Move over Grand Teton and Devil’s Tower: for the first time, the Wyoming Department of Transportation is putting a new landmark on the state license plate. Every eight years, the department re-issues the plates. WYDOT’s Steve Lund says this time they’ll feature ‘Squaretop Mountain’ above Green River Lakes near Pinedale in the Wind River Range.
“Well, it’s always been of the Devil’s Tower or some picture of the Teton Mountains has always been the case. And then back in ’93, you could just barely tell it was the Teton series but after that it was like a picket fence or solid colors,” Lund says.
He says you can get the new plates next year, if you play your cards right.
“If you do a 23 month registration, you can actually get it in February 2016,” Lund says. “And then, if you just do your regular registration of one year, then you’ll get it the time you need a 2017 sticker, you’ll get the new plate.”
He says the Highway Commission also considered the Snowy Range and other Jackson landmarks but settled on Squaretop Mountain as an iconic image to represent the state.
