Distances from Casper, WY to nearby cities and major US destinations
Drive times and estimated fuel costs from Casper, WY to the towns around it and to the major cities most people head for. Pick any row for the full route.
Casper, WY sits in Wyoming, on Denver time, at 42.87° north and 106.31° west. The nearest place of any size is Gillette, WY, about 123 miles away — roughly 2 hr 3 min of driving.
Counting only places above twenty thousand people, 3 are within three hours' driving of Casper, WY and 45 within six — which is a better measure of how connected a town is than its position on a map. The nearest city of real size is Denver, CO, about 263 miles out.
The two lists below answer different questions. The first is what is physically close, which is what you want for an errand or a day out. The second is the major cities people actually drive to from here, which is usually a longer trip and a different kind of plan. Every figure is an estimated road distance rather than a routed one, and every drive time assumes free-flowing traffic with no allowance for a stop — how the estimate works. For a pair that is not listed here, the calculator will work out any two US cities.
Which way the driving goes from Casper, WY
Reachable places are rarely spread evenly around a town, and they are not around Casper, WY. Of everything above twenty thousand people within three hours' drive, the largest share — 1 of 3 — lies to the southeast, with 1 to the north. Only 1 sit to the south. That asymmetry is usually geography rather than road building: coastline, a state line, mountains or simply empty country in one direction and settlement in another.
3 of those places are in Wyoming and 0 are across a state line, which matters more than the mileage does. Speed limits, phone rules and what you may do at a red light are all set state by state, so a drive of the same length can be governed by two sets of rules or by one. The state-by-state differences are set out separately.
The major-city list below spans a wide range: Denver, CO is about 263 miles out, roughly 4 hr 23 min of driving, while Queens, NY is around 1,937 miles — a different order of trip entirely, and one to plan in stages rather than as a day. 5 of the 10 routes below have a page of their own, with the towns along the way and how flying compares.
One thing none of these figures account for: the distance is the same in both directions but the drive often is not. A route that climbs on the way out descends on the way back, rush hour is in one direction in the morning and the other in the evening, and a mountain pass can be open one way and closed the other in winter. The estimate here is symmetrical because the road is; the day is not. For a long haul out of Casper, WY, the road safety guides cover the part the mileage leaves out.
Closest cities to Casper, WY
- Gillette, WY 123 mi · 2 hr 3 min
- Laramie, WY 132 mi · 2 hr 12 min
- Cheyenne, WY 164 mi · 2 hr 44 min
- Fort Collins, CO 197 mi · 3 hr 17 min
- Rock Springs, WY 200 mi · 3 hr 20 min
- Rapid City, SD 204 mi · 3 hr 24 min
- Windsor, CO 209 mi · 3 hr 29 min
- Loveland, CO 211 mi · 3 hr 31 min
- Greeley, CO 218 mi · 3 hr 38 min
- Evans, CO 222 mi · 3 hr 42 min
Major cities from Casper, WY
- Denver, CO 263 mi · 4 hr 23 min
- Colorado Springs, CO 336 mi · 5 hr 36 min
- Albuquerque, NM 624 mi · 9 hr 54 min
- Los Angeles, CA 1027 mi · 16 hr 19 min
- San Diego, CA 1063 mi · 16 hr 53 min
- Chicago, IL 1106 mi · 17 hr 33 min
- Houston, TX 1264 mi · 20 hr 3 min
- New York City, NY 1926 mi · 30 hr 35 min
- Brooklyn, NY 1931 mi · 30 hr 39 min
- Queens, NY 1937 mi · 30 hr 45 min