Casper Information, Interactive Map, and Pictures
by Jim Krumm
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This map of Casper is an interactive map. As you move across the map of the City of Casper with your mouse, links will appear allowing you to see places in Casper which relate to the map. Photos are here of all the schools, golf courses, most of major shopping centers, town halls, almost all of the parks, and some important intersections. Have fun exploring Casper!
Casper Information:
Images of Casper Mountain, the Plains, Downtown Casper, Canoeing the Platte, Aerial View of Casper, A Cowboy on a Trailer at the Casper Day Parade and Hang Gliding on Casper Mountain
So were you looking for a good college, in a nice place, that is affordable to attend? You might want to consider coming to Casper College. Casper College is in Casper, Wyoming, a city of about 50,000 people, 5,100 feet high, right in the middle of Wyoming, a state that boasts the smallest population in the United States. Wyoming's economy is largely dependent on minerals (coal, petroleum, bentonite, trona, etc.), ranching and tourism, but increasingly high tech firms are finding their way into this state because of its highly educated population and pro-business attitude, not to mention the absence of state income taxes. Wyoming is the leading exporter of coal in the United States and said to have enough coal to meet the needs of the United States for 200 years.
Casper lays alongside a an 8000 foot high mountain here in the Rockies called Casper Mountain (naturally) and has a river flowing through it called the North Platte. The North Platte is a wonderful place to canoe and fish. We also have a white water kayak park right in the middle of town on the Platte River. The fishing on the Platte is excellent and 70 miles south of town it so good, it is called the "Miracle Mile." Casper Mountain is large enough to host camping areas and a ski area. Hogadon Ski area is just 7 miles from town. In the winter, people can still drive to the top of the mountain and go inner tubing, sledding, and snowmobiling. Casper has a vast cross country ski area on Casper Mountain which boasts well groomed trails which are even lit at night. Casper Mountain a great place to go hiking, picnicking, and to look for wild life. Casper Mountain even has a bird sanctuary that can be visited and a an archery range for archery enthusiasts.
 Casper After A Snow Storm |
 On the Cross Country Ski Trail |
 Jon Striking a Pose at the Warm Up Hut |
 The Lifts at Hogadon |
 A Snow boarder at Hogadon |
 Kayaking on the Platte River |
Three miles out of town, Casper has a natural waterfall that has a drop of over 50 feet called Garden Creek Falls. Thirty miles from town we have Alcova reservoir, an excellent place to go fishing, swimming, boating, and even sailing. Alcova has magnificent rocks that ring this reservoir which in part snakes through the breathtaking 3 mile long canyon. Wyoming is famous for it's archeological record, particularly for finding dinosaur fossils. At Alcova, numerous dinosaurs have been excavated, and there is even a place that is called the dinosaur trail where to this day you can walk and see fossil remains that goes back even before the dinosaurs when Alcova and much of Wyoming were underwater in the Inland Sea and also find dinosaur bones. Throughout Wyoming there are places where you can find semi precious stones like jade, agate, feldspar, and jasper and most recently opals on Beaver Rim. There are old ghost towns like South Pass and Atlantic City where gold rushes occurred where you can still pan for gold. In Casper, there once was an old frontier fort, called Fort Caspar, which has been restored from a hundred years ago, when it was the subject of a number of skirmishes with Native Americans in the area.
 Real Pirates on Alcova |
 Sailing on Alcova |
 The Annual Regatta |
 Casper Events Center |
 View of Wyoming Blvd from the Mall |
 Eastridge Mall |
 Wyoming and 2nd Street |
 Coming into Casper |
 Fort Caspar |
Casper is large enough to have an event's center where some of the top bands in the country come to perform. The Casper Events center also plays host to rodeos, semipro indoor football, and even monster truck rallies. Casper has an excellent mall called the Eastridge Mall. Casper has 4 golf courses, and an athletic club where people can play indoor tennis, racquetball, lift weights, swim laps, etc.
Above are some of the landmarks in Casper. Top left is our city hall. Our Planetarium is an excellent place to learn about the planets and the stars. The Casper Recreation Center with it's own ice skating rink, gymnasiums, weight rooms, pool tables, karate lessons etc. and will soon also be the site of a new city aquatics center. The Casper Fairgrounds plays host to the Annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo. The National Historical Trails Center honors and provides information on the numerous trails which once passed through Casper over a hundred years ago including the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Pony Express Route, and the Bozeman Trail. The Natrona County Library is an excellent library. The Nicolaysen Art Museum is a first rate Art Museum in a beautiful building which puts on superb art shows for the community bringing a touch of culture to Casper. At Wyoming and CY there is a cool bronze stature portraying a frontier scene which welcomes visitors to Casper. One of the landmarks which really stands out in Casper is the Wells Fargo Bank.
©All rights reserved by James Krumm. Originally made available at www.caspercomsci.com. Materials here can be used, and redistributed, provided proper reference is made to the origin and author(s) of these materials. Please send any corrections or suggestions to jkrumm@caspercollege.edu. Last modified July 7, 2009.
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