Hot Springs County–Thermopolis Municipal Airport () is a general aviation

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10 miles northwest of

Thermopolis Thermopolis is the county seat and largest town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the town population was 2,725. Thermopolis is Greek for "hot city." It is home to numerous natural hot springs, in which m ...

Wyoming Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...

. The airport was opened in 2015 to replace the original Thermopolis Municipal Airport, which was in the city of Thermopolis, but was unsuitable to expansion. This airport has been discontinued since and now serves as part of the Thermopolis Golf Course. In the year ending June 30, 2021, the airport had 2,702 aircraft operations, average 52 per week: 94%

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, 6%

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and <1% military. 10 aircraft at the time were based at the airport: 9 single-engine and 1 multi-engine., effective 2021-01-28

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