not rise above −15 °C during the day either. Blizzards can also initiate
sudden, heavy snowfalls that can bring public life to a standstill. On
the other hand, when the warm downwind Chinook hits the basins and
plains, it can easily reach +15°C (even at night); up to +20 °C are
possible on peak days.
In spring and early summer, the humidity
rises with the temperatures. It can rain up to ten days a month (this
yields between 30 and 65 mm of precipitation, which is seldom reached in
much of central Europe, even in the driest months!). In summer, the rain
often falls in the form of violent thunderstorms, which discharge over
the heated prairies and often bring devastating hail, storms or
lightning. In midsummer it becomes drier again and temperatures rise to
an average maximum of 27 to 33 °C during the day. At night, however, it
cools down noticeably in most areas (9–14 °C) due to the altitude,
drought and high pressure zones; except in July and August there can be
morning frosts everywhere. On the other hand, heat waves of over 35 °C
are not uncommon, in many places more than 40 °C have already been
measured; this is often accompanied by dry periods in which there can be
no precipitation for weeks. In autumn there is a slight increase in
humidity again, before very dry conditions prevail again with the frost
in winter.
Some valleys in the Rockies' rain shadow receive so
little rainfall that they can be described as semi-desert, e.g. B. the
Bighorn Basin, which receives only 130–200 mm of precipitation per year.
It is generally cooler and wetter in the mountains. In the mountain
ranges and high valleys, especially in the mountainous and high-altitude
northwest of the state (with Yellowstone and Jackson Hole), permafrost
prevails from early December to late February (e.g. Jackson: night −18
°C, day −4 °C; possible down to below −40 °C). In contrast to the
plains, there is maximum precipitation in the winter half of the year,
which falls abundantly and mostly in the form of snow. Snow-reliable ski
areas in Jackson Hole and the surrounding area benefit from this, with
up to 8 m of snow per year. This is due to frequent cloud accumulation
caused by the westerly wind drift, which shovels moist air masses from
the Pacific towards the Rocky Mountains, where they unload their wet
cargo.
Until late May, winter and spring fight in the mountain
regions, rain showers, sun and snowstorms chasing each other. Only in
midsummer does drier and warmer weather prevail.
In principle,
however, it can snow at altitudes over 2000 m at any time of the year,
even in July. The summers are generally very different: sometimes the
mountain valleys are constantly hit by violent thunderstorms, including
hail, storms, lightning and heavy rain, then again it is very dry and
sunny; some years the summers are very cool (in the town of Jackson
there are summers in which the temperature never exceeds 25 °C), in
others they are almost hot (e.g. in Jackson the temperature reaches 36
°C). There are morning frosts practically every summer.
The strong continental character of Wyoming's climate, coupled with
local conditions, leads to frequent extreme weather events. In the
winter months, these are mainly blizzards that come in from the north
and can paralyze public life with freezing rain and heavy snowfalls.
Except in midsummer, there is always a risk of blizzards. The blizzards
are contrasted by the extremes of summer: Weeks of shimmering heat and
without any precipitation regularly have a severe impact on agriculture,
as do the violent (hail) storms that fall in large numbers. The
southeast of the state is also in the catchment area of tornadoes, which
occur significantly less frequently and destructively than in the
prairies further south, but still sweep over the country from time to
time. A weather phenomenon that occurs regardless of the season is
significant temperature drops. While the day and night fluctuations can
be considerable (up to 30 °C), changes in air masses or other wind
phenomena (blizzards, Chinook) repeatedly cause temperatures to rise or
fall enormously within a few hours. Temperature fluctuations of up to 40
°C within 24 hours have already been observed.
The lowest
temperature ever measured in Wyoming is −54.4 °C (= −66 °F). This record
comes from two locations, Riverside (2177 m) in the south of the state
and Moran (2057 m) in the northwest near Yellowstone Park, the coldest
continuously inhabited place in Wyoming, and was measured on February 9,
1933. Since then, similarly low values have only been reached in the
Yellowstone area (−54 °C). The highest temperature recorded was at Basin
Village in the north-central, semi-arid Bighorn Basin commonly known as
hot and dry: it was 46.7 °C (= 116 °F) on August 8, 1983.
By the late 19th century, Wyoming was inhabited largely by Native
Americans from the following tribes: Absarokee, Arapaho, Bannock,
Cheyenne, Lakota, Pawnee, Northern and Eastern Shoshone, and Ute. As the
whites pushed farther and farther west from the east, Wyoming's Indian
tribes came under increasing pressure.
