Buying a Home in Cheyenne, WY: Downtown and the Depot, the East Side, Sweetgrass, Pine Bluffs and the Acreage Out in Laramie County

Late in March 2026, Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steamed out of Cheyenne to begin a coast-to-coast tour. It is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world and the only one of the eight surviving Big Boys that still runs, and Cheyenne is its home base, as Union Pacific's own Big Boy page explains. Its sister, No. 4004, is on display across town at Holliday Park, which means two of the eight surviving Big Boys are in a city that the railroad built in the first place. The town's frontier nickname was "Hell on Wheels," earned while Union Pacific built its line west, and the restored depot is still the anchor of downtown.

I'm Jeff Moran, NMLS #483943, a mortgage broker licensed in Wyoming through C2 Financial Corporation, and I have been in the mortgage business since 1996. I work from Bluffton, South Carolina, and I wrote this page for anyone thinking about buying a home in Cheyenne or anywhere else in Laramie County. The whole Cheyenne metro is one county, Laramie County, and your choice here is between a home inside the city of Cheyenne and a home on acreage out in the county. Laramie County is not the city of Laramie, though. The city of Laramie is about 50 miles west, in Albany County, and it is a separate market. This page is about Cheyenne's county only. The facts come from public sources, named beside the ones that matter most, and they were checked in October 2026.

Downtown Cheyenne and the Depot

The Cheyenne Depot Museum is inside the restored Union Pacific depot, and the plaza out front is where downtown gathers for its summer events. The Downtown Development Authority's July 2026 newsletter reports that railcars are now in place downtown for the 15th Street Experience, a project built on the railroad heritage.

New places keep opening around it. Ranch Eats spent years as a local food truck and caterer. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported that it has opened its first brick-and-mortar at 1920 Thomes Avenue, on the ground floor of the City Center Building, serving breakfast and lunch. Hokkaido Ramen House is coming to 1720 Capitol Avenue, in the former Capitol Quisine space, and it will be the first Hokkaido Ramen House in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily reports that the West End Apartments, 101 units, is the first major apartment building completed downtown in many years, with a 97-unit building to follow on the city's east edge.

In May 2026 a new nonprofit of downtown business and property owners, Downtown First, launched out of what used to be the Downtown Development Foundation, according to Cap City News. The older neighborhoods around downtown are home to Cheyenne's three historic districts: Rainsford, Capitol North and Lakeview. Seventeenth Street was once called Cattle Baron's Row, close to the Union Pacific line and the Cheyenne Club. The Living Places entry on the Rainsford district describes its homes as a mix of Italianate, Gothic and Shingle styles, among others. If you like an older home, those three districts are where to look.

Frontier Days, Belvoir Ranch and the rest of the year

Cheyenne Frontier Days calls itself the Daddy of 'em All. The 130th ran July 17 to 26, 2026, and for the first time it included performances on the opening Friday. 9News tallied the 2026 numbers: total attendance was 283,138, up from 249,587 in 2025, across ten rodeo performances and the Frontier Nights concerts.

Belvoir Ranch is about 18,800 acres west of town, and together with the adjacent Big Hole property it belongs to the City of Cheyenne. More than 20 miles of hiking and biking trails opened there on July 1, 2026. The city's Belvoir Ranch page says the trails are open dawn to dusk to hikers and bikers, and it has the rules on e-bikes and the directions to the trailhead.

Happy Jack Road, which is WY-210 on the map, is the scenic route toward Laramie. Curt Gowdy State Park is on it, about 24 miles from Cheyenne, with three reservoirs, Granite Springs, Crystal and Upper North Crow, and more than 35 miles of marked trail, according to Wyoming State Parks. Closer in, Union Pacific locomotive No. 1242 is on display at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, and Tilt, a family entertainment spot, opened inside Frontier Mall in the summer of 2026.

Wyoming's first one-mile horse track, Bally's Cheyenne Park, is nearly built. Its first live meet was scheduled for October 2, 2026. Cap City News reported that the Wyoming Gaming Commission and Bally's jointly pushed it to 2027 to finish construction, testing and inspections.

Cheyenne's neighborhoods and the towns out in the county

South Cheyenne and South Greeley Highway

South Greeley Highway is the road south toward the Colorado line, roughly nine miles from downtown, and it is where most of 2026's land news happened. Microsoft's 3,460 acres are east of the highway and south of the Sweetgrass subdivision. Sweetgrass itself is the big south-side neighborhood. In July 2026 the City Council approved the final plat for A&H Park at Sweetgrass, about 91 acres in six lots, as Cap City News reported. A final plat is the recorded map that fixes the lot lines, so this park is approved and on the books. Forty-five acres are for a community park and 26 for private recreation, with a greenway extension.

