[Hojczyk]

[laplata]

From what I understand, Wyoming does not plow the Interstates going through Wyoming.

[Fiji Hill]

Interstate 80 in Wyoming—the Snow Chi Minh Trail

[reintarnation]

One summer I drove I-80 across Wyoming.
In the distance I could see some sort of object on the horizon, but couldnt make it out.
Kept getting closer, but still couldn’t tell what it was.
Finally, I got closed enough to see...

It was a tree.
A single, solitary tree.

Yes, it’s that barren up there.

[HighSierra5]

I didn’t know that you have to slow down in the snow. Gee. What a bunch of dumbasses.

[McGruff]

Poor truckers probably risk getting fired for not driving through it.

[CA_soon_gone]

My son went to school in Laramie so I've seen it first hand. If you want a taste of how bad it can be watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6Iz4dXGdg

[Nateman]

I've went into a spin with some wind driven snow across that road once. It was either that or go over the edge into the valley below. I ended up stuck in the medium. Amazing how time slows down during such scares. Probably only took a few seconds but it was like a slow motion movie as it happened.

Other than needing a wire to get towed out everything was fine.

[lewislynn]

Back in the late 60's I was traveling on I 80 through Nevada late at night, there was no speed limit in Nevada in those days.

It was snowing and starting to stick. I saw flashing yellow light coming up from behind me. I was doing maybe 80 when 2 snow plows went by me doing about 95 blowing ice and snow all over me.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Pretty ugly!!

[Fiji Hill]

When I visited Wyoming in 1961, a woman said to me that outsiders remark that Wyoming has cold winters. She added, “yes, Wyoming does, indeed, have cold winters. So don’t move here.”

[SuperLuminal]

I-80 west of Reno to the CA line is the “black ice” capital of the world, IMHO...

On several occasions, during the 70’s & 80’s, on that stretch of road, as “he who shall remain nameless” was wont to say, “I felt a tingle in my legs”...

[jimtorr]

I drove I-80 through Wyoming once, in mid-October 2012. Stayed one day ahead of winds strong enough that they closed the freeway. Stayed overnight in Rock Springs Best Western. Nich motel, big indoor pool just outside my room.

Very scenic highway, then it plunges down, down, down into the Great Salt Lake basin.

[The Great RJ]

I-90 through South Dakota and southern Minnesota has gates that close the road during winter storms and low visibility snow conditions. It is not unusual that several times during a typical winter that half of I-90 across South Dakota is closed to travel.