Interstate 80 in Wyoming

This article is about the section of Interstate 80 in Wyoming. For the entire route, see Interstate 80.

Interstate 80 marker

Interstate 80
Route information
Maintained by WYDOT
Length: 402.780 mi[1] (648.212 km)
Major junctions
West end: I-80 / US-189 at the Utah state line near Evanston
 
East end: I-80 at the Nebraska state line in Pine Bluffs
Location
Counties: Uinta, Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany, Laramie
Highway system

State highways in Wyoming

WYO 78US 85

Interstate 80 (I-80) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from San Francisco to Teaneck, New Jersey. In Wyoming, the Interstate Highway runs 402.780 miles (648.212 km) from the Utah state line near Evanston east to the Nebraska state line in Pine Bluffs. I-80 connects Cheyenne, Wyoming's capital and largest city, with several smaller cities along the southern tier of Wyoming, including Evanston, Green River, Rock Springs, Rawlins, and Laramie. The highway also connects those cities with Salt Lake City to the west and Omaha to the east. In Cheyenne, I-80 intersects I-25 and has Wyoming's only auxiliary Interstate, I-180. The Interstate runs concurrently with U.S. Route 30 (US 30) for most of their courses in Wyoming. I-80 also has shorter concurrencies with US 189 near Evanston, US 191 near Rock Springs, and US 287 and Wyoming Highway 789 (WYO 789) near Rawlins. The Interstate has business loops through all six cities along its course as well as a loop serving Fort Bridger and Lyman east of Evanston.

Route description

Evanston to Rock Springs

I-80 enters Uinta County concurrent with US 189 from Summit County, Utah, west of Evanston, the county seat of Uinta County. The Interstate parallels the Union Pacific Railroad's Evanston Subdivision rail line to Yellow Creek, east of which the railroad parallels the creek northeast and the highway heads east into the city of Evanston. I-80 Bus. and US 189 Bus. split northeast onto Harrison Drive. I-80 has an interchange with WYO 150 (Front Street) just south of downtown Evanston and cross over the railroad line and the Bear River shortly before the business routes, which use Bear River Drive) rejoin the Interstate on the eastern edge of the city. I-80 and US 189 continue east through interchanges with Painter Road and Divide Road before the U.S. Highway splits northeast toward Kemmerer.[1]

I-80 continues east through interchanges with Coal Road and Bar Hat Road and crosses over the Union Pacific rail line just west of the Leroy Road interchange. The highway has more minor junctions with French Road, Bigelow Road, and Union Road before I-80 Bus. splits southeast toward Fort Bridger. I-80 parallels Blacks Fork of the Green River through interchanges with WYO 412 and WYO 414 north of Mountain View and WYO 413 north of Lyman before crossing over the river. The Interstate crosses over Smiths Fork, a tributary of Blacks Fork, before I-80 Bus. rejoins the mainline. I-80 has a junction with Church Butte Road before entering Sweetwater County. The highway meets the western end of WYO 374 south of Granger and has a trumpet interchange with US 30, which joins the Interstate in the first of several concurrencies east to Nebraska. A second segment of WYO 374 begins at the first interchange east of US 30 that serves Little America.[1]

Green River Tunnel in Green River, Wyoming, one of three sets of tunnels along the interstate from California to New Jersey

I-80 and US 30 parallel WYO 374 through a junction with Westvaco Road, across Blacks Fork again, and across the railroad before an interchange with WYO 374 and WYO 372. The Interstate has an interchange with Covered Wagon Road just west of its crossing of the Green River at James Town. I-80 and US 30 parallel the river and WYO 374 to the city of Green River, the county seat of Sweetwater County. The highway has trumpet interchanges with I-80 Bus. and US 30 Bus. on either side of the city; between the interchanges, the Interstate passes through the dual Green River Tunnel. The business route connects I-80 with WYO 530 (Uinta Drive). East of town, the highways follow Bitter Creek along the southern flank of White Mountain. US 191 joins I-80 and US 30 at Purple Sage; the three highways continue into the city of Rock Springs. I-80 Bus. and US 30 Bus. split east onto Dewar Drive. The mainline Interstate has partial cloverleaf interchanges with College Drive, which serves Western Wyoming Community College, and Elk Street, which US 191 joins to head north. The business routes, here named Pilot Butte Avenue, rejoin I-80 and US 30 on the east side of the city.[1]