Harmony Valley, off West College Drive and West Allison Road on the south side, is where the city rezoned land for housing this year. Cap City News reported in March 2026 that three parcels together cleared more than 400 potential apartment and affordable-housing units. One site is zoned for five 24-unit buildings, a second for 308 affordable units, and a third parcel moved from agricultural to high-density residential. Neighbors raised traffic, school capacity and easements at the hearings.

Fox Farm-College

Fox Farm-College is on the south side, just outside the city limits, with a population just over 3,800. The Census Bureau calls it a census-designated place: a named community that has residents but no town government of its own. Laramie County Community College is there. Cap City News reported on October 1, 2026 that enrollment grew nearly 28% in seven years and that the 2025-26 graduating class was the largest in the college's history. Much of the housing in Fox Farm-College is manufactured homes in their own subdivisions. A manufactured home is financed on its own set of rules. The lender will want to see that the home is on a permanent foundation and titled as real estate together with the land. Not every loan program accepts every age or type of manufactured home, so please tell me early and we can check the home against the program before you write an offer.

East Cheyenne and Dell Range Boulevard

Dell Range Boulevard is the east side's main commercial street. Frontier Mall is at 1400 Dell Range, and 7 Brew's drive-thru coffee opened at 1821 Dell Range this summer. Saddle Ridge, east of Whitney Road between Laramie Street and Countryside Avenue, is the active east-side subdivision. It is being built out in numbered phases, which the city calls filings, and the neighborhood's own builder page lists four local builders working there. If you want a new home on the east side, that is where the lots are.

The Storey Boulevard extension is one of five projects reshaping the east side's road network through 2027, according to the city's East Cheyenne Road Projects page. Dell Range itself is on the city's 2026 street program.

North Cheyenne and Trailhead Estates

Trailhead Estates is the new subdivision with homes planned at prices below the city median. The Wyoming Business Report says Edwards Development Company is building 122 single-family homes southeast of the Converse Avenue and Storey Boulevard intersection. Of those, 86 are planned at 900 to 1,200 square feet, two bedrooms and two baths, at an estimated high $200,000s to low $300,000s. Some of the lots are narrower than the usual minimum, which Cheyenne's code allows for what it calls cottage lots, and the Council's approval of those added eight to ten more lots.

A Dunkin' is coming to the corner of Pershing Boulevard and Ridge Road, with the company aiming for fall 2026. Cap City News notes it will be the first in Wyoming that is neither on F.E. Warren nor inside a gambling facility.

Pine Bluffs, Burns and Albin

East on I-80 at the Nebraska line, Pine Bluffs is the home of the county's second school district. Laramie County School District 2 is based there and serves Pine Bluffs, Burns and Albin, while Laramie County School District 1 covers Cheyenne and 1,592 square miles of southeast Wyoming. A move east across the county changes your school district as well as your school. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported that Michaud Foods started construction in March 2026 on a 36,000-square-foot industrial campus in the Prairie View subdivision near Pine Bluffs. Three tenants are due in by year-end, so there are new jobs coming on the east end of the county.

Burns, with 356 people at the 2020 census, and Albin, with 169, are smaller still, and each has its own District 2 elementary school. All four towns had projects on the 2026 sixth penny ballot.

Rural Laramie County and the 20-acre lots

Out past the city limits, Title 3 of Laramie County's land use regulations sets a 20-acre minimum lot size in three of the county's rural residential zoning districts. Not every rural lot is in one of those districts, though. In September 2026 the county approved two more rural subdivisions, and Cap City News reported that R&R Heights, 319 acres off Horse Creek Road in western Laramie County, was split into 52 lots of 4.5 to more than 10 acres. Walden Hacienda, 27.5 acres in the southeast, was split into four. So a rural lot here can be a few acres or 20 and up, depending on the zoning district the land is in.

The Cheyenne Board of REALTORS' March 2026 report put the rural residential median at nearly twice the city median. Two homes with a Cheyenne mailing address can be in completely different markets depending on which side of the city limits they are on. A rural lot usually means your own well and septic. The Wyoming State Engineer's Office requires a permit before any groundwater well is drilled, on Form U.W.5, and the county's Environmental Health Division issues the septic permit. You'll want to build both into your timeline and your budget before you make an offer on acreage.

