Despite them being "neighbor" states, they are quite different in many ways. Wyoming is
thought of as the rustic, sparsely populated, much desert but some mountains, and, the
cowboys and their ranches. Of course, Wyoming has the two jewels of the National Park
System: Yellowstone and The Tetons.
Along the highways in northeast Wyoming I saw interstate exits named Crazy Woman Creek and
Dead Horse Creek and Wild Horse Creek. Gotta wonder who thought up these names, and WHY!
LARAMIE WY
LOGAN UT
Part of the town of Logan sits on a mountain with a huge impressive-looking
valley. And I really like how Utah, at least northern Utah, towns lay out their
streets in a mostly grid fashion. Makes it MUCH easier to get around. And, Logan
has a numbering system for their streets. Than campus of Utah State is beautiful.
The drive to Logan from Evanston WY was along highways 16 and 30. I did that so I
could go by Bear Lake. That is an impressive place. And thousands more seem to
agree because as I was heading away from it, hundreds and hundreds of vehicles
were all headed to it, many with boats and/or fishing gear. It was a nice day
weather-wise so that brought out the multitude of people ready to enjoy the day.
I got some good photos of the area.
Utah has a multitude of national parks, mostly in the sparsely populated southern
half of the state. The north has several large towns, particularly Salt Lake City,
The population and state culture and laws are dominated by the early presence of the
Latter Day Saints Church (aka. Mormans). And, there is the well known Great Salt Lake
west of Salt Lake City,
Both states have their appeal and there is really nothing about either that I dislike.
This city was along my route and it was easy to visit the campus of the University
of Wyoming to photograph the campus sign. As far as I can tell, there is no such
school called Wyoming State University. So this is really the only major college in
the state.
This was my first visit to Logan. I came here to photograph the campus signs of Utah
State University. This was a really tough campus to find the signs. It is a huge
campus and the campus staff I emailed with were unhelpful. One send a couple of
pictures of signs that, for a couple of months, I could not find where on campus
they are located. I finally found one of the two (it was in a very unusual place
and difficult to spot from the road). The other sign I never did find.