Wyoming Highway 215 (WYO 215), Pine Bluffs-Albin Road, is a ,
two-lane state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in
Laramie County
Laramie County is a county located at the southeast corner of the state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 100,512 or 17.4% of the state's total 2020 population, making it the most populous county in Wyoming, b ...
,
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 ...
, United states, that connects
Interstate 80 Business/
U.S. Route 30
U.S. Route 30 or U.S. Highway 30 (US 30) is an east–west main route in the system of the United States Numbered Highways, with the highway traveling across the northern tier of the country. With a length of , it is the third longest ...
(I-80 BL/US 30) in
Pine Bluffs with
Wyoming Highway 216 , just east of
Albin.
Route description
WYO 215 begins at I-80 BL/US 30 (Parson Street), just north of Exit 401 on
Interstate 80
Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...
/US 30 in southwestern Pine Bluffs. (I-80 BL/US 30 heads south toward Interstate 80 and north, then east, toward
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
, but I-80 BL no longer continues into that state.) From its southern terminus WYO 215 heads very briefly west on a
viaduct
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide v ...
over Old U.S. 30 and four sets of
railway track
A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as permanent way or simply track, is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, ...
s as it turns north to run just inside the western edge of Pine Bluffs. After connecting with the western end of North Main Street, crossing over
Lodgepole Creek
Lodgepole Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 25, 2011 in the U.S. states of Wyoming, Nebraska and ...
, and connecting with the eastern end of
County Road 213, WYO 215 leaves Pine Bluffs and continues north through rural
agricultural area for the greater part of its course. (North of Pine Bluffs, the county roads are spaced apart, in sequential order.)
Minuteman
Minutemen were members of the organized New England colonial militia companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies during the American Revolutionary War. They were known for being ready at a minute's notice, hence the name. Mi ...
missile silo
A missile launch facility, also known as an underground missile silo, launch facility (LF), or nuclear silo, is a vertical cylindrical structure constructed underground, for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs ...
. After crossing County Road 222, County Road 223, and County Road 224, WYO 215 connect with the western end of County Road 226. As WYO 215 crosses County Road 227 it jogs about to the west before resuming its course to the north and crosses County Road 228.[
About farther north WYO 215 reaches its northern terminus at WYO 216 at an ]intersection
In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously. For example, in Euclidean geometry, when two lines in a plane are not parallel, their i ...
(that includes the southern end of County Road 162 R 162/Albin-La Grange Road about east of the Albin town limits
City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary or border of a city. The area within the city limit can be called the city proper. Town limit/boundary and village limit/boundary apply to towns and villages. Similarly, corporate limi ...
. (WYO 216 heads west through Albin before ending at U.S. Route 85, southwest of Meriden. WYO 216 heads east to the Nebraska state line. CR 162 head north toward Wyoming Highway 151
Wyoming Highway 151 (WYO 151) is a Wyoming State Road, known as LaGrange Road, that is located in extreme southeastern Goshen County.
Route description
WYO 151 runs east–west from US 85 west of LaGrange to the Nebraska-Wyoming State Line ...
and La Grance.)[
]
Major intersections
See also
* List of state highways in Wyoming
The state highway system in the U.S. state of Wyoming consists of a series of numbered routes; usually known as WYO X, where X is the route number.
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References
* Official 2003 State Highway Map of Wyoming
External links
WYO 215 - I-80 Bus/US 30 to WYO 216
Town of Pine Bluffs webpage
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Transportation in Laramie County, Wyoming
215
Year 215 ( CCXV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laetus and Sulla (or, less frequently, year 968 ''Ab urbe condita''). ...