Rock Springs to Laramie

I-80 and US 30 continue east from Rock Springs parallel to the Union Pacific's Rawlins Subdivision and Bitter Creek. The Interstate has interchanges with WYO 370, which leads south to Rock Springs–Sweetwater County Airport; and WYO 371, which heads north toward Superior; and WYO 372 at Point of Rocks. At Point of Rocks, I-80 and US 30 veer away from the railroad and Bitter Creek and cross the Red Desert. Within the desert, the Interstate has interchanges with a string of minor roads: Black Butte Road, Red Hill Road, Bitter Creek Road, Patrick Draw Road, Table Rock Road, Bar X Road, BLM Road, GL Road, Tipton Road, an exit simply labelled Red Desert, and Rasmussen Road. The only place of significance within this stretch is Table Rock, where the highway rejoins the railroad and enters the Great Divide Basin, an endorheic basin between two branches of the Continental Divide. I-80 and US 30 pass by the only town in the basin, Wamsutter, which is accessed by an interchange with Kelly Street. The freeway has a junction with Continental Divide Road and an interchange with WYO 789, which joins the Interstate eastbound.[1]

I-80, US 30, and WYO 789 intersect Riner Road before entering Carbon County. The freeway continues through minor interchanges with Daley Road, Knobs Road, Hadsell Road, and Johnson Road; the freeway leaves the Great Divide Basin and enters the Mississippi River watershed west of Hadsell Road. WYO 789, I-80 Bus., and US 30 Bus. split from I-80 and US 30 at the west end of the city of Rawlins, the county seat of Carbon County. The Interstate crosses over the Rawlins Subdivison rail line and has an interchange with WYO 71 (Higley Boulevard). I-80 and US 30 cross back to the north side of the railroad and have a trumpet interchange with the two business routes and US 287, which joins the freeway heading east from Rawlins; WYO 76 splits east from the eastbound loop of the interchange. The Interstate has a trumpet interchange with Lincoln Avenue at the west end of Sinclair, then crosses over the railroad and WYO 76. I-80 and the two U.S. Highways meet the eastern end of WYO 76 east of Sinclair. The three highways cross the North Platte River just east of the Fort Steele interchange.[1]

US 30 and US 287 diverge from I-80 southwest of Hanna; WYO 130 heads south from the same interchange. I-80 continue east along the northern edge of the Medicine Bow Mountains and has junctions with Peterson Road and WYO 72, then crosses the Medicine Bow River. The Interstate continues through interchanges with Elk Mountain Medicine Bow Road, Wagonhound Road, and WYO 13 at Arlington, where the freeway crosses Rock Creek. I-80 intersects Cooper Cove Road before entering Albany County. The Interstate has interchanges with Quealy Dome Road and WYO 12 (Herrick Lane) around its crossing of the Little Laramie River. I-80 passes along the southern edge of Bamforth National Wildlife Refuge before entering Laramie, the county seat of Albany County. The freeway enters the city from the north, and I-80 Bus. splits east along Curtis Street. I-80 has interchanges with WYO 130 and WYO 230 (Snowy Range Road) and with US 287 (Third Street) and crossings of the Laramie River and the Union Pacific Railroad's Laramie Subdivision as it curves east. The Interstate receives its business route and US 30 at a trumpet interchange on the eastern edge of the city.[1]

