The Buttes: I 80 Walcott Junction - East
The Buttes occupies an open high-desert transport corridor in south-central Wyoming. Near Walcott Junction, Interstate 80 meets Wyoming Highway 130, while U.S. Routes 30 and 287 connect this sparse stretch with Rawlins, Laramie and the North Platte River country. Broad sagebrush flats are enclosed by low, treeless ridges, with the Medicine Bow Mountains rising farther south. This is working ranchland and long-haul road country rather than a settled townscape: traffic, frontage roads and widely scattered buildings punctuate a large, dry basin. The corridor also follows the broader path of the historic Lincoln Highway, whose Wyoming route is largely carried by U.S. 30.
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The Buttes combines the exposed openness of southeastern Wyoming with the shelter of nearby conifer country, a contrast that reflects its position on high ground south of Laramie. Near the Pole Mountain area of Medicine Bow National Forest, this small locality belongs to a setting of granite outcrops, pine forest and broad upland terrain. The Laramie Range rises east of the Laramie Basin, shaping a region where weather, altitude and long distances remain part of daily life. Nearby Laramie is home to the University of Wyoming, founded in 1886. Find related webcams in the surrounding area to build a fuller picture of southeastern Wyoming.
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