Wyoming Facts

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.

Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.

Yellowstone grew a brand new thermal pool over the winter of 2024-25. Nobody saw it happen. Scientists returned to Norris Geyser Basin that April. They found a 13-foot-wide, ice-blue pool that had not been there before. The water was 109 degrees, about as hot as a bath. Sound sensors later traced its birth to tiny explosions in December, January, and February. It had been buried under snow the whole time.

Mouse, a quarter horse, went missing on a backcountry trip in Wyoming in July 2025. He vanished into the Wind River Range, a rugged stretch of mountains near Moon Lake. He survived completely alone through the entire winter. A snowmobiler finally found him alive seven months later. Rescuers floated him out in a whitewater raft towed behind a snowmobile.