Laramie to Pine Bluffs

East of Laramie, I-80 and US 30 head southeast and cross the Laramie Mountains. The two highways reach their national high point at Sherman Summit, where they have an interchange with WYO 210 (Happy Jack Road). I-80 and US 30 have interchanges with Vedauwoo Road and Buford Road, the latter at the settlement of Buford just before the freeway enters Laramie County. The Interstate and U.S. highways rejoin the railroad and pass through minor junctions with Remount Road, Harriman Road, and Warren Road. I-80 and US 30 meet the western end of WYO 225 (Otto Road), which they parallel east to Cheyenne. The two highways have an interchange with WYO 222 (Roundtop Road) just west of a three-ramp partial cloverleaf interchange with the eastern end of WYO 225 (Otto Road) and the western end of I-80 Bus. (Lincolnway), onto which US 30 exits. The missing movement from the surface highway to eastbound I-80 is made via the business route's nearby interchange with I-25 and US 87.[1]

I-80 continues east across the Union Pacific Railroad to a full cloverleaf interchange with I-25 and US 87, where the highway enters the city of Cheyenne, the county seat and state capital. The Interstate crosses over a BNSF Railway line and has a diamond interchange with US 85 and the southern end of I-180, a non-freeway spur into downtown Cheyenne. East of I-180, I-80 receives the eastern end of its business route at its junction with WYO 212 (College Drive). East of its interchange with Campstool Road, the freeway leaves the city of Cheyenne and collects the eastern end of US 30 (Archer Boulevard). I-80 and US 30 have interchanges serves Hillsdale and Egbert around a junction with WYO 213 and WYO 214, which serve Burns and Carpenter, respectively. I-80 and US 30 reapproach the Union Pacific Railroad's Sidney Subdivision east of Burns and parallel it to Pine Bluffs, the easternmost town in Wyoming. There, US 30 splits north and immediately meets the southern terminus of WYO 215. At the eastern town limit of Pine Bluffs, I-80 enters Kimball County, Nebraska.[1]

