I-25 highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained byWYDOT | ||||
Length | 300.530 mi[1] (483.656 km) | |||
Existed | 1964–present | |||
NHS | Entire route | |||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Wyoming | |||
Counties | Laramie,Platte,Converse,Natrona,Johnson | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Interstate 25 (I-25) is a part of theInterstate Highway System that runs fromLas Cruces, New Mexico, toBuffalo, Wyoming. InWyoming, the Interstate Highway runs 300.530 miles (483.656 km) from theColorado state line nearCheyenne north to its national terminus atI-90 near Buffalo. I-25 connects Wyoming's largest city and capital, Cheyenne, with its second largest city,Casper, and the smaller communities ofWheatland,Douglas, and Buffalo. The highway also connects those cities withDenver andBillings via I-90. I-25runs concurrently withU.S. Route 87 (US 87) for almost its entire course in Wyoming. The highway also has extensive concurrencies withUS 20 andUS 26 along its east–west segment through theNorth Platte River valley. The Interstate hasbusiness loops through Cheyenne,Chugwater, Wheatland, Douglas,Glenrock, Casper, and Buffalo.
I-25 entersLaramie County concurrent with US 87 fromWeld County, Colorado, southwest of Cheyenne and briefly runs parallel to aBNSF Railway line. The four-lane Interstate has its first interchange, adiamond interchange, withWyoming Highway 223 (WYO 223, Terry Ranch Road), and crosses over theUnion Pacific Railroad'sSpeer Subdivision rail line and over the BNSF rail line. I-25 meets High Plains Road at adumbbell interchange, then has adiverging diamond interchange withWYO 212 (College Drive), a junction that serves as the southern end ofInterstate 25 Business (I-25 Bus.). The freeway has acloverleaf interchange withI-80, crosses over the Union Pacific'sLaramie Subdivision andUS 30 (Lincolnway), and has a four-ramppartial cloverleaf interchange with US 30, which here is also part ofI-80 Bus.[1]
I-25 continues north along the western edge of the city of Cheyenne and along the eastern edge ofFrancis E. Warren Air Force Base, which is served by the next three interchanges. The highway has a five-ramp partial cloverleaf interchange with Missile Drive, crosses over a BNSF rail yard, and has a diamond interchange with Randall Road, which leads to Pershing Boulevard. I-25 reconnects with its business route at Central Avenue, whereUS 85 joins the Interstate. The freeway has a dumbbell interchange with Vandehei Street before leaving the city of Cheyenne and passing through the unincorporated area ofRanchettes. I-25 has an interchange withWYO 211 (Horse Creek Road) before US 85 splits to the northeast. There is no direct access from southbound I-25 to northbound US 85 at the latter interchange; southbound traffic uses the WYO 211 interchange to turn around to access northbound US 85.[1]
I-25 continues through sparsely populated northern Laramie County, where the Interstate crossesLodgepole Creek and has five interchanges with minor roads: Ridley Road, an unnamed road only marked as exit 25, Whitaker Road, Nimmo Road, and an unnamed road that serves the Little Bear Community. The Interstate entersPlatte County at its interchange with Bear Creek Road. I-25's first population center north of Cheyenne is Chugwater, where the highway crosses over a BNSF rail line andChugwater Creek, has an interchange withWYO 211 andWYO 313 in town, and has an interchange withWYO 321 (Ty Basin Road) north of town. Those two interchanges serve as the termini for Chugwater'sI-25 Bus. The Interstate meets the western end ofWYO 314 (Slater Road) west ofSlater; has minor interchanges with Hunton Road, Antelope Road, and Bordeaux Road; and meets the eastern end ofWYO 34.[1]
I-25's next serves the town of Wheatland, thecounty seat of Platte County. Wheatland'sI-25 Bus. splits off onto Mariposa Boulevard and provides access toWYO 310 andWYO 312. The Interstate and business route reconvene at the north end of town. I-25 has minor interchanges with Laramie River Road near its crossing of theLaramie River and with Johnson Road. The Interstate meets US 26 at adirectional T interchange atDwyer Junction, and the U.S. Route joins I-25 and US 87 heading north. I-25 has minor interchanges with El Rancho Road and an unnamed access road to Middle Bear around a junction with the southern end ofWYO 319 (Cassa Road). The Interstate has an interchange withWyoming Highway 319 Spur (WYO 319 Spur) in the town ofGlendo, then parallels WYO 319 and the BNSF rail line northwest intoConverse County to the west of theGlendo Reservoir, an impoundment of the North Platte River. I-25 crosses over the North Platte River and a BNSF rail line atOrin, where the Interstate has an interchange with and is joined by US 20; this interchange serves as the western terminus ofUS 18.[1]