The land Cheyenne added in 2026, and the housing that is coming

Cheyenne's footprint grew by about 20% in 2026, and almost none of the new ground is for homes. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported that the City Council approved Microsoft's 3,460-acre annexation for a data-center campus on a 6-3 vote in July 2026, after a meeting that ran past midnight. On September 28, 2026 the Council gave final approval to the 1,260-acre Cox Ranch addition for a SkyBox Data Centers project with developer ViaWest Group, according to Cap City News. The Microsoft annexation is still being contested. A referendum petition launched July 20, 2026, and at the end of September the City Clerk was still verifying signatures against a November 3 deadline. Separately, a resident has asked Laramie County District Court to overturn the annexation.

Meta's data center in High Plains Business Park started its first building in early 2024 and is due to open by 2027. Cheyenne LEADS, the area's economic development group, says it brings about 100 operating jobs and more than 1,000 skilled trades at peak construction. BizWest reports that Related Digital's $1.2 billion campus on Cheyenne Business Parkway has its first building due in late 2026.

Census QuickFacts shows Laramie County went from 100,512 people at the 2020 census to 102,938 in the 2025 estimate, a gain of about 2,400. The city of Cheyenne went from 65,132 to 65,704 by 2024. The new housing in the works includes Harmony Valley's 400-plus units, Trailhead Estates' 122 homes, the 101-unit West End Apartments downtown and the 97-unit building to follow on the east edge. In July 2026 Habitat for Humanity also turned eight homes into housing for 12 families, as Cowboy State Daily reported. A report the Wyoming Tribune Eagle covered projects that the city needs 5,000 to 7,000 more homes by 2030. That projection is based on the workers the data-center and base construction are expected to bring.

The mayor's office says data centers use about 1.2% of Cheyenne's municipal water supply, as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. The city requires water-efficient cooling, and the Board of Public Utilities does not expect a rate increase from future data-center demand. In July 2026 the city found a rare bacterium in its reuse water system, which carries the water used for irrigation. The city traced it to wastewater a Meta contractor drained into the sewer after testing the building's cooling loops. Fortune reported that Meta appealed the violation notice. The city's wells draw on the White River and Ogallala formations of the High Plains Aquifer, and the Ogallala also supplies many residential wells around the city.

Electric service in Cheyenne comes from Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power, a Black Hills subsidiary. WyoFile reported that the 32% Black Hills rate increase in the news this year is a separate request for northeast Wyoming, around Upton and Newcastle, and it does not apply to Cheyenne. Cheyenne's rates for very large power users are written so that a big new customer pays for the costs it creates, and Microsoft has said it will pay for the grid upgrades its campus needs.

Roads, wind, the airport and the train

The I-25 and I-80 interchange, the cloverleaf on the west side of town, is a roughly $500 million project that is still being designed. Wyoming News Now reports that the Wyoming Department of Transportation, WYDOT, is about halfway through the design work, with a September 2027 deadline tied to its federal grant. There is no major construction at the interchange in 2026. Construction is scheduled for fiscal 2031, with the disruptive work not expected before the early 2030s. If you commute through it, you have years before that changes.

The biggest job in the city's 2026 street program is Dell Range Boulevard Phase II on the east side, according to City Engineer Tom Cobb's June 26, 2026 update. On a few smaller streets, Converse Avenue among them, Cap City News reports that crews are patching and repaving and putting in new curbs and gutters.

In April the Council also moved $5 million from reserves toward turning the Reed Avenue rail corridor on the west edge into a walkable district with gathering space and better drainage, as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. If you are looking at homes on the west edge, that corridor is going to change around you.

The wind here is strong enough to close the interstates. On March 12, 2026, wind closed highways and shut the city down for the day, with gusts reported at 90 mph in one Cap City News story and at 100 mph in another the same day. WYDOT's standard move in extreme wind is to close or weight-restrict I-25 and I-80 for light, high-profile vehicles, and its advisories call the hazard blow-over. The stretch of I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie closes to those vehicles several times a winter. If that drive is part of your plan, wyoroad.info is WYDOT's own live road page, and it is worth bookmarking before you move.

