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 cafés 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), 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. Hotels in Laramie |
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