This bite-sized museum serves up a good preview of Wyoming and will help you get your bearings. It takes a generalist approach to the state, ranging across mining history, ranching heritage and native struggle, to public lands, dinosaur digs and Wyoming wildlife.
Wyoming State Museum
Wyoming
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1.51 MILES
For a deep dive into Cheyenne's pioneer past and rodeo present, visit this museum year-round on the Frontier Days rodeo grounds. It is chock-full of rodeo…
0.94 MILES
Inside pretty Holliday Park you'll find the world's largest steam engine – old number 4004, now retired. The locomotive made its name pulling 3600-ton…
1.45 MILES
North of the town center, these botanic gardens are a lovely escape from urban Cheyenne, with manicured gardens, a stately plant-filled conservatory, a…
0.43 MILES
An important reminder that women were as much pioneers of the west as were men, this volunteer-run space has a small theaterette and some fascinating…
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0.43 MILES
An important reminder that women were as much pioneers of the west as were men, this volunteer-run space has a small theaterette and some fascinating…
0.94 MILES
Inside pretty Holliday Park you'll find the world's largest steam engine – old number 4004, now retired. The locomotive made its name pulling 3600-ton…
1.45 MILES
North of the town center, these botanic gardens are a lovely escape from urban Cheyenne, with manicured gardens, a stately plant-filled conservatory, a…
4. Frontier Days Old West Museum
1.51 MILES
For a deep dive into Cheyenne's pioneer past and rodeo present, visit this museum year-round on the Frontier Days rodeo grounds. It is chock-full of rodeo…