I-25, US 87, US 20, and US 26 head west to Douglas, the county seat of Converse County.I-25 Bus. and its companion business routes—US 87 Bus.,US 20 Bus., andUS 26 Bus.—split northwest from atrumpet interchange into the city while I-25 and the mainline U.S. Routes pass to the south of the city. I-25 crosses over the BNSF rail line and the North Platte River, then curves northwest to meet the business routes at a trumpet interchange on the west side of the city near the business routes' intersection withWYO 59, which leads north toGillette. I-25 continues west through interchanges with the western end ofWYO 96 (La Prele Road), Inez Road, the road south toAyres Natural Bridge, Barber Road, and Bixby Road. US 87, US 20, and US 26 diverge from I-25 east of Glenrock.I-25 Bus. joins the U.S. Routes in heading northwest toward the town, then reconnects with I-25 viaWYO 95 (Deer Creek Road) south of town. I-25 entersNatrona County and has interchanges withWYO 253 (Hat Six Road) andWYO 258 (Wyoming Boulevard), which serves the town ofEvansville to the north.[1]
I-25 briefly parallels US 87, US 20, and US 26 (Yellowstone Highway) and enters the city of Casper at a complex junction—the complexity is explained in the description forI-25 Bus.—where the Interstate crosses over Yellowstone Highway, the three U.S. Routes join I-25, I-25 Bus. splits from the Interstate to serve downtown Casper, andUS 87 Bus.,US 20 Bus., andUS 26 Bus. split from the mainline U.S. Routes on Yellowstone Avenue. I-25, US 87, US 20, and US 26 cross over the BNSF rail line and are paralleled by a pair of frontage roads, F Street to the north and E Street to the south. There are several slip ramps between I-25 and the frontage roads serving the three streets that connect the portion of Casper north of the BNSF rail line to downtown Casper. The first street, which is Bryan Stock Trail north of the Interstate and Beverly Street to the south, is part of the complex junction between the mainline Interstate and U.S. Routes and their business routes. The second street is McKinley Street, and the third street is Center Street and carries the northmost portion of I-25 Bus. and US 87 Bus. E Street begins from an exit ramp to Center Street as I-25 and F Street cross the North Platte River. West of the river, the freeway has a diamond interchange withWYO 220 (Poplar Street), then curves north and has a diamond interchange with US 20 and US 26, which split west towardShoshoni andCasper–Natrona County International Airport, and the access road to theCasper Events Center.[1]
I-25 leaves the city of Casper and has an interchange withWYO 254 (Wardwell Road) next to unincorporatedHartrandt and the town ofBar Nunn. The Interstate has an interchange with Ormsby Road in theHoma Hills area on the northern edge of the Casper populated area. I-25 has minor interchanges with Ranch Road and an unnamed road marketed as exit 223, then connects with the south end ofWYO 387, which servesMidwest to the east, before enteringJohnson County. The freeway has interchanges with Tisdale Mountain Road and Powder River Road just north of the highway's crossing of the South Fork of thePowder River. I-25 meets the southern end ofWYO 196 (TTT Road) and parallels the state highway toKaycee, where the highway crosses the Middle Fork of the Powder River and has an interchange withWYO 191. North of Kaycee, I-25 crosses the North Fork of the Powder River and has minor interchanges with Reno Road, Middle Fork Road, and Trabing Road and a crossings of two branches ofCrazy Woman Creek near the Middle Fork interchange. The finalI-25 Bus. and its companion,US 87 Bus., split off to the south of the town of Buffalo, the county seat of Johnson County. East of the town, I-25 has an interchange withUS 16, which also carriesI-90 Bus. The Interstate reaches its northern terminus at a directional T interchange with I-90. US 87 continues north along westbound I-90 towardSheridan and Billings; I-90 also heads east toward Gillette. Buffalo's I-25 Bus. and US 87 Bus. have their northern terminuses at a partial interchange just west of the I-25/I-90 junction.[1]
The first section of I-25 to be built with funds from theFederal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was a section near Cheyenne, which commenced in 1958.[2] Earlier funds from the state government had been used to begin work on a freeway bypass of Casper in 1953; its first 3-mile (4.8 km) section was opened to traffic on October 1, 1960.[3] The final section of the freeway, spanning 26 miles (42 km) between Casper and Kaycee, was opened on February 2, 1982.[4][5]
County | Location | mi[1] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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Laramie | | 0.000 | 0.000 | ![]() ![]() | Continuation intoColorado | |
| 2.662 | 4.284 | 2 | ![]() ![]() | ||
| 4 | High Plains Road | Dumbbell interchange | |||
| 7.857 | 12.645 | 7 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Diverging diamond interchange | |
| 8.844 | 14.233 | 8 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Split into exits 8B (west) and 8D (east); I-80 exits 359A-C | |