Cheyenne Regional Airport has a new 28,000-square-foot terminal with two gates and free on-site parking, and as of September 2026 the schedule is one airline, United operated by SkyWest on 50-seat jets, every flight to Denver International. There is no funded date for passenger rail to reach Cheyenne. Front Range Passenger Rail's phase one, three daily round trips between Denver and Fort Collins by 2029, is funded. Cowboy State Daily reported in August 2026 that both the rail district and Cheyenne officials say the extension north will not happen unless Wyoming builds a funding mechanism. The city is studying two sites for a station.

Schools: the buildings going up and the boundary that moved

Wyoming pays for school construction at the state level, through the State Construction Department's School Facilities Division, so there is no local school bond to vote on here and no bond line on your tax bill. Laramie County School District 1, the largest district in Wyoming at 12,859 students in 2025-26, has three buildings in motion. Mountain View Elementary, a new school for 650 students, started construction in summer 2026 for a fall 2028 opening. ConstructConnect notes it is the district's first campus built specifically for fifth and sixth graders, drawing from ten feeder schools. The board also approved a contract in May 2026 to replace Arp Elementary. Trustees also approved a study recommending a $35.9 million addition to East High rather than a fourth high school, because Central is full and South is at 90% of capacity, as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported.

One boundary moved this year. Deming Elementary closed, and Cap City News reported in February 2026 that the district made Pershing Boulevard the new line: addresses north of Pershing go to Davis Elementary and addresses south of Pershing go to Pioneer Park Elementary. If you are looking near Pershing, please check the district's current attendance map for the exact address.

Hospitals, the VA and F.E. Warren

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center is the metro's main hospital, and it just finished renovating its labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care and intensive care units, according to Davis Partnership, the project's architect. There is no new tower; the work is inside the existing buildings.

The Cheyenne VA Medical Center at 2360 East Pershing Boulevard started construction on August 15, 2025 on a new emergency department that grows from 3,000 to 7,500 square feet. Cap City News reported that care in the new space is expected by 2027, and 24/7 emergency service continues during construction. The Cheyenne VA also manages the Fort Collins VA Clinic across the state line, so a veteran moving up from northern Colorado is often staying inside the same system.

F.E. Warren Air Force Base is the city's largest employer, and it shows in the loan data. Of the 1,790 home purchase loans made in this metro in 2024, 418 were VA loans and 364 were FHA, according to the federal mortgage disclosure data for the county. So more than one in five purchase loans here is a VA loan. The base is also in the middle of the Sentinel missile program. The base's own news says the program's first completed construction project, a building for the Sentinel task force, opened in March 2026, and the Wing Command Center is expected in June 2027. If you are coming on orders, how VA loans work in Wyoming covers entitlement, the funding fee and the three-year residency rule on Wyoming's veterans property tax exemption.

Property tax in Laramie County: the 25% exemption and the eight-month rule

A home in Wyoming is assessed at 9.5% of its fair market value, and the tax rate is applied to that assessed value rather than the full price. That is the reason Wyoming tax bills look small next to the home's price. Then Senate File 69, signed March 4, 2025, took 25% off the assessed value of a single-family home, capped at the first $1 million of market value, starting with tax year 2025, as Wyoming Public Media reported. Starting with tax year 2026, the owner has to actually live in the home at least eight months of the year to get it, with a carve-out for active-duty military who cannot because of their service. So a second home does not get the exemption, an investment property does not get it, and an airman stationed away from a Cheyenne home still can. The Wyoming Property Tax Division's owner-occupied page has the application.

Separately, a cap limits any year-over-year increase in the assessed value of a single-family home's structure to 4%, and for 2025 the Legislature extended it to the land, according to the Laramie County Assessor's page. The cap does not apply when the property changes hands or has structural changes. So when you look at a seller's current tax bill, you may be looking at a number that cap has held down. The Assessor's office, at 309 West 20th Street, Suite 1100, is the place to ask how that resets on a sale. The 2026 assessment notices went out April 15, and an appeal has to be filed within 30 days of the mail date on the notice, so please follow the county's assessment calendar for the current year's dates.

The Legislature is still working on property tax. Wyoming Public Media reported in February 2026 that bills on the homeowner exemption and on removing property tax entirely were moving, so please read anything about Wyoming property tax, including this page, with its date attached.

