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'''Wyoming''' is a state in the Mid-West of the [[United States of America|United States]]. It generally gets a bad rap for hitchhiking due to its laws and hard times some people have had; other people ([[User:Zenit|Zenit]]) consider this to be one of their favourite states in the whole US. Also it's great for pick up truck hitchhiking. So be prepared for [[weather#Rain|rain]] and cold!
Rides can be few and far between in Wyoming, thus, the state troopers have a good chance in spotting you. Consider avoiding Wyoming if you have time to go around it. And if you happen to get stuck in Buffalo, there's a railing along a bridge there where several (lonely?) hitch-hikers from decades ago have signed their names. Add yours to the list, write something witty, then enjoy the four hour wait for your next ride.
== Law ==
Title 31. Motor Vehicles:Chapter 5. Regulation of traffic Hitchhiking will become officially legal on highwaysJuly 1,2013 in [[Wyoming]].::31-5-606A bill was introduced January 9, 2013 by Senator Leland Christensen called Senate File 29 in the 62nd Wyoming Legislature to legalize hitchhiking in the state. Soliciting The bill was signed into law on streets and highways.:::(a) No person shall be on a highway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employmentFebruary 28th, business or contributions from the occupant of any vehicle. This subsection does not apply to persons attempting to obtain assistance for disabled vehicles2013.
Due to the broad definition of highway, hitchhiking is strictly '''illegal''' in Wyoming. Highway is between the boundary lines of any road which includes, shoulders, berms, grass and sidewalks on the property. It is probably best to avoid hitchhiking in Wyoming if you don't like jail.
 
'''NOTE:''' A bill was introduced January 9, 2013 by Senator Leland Christensen called Senate File 29 in the 62nd Wyoming Legislature to legalize hitchhiking in the state. If it is enacted, it will be legal to hitchhike in Wyoming as of July 1, 2013.
=== Federal Districts ===
== Experiences ==
:''Wyoming is not a terrible place to hitchhike. For the most part, the police won't bother you if they don't actually see you with your thumb out. I just happily wave to them when I see them approach me and they have never stopped to even talk to me. Highway 89 along the western edge of Wyoming and highway 212 running northeast from Yellowstone National Park have some of the most spectacular scenery I have seen anywhere, although the majority of the state is rolling brown hills. My average wait times for rides was between 20 minutes and 1.5 hours which seems to be about the national average if not slightly better.''[[User:Thewindandrain|Thewindandrain]] ([[User talk:Thewindandrain|talk]]) 01:12, 2 October 2012 (CEST) :''I hitchhiked across Wyoming twice and ran into crazy natives with guns, a dentist who kidnapped me for the better part of a week and showed me all around and only one cop who told me that hitchhiking is illegal (after he and his colleagues had passed me at least four times already. I told him I was just hanging out and then continued, nothing happened. State troopers never paid any attention to me, though I made sure not to show them my thumb. Beautiful scenery, everybody who picked me up was super nice.'' --[[User:Zenit|Zenit]]
:''I hitchhiked across Wyoming twice and ran into crazy natives with guns, a dentist who kidnapped me for the better part of a week and showed me all around and only one cop who told me that hitchhiking is illegal after he and his colleagues had passed me at least four times already. I told him I was just hanging out and then continued, nothing happened. State troopers never paid any attention to me, though I made sure not to show them my thumb. Beautiful scenery, everybody who picked me up was super nice.'' --[[User:Zenit|Zenit]]
:''While hitching on 25, a buddy and I got stopped twice by state troopers. The first was a pretty nice guy who ran our ID's to check for warrants, and when they came back clean, he told us that since hitching was our only mode of transportation, he'd let us go. About an hour later, another statey stopped us and was a bit more serious. If we hadn't already been given the go-ahead by the previous trooper, we just might have had to stay the night in jail.''
 
:''Geez Wyoming is beautiful. Geeeez. I was on Greyhound and the bus broke down in the middle of noooowhere, middle of the night, we couldn't see anything but stars. The electricity was out so we had no lights, the truckers might have hit us, so they wouldn't let anyone off for cigarettes and there was practically a riot. At dawn we got off into the cooold Wyoming morning and saw how beautiful the canyons to either side of us were. A small group of us walked up the highway and found a raaaaandom stand, in the middle of NOWHERE, sellin fireworks and coffee for twenty five cents. Me and this stoner kid decided not to wait for the back-up bus and hitchhiked through. No problemos, just beautiful Wyoming. I could hardly keep myself together I was so happy to be alive.''

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