Exit list

CountyLocationmi[1]kmExitDestinationsNotes
Uinta 0.0000.000 I-80 west / US-189 south Salt Lake City, Ogden, Heber City, ProvoWestern terminus of I-80 in Wyoming; Utah state line
Evanston3.4535.5573
I-80 Bus. east / US 189 Bus. north to WYO 89 (Harrison Drive)
5.2638.4705 WYO 89 north / WYO 150 south (Front Street)
6.25710.0706
I-80 Bus. west / US 189 Bus. south to WYO 89 (Bear River Drive)
 10.68317.19310Painter Road
 13.86222.30913Divide Road
 18.29329.44018 US 189 north KemmererEast end of concurrency with US 189
 21.75135.00521Coal Road
 23.12037.20823Bar Hat Road
 23.90638.47324Leroy Road
 28.71346.20928French Road
 30.39848.92130Bigelow Road
 33.18253.40133Union Road
 34.74155.91034 I-80 Bus. east Fort Bridger
 39.89664.20639 WYO 412 north / WYO 414 south Carter, Mountain View
 41.98767.57241 WYO 413 south Lyman
 48.30377.73648 I-80 Bus. west Lyman, Fort Bridger
 53.30685.78853Church Butte Road
Sweetwater 61.59199.12161 WYO 374 east (Cedar Mountain Road) Granger
Little America66.120106.41066 US 30 west Kemmerer, PocatelloWest end of concurrency with US 30
68.972111.00068 WYO 374 east Little America
 72.296116.34972Westvaco Road
James Town83.007133.58783 WYO 374 / WYO 372 (La Barge Road)
85.697137.91685Covered Wagon Road
Green River89.445143.94889
I-80 Bus. east / US 30 Bus. east / WYO 374 to WYO 530 Green River
91.532147.30691
I-80 Bus. west / US 30 Bus. west to WYO 530 Green River
Purple Sage99.138159.54799 US 191 south (East Flaming Gorge Road)West end of concurrency with US 191
Rock Springs102.358164.729102
I-80 Bus. (Dewar Drive) / US 30 Bus. east
103.819167.080103College Drive
104.825168.699104 US 191 north (Elk Street)East end of concurrency with US 191
107.056172.290107
I-80 Bus. / US 30 Bus. (Pilot Butte Avenue) to WYO 430
 111.161178.896111 WYO 370 south (Airport Road) / Baxter Road Rock Springs–Sweetwater County Airport
 122.272196.778122 WYO 371 north Superior
Point of Rocks130.840210.567130 WYO 377 east Point of Rocks
 136.958220.413136Black Butte Road
 139.509224.518139Red Hill Road
 142.170228.800142Bitter Creek Road
 146.848236.329146Patrick Draw Road
Table Rock150.807242.700150Table Rock Road
152.455245.353152Bar X Road
154.055247.927154BLM Road
156.025251.098156GL Road
158.545255.153158Tipton Road
 165.582266.478165Red Desert
 170.676274.676170Rasmussen Road
Wamsutter173.413279.081173Kelly Street  Wamsutter
 184.288296.583184Continental Divide Road
 187.204301.276187 WYO 789 south – Creston Junction, BaggsWest end of concurrency with WYO 789
 196.157315.684196Riner Road
Carbon 201.164323.742201Daley Road
 204.175328.588204Knobs Road
 206.182331.818206Hadsell Road
 209.459337.092209Johnson Road
Rawlins211.780340.827211
I-80 Bus. / US 30 Bus. east / WYO 789 north to US 287 Rawlins
East end of concurrency with WYO 789
214.111344.578214 WYO 71 south (Higley Boulevard)
215.570346.926215
I-80 Bus. / US 30 Bus. west / US 287 north to WYO 789 Rawlins
West end of concurrency with US 287
Sinclair219.594353.402219Lincoln Avenue  Sinclair
221.926357.155221 WYO 76 west Sinclair
 228.341367.479228Fort Steele
 235.280378.646235 US 30 east / US 287 south / WYO 130 east Walcott, SaratogaEast end of concurrencies with US 30 and US 287
 238.150383.265238Peterson Road
 255.602411.352255 WYO 72 Hanna, Elk Mountain
 260.232418.803260County Road 402 (Elk Mountain Medicine Bow Road)
 267.186429.994267Wagonhound Road
Arlington272.056437.832272 WYO 13 north Arlington
 279.859450.389279Cooper Cove Road
Albany 290.438467.415290Quealy Dome Road
 297.663479.042297 WYO 12 (Herrick Lane)
Laramie310.452499.624310 I-80 Bus. east (Curtis Street)
311.756501.723311 WYO 130 / WYO 230 (Snowy Range Road)
313.191504.032313 US 287 (Third Street) Fort Collins
316.702509.682316 I-80 Bus. / US 30 west (Grand Avenue)West end of concurrency with US 30
Sherman Summit323.049519.897323 WYO 210 east (Happy Jack Road)Highest point on I-80
 329.316529.983329Vedauwoo Road
Buford335.106539.301335Buford Road  Buford
Laramie 339.317546.078339Remount Road
 342.560551.297342Harriman Road
 345.501556.030345Warren Road
 348.363560.636348 WYO 225 east (Otto Road)
 357.680575.630357 WYO 222 (Roundtop Road)
Cheyenne358.076576.267358 I-80 Bus. / US 30 east (Lincolnway) / WYO 225 west (Otto Road)No eastbound entrance; east end of concurrency with US 30
359.599578.718359 I-25 / US 87 Casper, Fort CollinsSplit into exits 359A (south) and 359C (north); I-25 exits 8B-D
362.037582.642362 I-180 north / US 85 (Central Avenue) Greeley
364.000585.801364 I-80 Bus. west (College Drive) / WYO 212 / to Lincolnway
367.424591.312367Campstool Road
370.394596.091370 US 30 west (Archer Boulevard)West end of concurrency with US 30
 377.353607.291377Hillsdale
 386.389621.833386 WYO 213 north / WYO 214 south Burns, Carpenter
 391.385629.873391Egbert
Pine Bluffs401.456646.081401 US 30 east to WYO 215 Pine BluffsEast end of concurrency with US 30
402.780648.212 I-80 east Sidney, OmahaEastern terminus of I-80 in Wyoming; Nebraska state line
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Business routes

I-80 has seven Interstate business loops in Wyoming:

References

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

Interstate 80
Previous state:
Utah
Wyoming Next state:
Nebraska
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