Cheyenne | 9.140 | 14.709 | 9 | ![]() ![]() | ||
10.586 | 17.037 | 10D | Missile Drive –Warren Gate 2 | Split into exits 10B (Warren Gate 2) and 10D (Missile Drive) southbound | ||
11.239 | 18.087 | 11 | Randall Avenue, Pershing Boulevard –Warren Gate 1 | |||
12.697 | 20.434 | 12 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of concurrency with US 85 | ||
13.834 | 22.264 | 13 | Vandehei Avenue | Dumbbell interchange | ||
Ranchettes | 16.230 | 26.120 | 16 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | US 85 north not signed northbound | |
17.236 | 27.739 | 17 | ![]() ![]() | No southbound exit; north end of concurrency with US 85 | ||
| 21.318 | 34.308 | 21 | Ridley Road | ||
| 25.452 | 40.961 | 25 | Exit 25 | ||
| 29.512 | 47.495 | 29 | Whitaker Road | ||
| 34.440 | 55.426 | 34 | Nimmo Road | ||
| 39.235 | 63.143 | 39 | Little Bear Community | ||
Laramie–Platte county line | | 47.248 | 76.038 | 47 | Bear Creek Road | |
Platte | Chugwater | 54.590 | 87.854 | 54 | ![]() ![]() | |
| 57.649 | 92.777 | 57 | ![]() | ||
| 65.253 | 105.015 | 65 | ![]() ![]() | ||
| 66.200 | 106.539 | 66 | Hunton Road | ||
| 68.454 | 110.166 | 68 | Antelope Road | ||
| 70.621 | 113.653 | 70 | Bordeaux Road | ||
| 73.025 | 117.522 | 73 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Wheatland | 78.600 | 126.494 | 78 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
80.853 | 130.120 | 80 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
| 84.744 | 136.382 | 84 | Laramie River Road | ||
| 87.505 | 140.826 | 87 | Johnson Road | ||
Dwyer Junction | 92.371 | 148.657 | 92 | ![]() ![]() | Directional T interchange; south end of concurrency with US 26 | |
| 94.825 | 152.606 | 94 | El Rancho Road | ||
| 100.125 | 161.136 | 100 | Cassa Road (WYO 319) | Southern terminus of WYO 319 | |
| 104.043 | 167.441 | 104 | Middle Bear | ||
Glendo | 111.675 | 179.723 | 111 | WYO 319 Spur –Glendo | ||
Converse | Orin | 126.467 | 203.529 | 126 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of concurrency with US 20; western terminus of US 18 |
Douglas | 135.472 | 218.021 | 135 | ![]() ![]() | ||
140.101 | 225.471 | 140 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
| 146.003 | 234.969 | 146 | ![]() ![]() | ||
| 150.442 | 242.113 | 150 | Inez Road | ||
| 151.166 | 243.278 | 151 | Ayres Natural Bridge | ||
| 154.237 | 248.220 | 154 | Barber Road | ||
| 156.178 | 251.344 | 156 | Bixby Road | ||
| 160.871 | 258.897 | 160 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of concurrencies with US 20/US 26/US 87 | |
| 165.909 | 267.005 | 165 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Natrona | Casper | 182.530 | 293.754 | 182 | Hat Six Road (WYO 253) –Brookhurst | |
185.354 | 298.298 | 185 | ![]() | |||
186.452– 186.785 | 300.065– 300.601 | 186 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | South end of concurrencies with US 20/US/26/US 87; eastern terminus of I-25 Bus. | ||
187.527 | 301.795 | 187 | McKinley Street | |||
188.185– 188.340 | 302.854– 303.104 | 188A | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | No northbound entrance; western terminus of I-25 Bus./US 87 Bus.; WYO 255 unsigned | ||
188.600 | 303.522 | 188B | Poplar Street (WYO 220) | |||
189.507 | 304.982 | 189 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | North end of concurrency with US 20/US 26 | ||
Hartrandt | 191.644 | 308.421 | 191 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Bar Nunn | 194 | 312 | 194 | Westwinds Road | Opened on October 5, 2018 | |
Homa Hills | 197.522 | 317.881 | 197 | Ormsby Road | ||
| 210.412 | 338.625 | 210 | ![]() ![]() | ||
| 216.605 | 348.592 | 216 | Ranch Road | ||
| 223.780 | 360.139 | 223 | Exit 223 | ||
| 227.987 | 366.910 | 227 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Johnson | | 235.375 | 378.799 | 235 | Tisdale Mountain Road | |
| 246.560 | 396.800 | 246 | Powder River Road | ||
| 249.688 | 401.834 | 249 | ![]() ![]() | ||
Kaycee | 254.254 | 409.182 | 254 | ![]() | ||
| 265.476 | 427.242 | 265 | Reno Road | ||
| 280.177 | 450.901 | 280 | Middle Fork Road | ||
| 291.077 | 468.443 | 291 | Trabing Road | ||
Buffalo | 298.024 | 479.623 | 298 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | ||
299.321 | 481.710 | 299 | ![]() ![]() | |||
| 300.530 | 483.656 | 300 | ![]() ![]() | Northbound exit and southbound entrance; I-90 exit 56B | |
| ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Northern terminus of I-25; north end of concurrency with US 87; I-90 exit 56B; tri-leveldirectional T interchange. | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Location | Wyoming |
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I-25 in Wyoming currently has no auxiliary Interstates but has six business loops and one business spur. Its business loops are located inCheyenne,Chugwater,Wheatland,Douglas,Glenrock, andCasper. The business spur is located inBuffalo.
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