Since the end of the 17th
century, Wyoming, with the exception of the southwest, has belonged to
the French colony of Louisiana. In 1762 the territory went to Spain, and
in 1800 to France. Three years later, the United States acquired the
Louisiana Colony territory for $15 million with the Louisiana Purchase.
The southwestern part first belonged to Utah.
At the end of the
18th century, French trappers may have been the first whites to enter
the Wyoming area in the north, but it is only the journeys of John
Colter to the Yellowstone area in 1807 that are certain. Hardly anyone
believed his reports of geysers and other hot springs. 20 years later,
Jim Bridger explored the South Pass over the Rockies. Beginning in 1841,
this route became part of the Oregon Trail, which many pioneers used to
advance west. Along the trail many forts shot up in a short time, in
Wyoming for example Fort Laramie (1834) and Fort Bridger (1843). In
1850, Bridger also discovered Bridger Pass, which the Union Pacific
Railroad used from 1868 for its railway line. After Wyoming was opened
up by the railroad, the first cities such as Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins,
Rock Springs and Evanston were designated by the railroad. In the 20th
century, a highway was built over Bridger Pass, Interstate 80.
After the Union Pacific Railroad reached what is now Cheyenne in 1867,
Wyoming's white population continued to increase. On July 25, 1868, they
formed the Wyoming Territory. Unlike the neighboring states of Montana,
South Dakota and Colorado, Wyoming has never had a sudden population
increase due to major discoveries of precious metals such as gold and
silver. Only copper has been found in various parts of Wyoming.
The Wyoming Territory (which later became the state) became the first
U.S. territory to introduce women's suffrage in 1869. Wyoming had the
first female justice of the peace and, in 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross, the
first female governor (Prime Minister) of a US state.
In 1872,
the US government created the world's first national park, Yellowstone
National Park, 96 percent of which is in Wyoming.
In the 19th
century, many Wyoming Native American tribes waged a desperate defensive
war against invading whites. Although the allied Lakota, Arapaho and
Cheyenne were victorious in a few skirmishes and battles over troops of
the US Army - the most famous victory they won at the Battle of the
Little Bighorn (1876) - they had to face white superiority towards the
end of the 19th century capitulate. A key factor was that the whites
systematically shot the bison and thus deprived the Indians of their
livelihood. One who excelled at bison hunting was William Frederick
Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill. By the late 19th century, all
Wyoming Indians lived on Indian reservations, mostly outside of Wyoming.
In Wyoming only the Wind River Reservation was established, inhabited by
the eastern Shoshone and northern Arapaho.
On July 10, 1890, the
state became the 44th to join the United States. However, Wyoming
insisted that the unrestricted women's right to vote, which had existed
there since 1869, would remain in place. The US Congress wanted to
abolish this when Wyoming was admitted as the 44th state in the USA. In
1892, white land disputes broke out in the Johnson County War.
In
addition to agriculture, mining developed into the most important branch
of the economy. In 1924, irregularities in the allocation of oil
reserves near Casper led to the Teapot Dome Scandal, the largest US
political bribery scandal of the early 1920s.
Wyoming's first constitution of 1890 is still in effect. The
executive branch is headed by the governor, who is directly elected for
four-year terms. The Wyoming Legislature consists of a 30-member Senate
and a 60-member House of Representatives. The state sends one
representative to the House of Representatives according to its
population and, like all states, two senators to the Senate. In
presidential elections, he provides three electors.
Wyoming is
considered one of the most conservative and nationally one of the most
reliably voting Republican states in the United States. Wyoming has not
voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1964. In the 2004
presidential election, George W. Bush had the third-biggest electoral
success with 69% of the votes. Trump achieved his best result 16 years
later at the state level in Wyoming with 69.9%. Bush's Vice President
Dick Cheney grew up in Casper, Wyoming and represented the state in
Congress from 1979 to 1989.
However, since 1975 the governorship
has been occupied predominantly by Democrats. Longtime Governor Dave
Freudenthal was elected in 2002 and 2006 and had one of the highest
approval ratings in the country. When he was not allowed to run again
after two terms in office, he was replaced in January 2011 by Republican
Matt Mead, who was re-elected in 2014. Mead was succeeded in 2019 by
Mark Gordon, also a Republican.
Wyoming is represented in
Congress by Senators Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso and Representative
Liz Cheney; all are Republicans.