Laramie KOA

Laramie Plains Museum / Ivinson Mansion

The historic Ivinson Mansion, home to the Laramie Plains Museum, was the original home of the influential Ivinson Family, who helped the town of Laramie grow and prosper due to their community efforts and financial contributions. Today, after years of disuse, the home is a beautiful example of Laramie style of architecture, and houses a comprehensive collection of period antiques. The home is located in the downtown area, just west of the University of Wyoming campus.

Albany County Tourism Board

Visit their website at http://visitlaramie.org

UW Anthropology Museum

The Anthropology Museum showcases exhibits and artifacts that explore the societal evolution of the people and tribes that still move through the region today. The museum is located on the University of Wyoming campus, just south of Green Hill Cemetery.

Wyoming Children's Museum and Nature Center

The Children's Museum and Nature Center offers kids a chance to get excited about learning through a wonderful selection of hands-on and interactive exhibits. The museum is located inside the lovely Labonte Park near the heart of downtown. The Nature Center features a variety of living and stuffed animals for children to touch and learn about, including a great horned owl named Hissy.

The Ames Monument

Oliver and Oakes Ames were 19th century industrialists who, when they weren't producing shovels, were bribing Congress to finance the Union Pacific Railroad. The railroad decided to show its appreciation by building a pyramid in their honor in 1882, out of native granite quarried form the site. Building a pyramid also kept Union Pacific Railroad workers busy, and it gave Union Pacific passengers something to look at in Wyoming.

Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site

The Territorial Prison was originally built in 1782 and held some of the most infamous criminals of the time, including swaggering train robber Butch Cassidy. The park is coated west of downtown area. Visitors to the site can also visit the Broom Factory where much of the prison labor was carried out, the warden's restored house, and true to life sprawling homestead cabin.

University Art Museum

The Art Museum features a permanent collection of more than 7,000 pieces of regional, national, and international art, including impressive examples of Native American miniature paintings and 19th-century Japanese prints. The museum in located in the Centennial Complex, on the University of Wyoming campus. The building, designed by internationally reopened architect Antoine Predock, is built to represent a tiny village, poised on the edge of beautiful, steel man made mesa.

The Lincoln Monument

Located on the I-80 between Laramie and Cheyenne, it was commissioned by the state of Wyoming in 1959 to honor the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, and placed here in 1969 when I-80 was completer. It marks the highest point of the old Lincoln Highway (now I-80) from coast to coast -- about 8,640 ft. above sea level. The bronze head, sculpted by Robert Russin, is 12 1/2 feet high, though its 30-ft. tall granite pedestal assures that it can be seen from quite distance.

American Heritage Center

The American Heritage Center is the University Of Wyoming's book archive, as well as the rare book storage center and repository for manuscripts. The center is located on the University of Wyoming campus, near the Green Hill Cemetery. The collection of rare books held at the center is considered by many to be the finest in the nation, holding more than 40,000 volumes that track the history of literature, from the illuminated manuscripts of medieval times to 21st-century writings.

Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest

The Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest is nearly three million acres in size, and encompasses the town of Medicine Bow as well as Laramie, Gore and Flat Tops Mountain Range. The area sprawls from north-central Colorado into central Wyoming. A popular area of the national forest is the Thunder Basin Grassland, beautiful arid grassland that affords plenty of opportunities for sight-seeing, hiking, hunting and fishing.

Vedauwoo (Rock Climbing)

At an altitude of 8,000 feet, Vedauwoo is rather secluded in southeastern Wyoming, filled with dense pine forests. It is surrounded by a seemingly endless expanse of high plains and lies under a dome of intense cerulean blue sky. Views from the tops of the crags are stunning, and one can see from Wyoming's ragged mountains clear down the Continental Divide to Long's Peak, some 75 miles south in Colorado. A multitude of free-raining animal species are commonly found here, including small mammals, antelope, deer, cattle, and on occasional black bear or cougar. Today, climbers and others come here from nearly everywhere to indulge themselves within a setting alien rock formations and scenic valleys found only at Vedauwoo.

Snowy Range Ski Resort

Snowy Range offers a friendly, exciting winter adventure for you and your family. Take advantage of the day lodge, new last year. Seating for 850 people with a breathtaking view. Great spot for weddings, receptions, meetings or banquets.

Albany Lodge

The Albany Lodge offers a restaurant that welcomes you to come and enjoy breakfast in their country cafe' by grabbing a grilled sandwich or a sack lunch. In the evening treat yourself to their wide selection of full course meals. Albany Lodge also offers snowmobiles, Jeep 4x4, and ATV rentals for Full day or Half day rides. Snowmobilers will enjoy the snowy range finest snowmobiling areas in the world. With over 225 miles of groomed trails, and thousands of acres of open meadows. No area can boast more consistent powder. ATV's have hundreds of miles of trails for beginners to advanced riders. Riders can view the North Platte River, deep canyons, mountain creeks, alpine meadows and high peaks. Back country tours for viewing wildlife, old gold mines and buildings and fall colors are available by reservation. While Jeep 4x4 are great way to experience the mountain roads and wildlife or go sight seeing over the Swony Range's scenic by-way 130. You can keep the top up or down and you will never get lost with their GPS. This could be the family time you'll never forget. Albany Lodge is located 32 miles west of Laramie, Wyoming.

Undine Park

Geological Museum

The museum is able to open because the UW Foundation provided funding for a part-time security guard to ensure the safety of the collection. UW President Tom Buchanan has thanked the Foundation for its support in securing funding to make the collections accessible for public viewing.

Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) supports the last known breeding population of the endangered Wyoming toad. The Refuge encompasses 1,776 acres and is located southwest of Laramie, Wyoming. The four main lakes on the Refuge are associated with a series of high elevation lakes called the "Laramie plains lakes."

Wyo Theater

Trans - Lux Theater

See what's playing at http://transluxmovies.com