Sales tax: the sixth penny and the fifth penny

Laramie County's sales tax moved twice in 2026, and you will hear it talked about as the sixth penny and the fifth penny. Each is a 1% county sales tax on top of the state's 4%. The sixth penny pays for a list of projects the voters approve, and the fifth penny pays for general needs like road maintenance, Cheyenne Fire Rescue, the Sheriff's Department and animal control. The rate dropped from 6% to 5% in April 2026 when the old sixth penny ran out. On August 18, 2026 voters passed 13 of the 14 projects on the new one, according to the county's sixth penny page. The one that failed was a remodel of the Cheyenne Municipal Building, as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. Once the new sixth penny starts, the rate goes back to 6%. The fifth penny's renewal is on the November 3, 2026 ballot. All of this is sales tax, so none of it touches your property tax bill.

The stormwater fee, water and sewer, and the closest thing to an impact fee

Cheyenne began charging a stormwater fee on January 1, 2026. Cap City News explained that it is based on hard surface, buildings, driveways and paving, at $0.0024 per square foot. That works out to about $7.30 a month for the average home, with a residential floor of $1.82 and a ceiling of $55.52, and the city published an interactive map so you can look up any parcel. Both Cheyenne and Laramie are defending lawsuits that argue the fee is really a tax the voters should have approved. In February 2026 a bill that would have forced a public vote on the fee died in the state Senate. KGAB reported that a deal was reached at the time under which the two cities would repeal their own fees. As of October 2026 that repeal is still unresolved. Please treat it as a line that may or may not be on your bill next year, and check the city's map for the current answer.

I could not find a residential impact fee in Cheyenne. An impact fee is a one-time charge on new construction that helps pay for the roads and services growth needs, and many growing towns charge one. Cheyenne charges a system development fee instead, on new water and sewer connections, through the Board of Public Utilities. KGAB reported that those fees went up 5% on October 1, 2026 along with water and sewer rates. If you are buying from a builder, please ask whether that fee is already in the price.

Hail, insurance and grass fires

Southeast Wyoming is in Hail Alley, the name insurers and forecasters use for the stretch of the country that gets more hail than most, and insurance premiums in Cheyenne reflect it. Homeowners insurance here generally runs higher than elsewhere in Wyoming, hail damage is usually covered by a standard policy, and a separate hail or wind deductible is common. If you are comparing a Cheyenne payment with a Fort Collins payment, that insurance line is the one most likely to be bigger than you expect. I'd get a quote on the specific address early rather than carrying an estimate into your pre-approval.

Wildfire here means grass fire, because Laramie County is high plains grassland with very little forest. Stage 1 restrictions banning fireworks and outdoor burning have been imposed in dry stretches, and KGAB reported on a grass fire that forced the evacuation of the Winchester Hills area. Your insurance agent can tell you what that means for a specific property.

Flood zones and the Crow Creek basin

Crow Creek runs through the city, and the Crow Creek basin is one of the urbanized storm-drainage basins the city itself identifies as susceptible to flooding in its floodplain management document. Laramie County's interactive map shows the FEMA flood zones, and the county also posts FEMA's flood maps themselves. Those maps mark the high-risk areas as Zone A and the areas outside them as Zone X. I did not find a 2026 map revision, so the maps on file are the ones that apply. If a home is in a Zone A high-risk area, your lender will require flood insurance and the premium becomes part of your monthly payment. I explain how to price that in before you make an offer in buying a home in a flood zone.

Radon, seller disclosure and the inspection

Laramie County is in EPA Radon Zone 1, the highest category. The American Lung Association's Wyoming report counted 1,834 pre-mitigation tests in the county, more than any other Wyoming county. The mean was 3.8 picocuries per liter, and 22% of tested homes came in at or above the EPA action level of 4. A new build is not exempt, so a radon test is a routine inspection item here and a mitigation system is a routine negotiation item.

Wyoming has no law requiring a seller to hand you a formal disclosure statement, and Wyoming courts enforce the buyer-beware language in purchase contracts, according to Nolo's summary of the state's rules. A seller still has to disclose known material defects that affect value or safety, and a licensed agent has to disclose adverse material facts they actually know. In practice the inspection carries most of your protection here, so please give it the time it needs and include radon, the roof and, on acreage, the well and septic.

Covenants, HOAs and closing costs

Wyoming has no standalone HOA law, which is unusual among states. The Homeowners Protection Bureau's Wyoming summary explains that outside of condominiums, which have their own Wyoming act, the rules for a neighborhood association come from the covenants recorded against the land. So before you buy in a covenanted neighborhood, please ask the seller or the association for the recorded declaration of covenants and read it yourself. It tells you what the assessments are, what the association can fine you for, what you can and cannot do with the home, and the lien the association can place if the assessments go unpaid. Those obligations pass to you with the deed, and no Wyoming law makes the association hand you a summary before closing, so the declaration itself is what you have to go on.

