- The list below includes 19 free or cheap things to do in or near Laramie, Wyoming, including 27 different types of inexpensive activities like History Museums, Hiking Trails, Bowling and Movie Theaters.
- From Medicine Bow National Forest to Vedauwoo, there are a variety of budget-friendly attractions in Laramie and in nearby cities within 25 miles like Cheyenne.
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Experience a range of outdoor activities in the Medicine Bow National Forest, from hiking and biking to camping, fishing and hunting against a scenic mountain backdrop.
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One of the first mountainous areas in southeast Wyoming to complete spring snow melt is Vedauwoo Recreation Area on Pole Mountain. The area has a campground, and is popular with rock climbers, hikers, mountain bikers who love to explore the two Vedawoo rocks that legend says playful spirits planted.
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The University of Wyoming is the only four-year learning institution in the state of Wyoming. Approximately 13,800 students from all 50 states and 90 countries attend the campus with 200 different focuses.
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2468 Jackson Road, Laramie, WY 82070
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Giving visitors a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains, Spruce Mountain Fire Lookout Tower is a camping spot that is over 55 feet high. Visitors can spot rivers, forests, and even wildlife like foxes and deer from this lookout.
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Patrons at Wyoming Territorial Park can tour the museum that was once Wyoming Territorial Prison in the late 1800s, and housed a number of famous outlaws including Butch Cassidy. Visitors can choose either a guided or self-guided tour.
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Laramie's Plains Lakes offer opportunities for a wide variety of activities. Visitors can fish, wind surf, hunt for ducks and geese, boat, or simply take in the natural scenery and wild life.
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Home to the Laramie Plains Museum, Ivinson Mansion is a historic restoration of an 1882 Victorian-style mansion first owned by the Ivinson family, and later used as a girls' boarding school of the Episcopal Church.
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975 Snowy Range Rd, Laramie, WY
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From 1872 to 1903, this site served as the Wyoming Territorial Prison housing such notorious criminals as Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Elijah Cassidy, before becoming an agricultural research center for the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture who operated the facility until 1989.Visitors can se…
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1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071
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The University of Wyoming Geological Museum contains information about dinosaurs including a 75-foot Apatosaurus skeleton, and the most complete Allosaurus fossil is existence. The museum also contains large murals and a copper plated Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Housed in the historic Ivinson Mansion, Laramie Plains Museum documents Wyoming pioneer history through the life and works of the Ivinson family. Guided tours fill in the story through the mansion's twenty three rooms.