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ExploreWYO Brings Hidden Attractions Into View

University of Wyoming Extension

If you’re looking for a way to spice up your summer road trips here in Wyoming, there’s a new tool to enjoy landmarks you might otherwise miss.

ExploreWYO is a map-based website — optimized for smartphones — featuring close to 400 videos produced by the University of Wyoming Extension. These 90-second stories dive into little-known-facts about Wyoming’s landscape and culture from wildlife and geology to cattle grazing and energy production.

 

David Keto from the University of Wyoming Extension produced the videos and helped create the website. He said the app-version is great for road trips. For example if, “you are going by Casper and Hell’s Half Acre and you want to know: What’s this weird geology that I’m seeing?” He says, “That’s a good time to open up the app. It’s map based so you can zoom right in and tap the icon by your location.”

 

Keto said you can use it on the fly as you pass something noticeable or you can use it to plan a detour.

 

“As you’re looking ahead and you see a video that interests you, you can link to Google maps and it will give you directions for how to get there.”

 

The map is designed to get you off the beaten path and learning more about Wyoming’s natural history. For more information, visit ExploreWYO.

 

Tennessee -- despite what the name might make you think -- was born and raised in the Northeast. She most recently called Vermont home. For the last 15 years she's been making radio -- as a youth radio educator, documentary producer, and now reporter. Her work has aired on Reveal, The Heart, LatinoUSA, Across Women's Lives from PRI, and American RadioWorks. One of her ongoing creative projects is co-producing Wage/Working (a jukebox-based oral history project about workers and income inequality). When she's not reporting, Tennessee likes to go on exploratory running adventures with her mutt Murray.
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