Northeast Wyoming is a great place to visit. It's a stone throw from the Black Hills, Devil's Tower, and the Big Horn Mountains. Within a day's drive are the gorgeous landscapes of Yellowstone and Teton National Park. Here are a few resources to help you organize your visit to the Cowboy State.
Local Interest
Wyoming Official State Travel Guide http://www.wyomingtourism.org/
Information for Visitors to Gillette http://www.gillettechamber.com/visitgillette.php and http://www.ci.gillette.wy.us/special/visitors.html
Virtual Tour of Gillette and more Information for Visitors http://www.imagesgillette.com/
Area Interest
Devil's Tower (45 miles; 72 kilometers) http://www.nps.gov/deto/
- Coal Mine Tour (locally organized through Uncle Steve)
Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Custer National Park, Harney Peak, Sturgis, Deadwood, the Badlands (120 miles and more; 190 kilometers) http://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/ and http://www.travelsd.com/placestogo/blackhills.asp
Big Horn Mountains (70 miles; 113 kilometers to Buffalo, WY) http://www.bighornmountains.com/ and http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/bighorn/
Cody, Wyoming (250 miles; 402 kilometers) http://www.codychamber.org/
Yellowstone National Park (360 miles; 580 kilometers) http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Yellowstone-National-Park/4796
Grand Tetons and Jackson Hole, WY (394 miles; 634 kilometers) http://www.nps.gov/grte and http://www.jacksonholechamber.com/jackson_hole/
Accommodation
Be sure to book early as there are several other weddings in town on the same weekend in addition to usual summer activities in Gillette. If you have difficulty finding a place to stay, please email us and we can help you find something!
We have saved a block of rooms at the Hampton Inn in Gillette Wyoming (see http://www.hamptoninn.com/en/hp/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=GILWYHX). The special room rate and a minimum block of ten rooms (more are available)will be reserved until June 28, 2009. The Hampton Inn is a new hotel with swimming pool and other amenities located off of Interstate 90. It is close to the Uhler home, the church, and the Moose Lodge. To receive a room in this block at a special rate ($99), you will have to call The Hampton Inn at (307) 686-2000 and give the confirmation number 83535288 or mention "Uhler Wedding." The blocked room rate is not available by internet reservation.
List of other local hotels and camping http://www.gillettechamber.com/pages/Accomodations.php
Flights
If you look for flights, try the following search engines:
Directly via the airlines:
Try to find flights to Gillette, WY
Other nearby airports include the following:
- Sheridan, WY (104 miles; 167 kilometers)
- Casper, WY (134 miles; 216 kilometers)
- Rapid City, SD (141 miles; 227 kilometers)
- Billings, MT (223 miles; 374 kilometers)
- Denver, CO (339 miles; 546 kilometers)
For a bit of adventure and extended travel, you may think about traveling into a major city on the West Coast and taking a scenic drive through some national parks to get to Wyoming:
- Salt Lake City, UT (588 miles; 946 kilometers)
- Las Vegas, NV (984 miles; 1583 kilometers)
- San Francisco, CA (1322 miles; 2127 kilometers)
- Los Angeles, CA (1250 miles; 2012 kilometers)
- Seattle, WA (1051 miles; 1691 kilometers)
You could also try to book multi-hop or multi-leg flights.
Getting to/from Airports
Greyhound Bus Lines can connect you from Billings, MT for a decent price and travel duration (4 hours) http://www.greyhound.com/home/
- Many other travelers for the wedding will be coming from Denver, Billings, and Rapid City. If you need a ride to/from these airports, contact us and we can try to put you in touch with someone with whom you can car pool.
- Driving directions from Denver to Gillette: Take I-25 North to Douglas, WY and then get onto the Douglas Highway WY-59 into Gillette.
Tips and Tricks
- If you start from Germany, try Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, or Brussels as a starting point or try to fly via London and take a cheap airline first.
Walter: Eine relativ gute (und relativ preiswerte) Flugverbindung ist die Verbindung London (Heathrow) - Denver mit British Airways. Kann man direkt unter http://www.britishairways.com buchen. (Haben wir am 11.1.09 gemacht)
Ulrich: If you are not a U.S. citizen or resident, don't forget to register your travel to the US at the ESTA, as described on this page: http://www.netzeitung.de/reise/1247977.html