Wyoming has no state real estate transfer tax and no state income tax, so neither shows up when you buy or when you later sell. The Wyoming page covers the rest of the closing structure, including the fact that the purchase agreement does most of the deciding about who pays what, and pre-approval in Wyoming covers what that means when you write an offer.

Prices, loan limits and your monthly payment

The Cheyenne Board of REALTORS put the city residential median at $369,000 in March 2026, up 3.9% in a year, and the rural residential median at $699,975, up 13.8%, as the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. The 2026 conforming and FHA limits for Laramie County are in the box below this article. The conforming limit is the largest loan Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy in a county, and a loan above it is a jumbo loan. The FHA limit here is the lowest FHA limit allowed anywhere in the country, and every Wyoming county has that same limit. Inside the city, neither limit comes into play for most purchases. Out on acreage, a purchase near the rural median can cross the FHA limit while staying under the conforming one, so the program that fits changes with the address. The page on conforming versus jumbo loans explains what changes when a loan crosses that limit.

The monthly payment a lender qualifies you on includes principal and interest, property tax after the exemption, homeowners insurance, flood insurance if the map requires it, and any covenant dues. If you are keeping the home as a second home or an investment property, the eight-month rule on the homeowner exemption means the tax line is different. I explain how the loan itself differs in second home versus investment property.

You can run your numbers for a Laramie County purchase whenever you're ready: rates for your scenario and Wyoming closing costs, with no credit pull and no account. Choose the rate option that works best for you, and the application opens from there; the selection can change later.

Nothing here is a loan approval, a denial or a commitment to lend, and it is not tax advice. The assessed value of a specific parcel and whether it gets the homeowner exemption are set by the Laramie County Assessor, so please confirm them with that office.

Common questions

Is Laramie County the same as the city of Laramie?

No. Laramie County is the county Cheyenne is in, and it is the whole Cheyenne metro. The city of Laramie is about 50 miles west in Albany County, a separate market with its own school district and its own prices. Laramie Street is just a street in east Cheyenne.

Is Cheyenne growing fast?

The city's land area grew about 20% in 2026 through the Microsoft annexation, and the county's population grew about 2,400 people between the 2020 census and the 2025 estimate. The growth you read about is industrial land and investment, and the housing pipeline is a separate, smaller list: Harmony Valley, Trailhead Estates, the West End Apartments and the rural subdivisions the county approved this year.

Does Wyoming's 25% homeowner exemption apply to a second home in Cheyenne?

From tax year 2026 the owner has to live in the home at least eight months of the year, so a second home or an investment property does not get it. Active-duty servicemembers who cannot meet the residency test because of their service are carved out. The Wyoming Property Tax Division handles the application.

Is the I-25/I-80 interchange in Cheyenne under construction?

Not in 2026. The design work is still underway, with the Wyoming Department of Transportation about halfway through and a September 2027 deadline on the design grant. Construction is scheduled for fiscal 2031, with the disruptive work expected in the early 2030s.

Does I-80 really close between Cheyenne and Laramie?

Yes, to light, high-profile vehicles in extreme wind, several times a winter. The Wyoming Department of Transportation closes or weight-restricts I-25 and I-80 when gusts make blow-over likely, and its wyoroad.info page shows live conditions.

Which school district is a Cheyenne-area home in?

Laramie County School District 1 covers Cheyenne and most of the county, and Laramie County School District 2, based in Pine Bluffs, serves Pine Bluffs, Burns and Albin. Inside District 1, Pershing Boulevard became a boundary in 2026 when Deming Elementary closed, with addresses north of it zoned to Davis Elementary and south of it to Pioneer Park Elementary. Please check the district's current map for the exact address.

Will the data centers raise my electric bill in Cheyenne?

Cheyenne is served by Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power, a Black Hills subsidiary. The 32% Black Hills increase in the news applies to northeast Wyoming, around Upton and Newcastle. Cheyenne's rates for very large power users are written so that a big new customer pays for the costs it creates, and Microsoft has said it will pay for the upgrades its campus needs.

Do I need a radon test on a new home in Cheyenne?

Yes. Laramie County is in EPA Radon Zone 1, and 22% of the homes tested there before mitigation came in at or above the EPA action level. A new build is not exempt, so a test is a routine inspection item and a mitigation system is a routine negotiation item.