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LARAMIE lies fifty miles west of
Cheyenne on I-80, or slightly further via the spectacular Happy
Jack Road (Hwy-210), which slices through plains studded with
bizarrely shaped boulders and outcrops. At first Laramie seems
typical of rural Wyoming, but behind downtown's quaint Victorian
facades lurk hard-rocking record stores, day spas, vegetarian
caf?s and secondhand bookstores - unusual for rodeo land, and
due to the University of Wyoming , whose campus
spreads east from the town center.
The centerpiece of the ambitious Wyoming
Territorial Park , west of town at 975 Snowy Range Rd
(mid-May to Sept daily 10am-6pm; $6), is the old territorial prison
. A touch over-restored, it holds informative displays on the
Old West and women in Wyoming, and huge mugshots of ex-convicts,
among them Butch Cassidy, who was incarcerated here for eighteen
months in 1896, for - as was the crime of most of the inmates
- cattle-rustling.
The Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature
Center at 412 S Second St (Tues-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm;
$2 for adults, $3 for kids; tel 307/745-6332) is a great hands-on
experience, with gold panning, a crawl-through beaver lodge and
some live reptiles. The University of Wyoming visitor center,
1408 Ivinson Ave (Mon-Fri 8am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm; tel 307/766-4075),
can direct you to several free museums and sights of interest
on campus, including the Anthropology Museum, the Museum of Geology,
the University Art Museum and the Rocky Mountain Herbarium.
