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Wyoming is the Milky Way’s favorite place on Earth to gaze upon from the nighttime sky, the spiral-shaped wonder confirmed, saying that after all these years the thrill hasn’t diminished.
“You know, I’ve seen it a thousand times — millions actually — and it never disappoints,” the Milky Way said of the joy it feels when looking at the Cowboy State from the heavens. “Every night I glance down, it’s just like ‘BAM!’ Gets me every time.”
“I mean, you’ve got everything from the Rockies and its ranges — Absarokas, Beartooths, Bighorns, Owl Creeks, Tetons, Wind Rivers — to the Great Plains in the east,” the celestial phenom said. “And don’t forget those beautiful Basins — Bighorn, Powder River, Wind River, Washakie.
“The Platte, Wind, Big Horn, Yellowstone rivers flowing to the Gulf and Snake and Green headed west. Pine-covered foothills, sagebrush-swathed flats and everything in between. Wyoming has it all.”
“Even that stretch of US Highway 26 between Shoshoni and Casper has a certain charm,” added the star-laden entity, noting the desolate stretch of roadway passing by Hell’s Half Acre. When asked about its fondness for the view of Yellowstone, the Milky Way waxed nostalgic.
“I remember when Ulysses set aside that wondrous parcel like it was yesterday,” our galaxy proper said of President Grant’s 1872 designation of 2,221,766 acres — 96% of which lies within the boundaries of present-day Wyoming — as the world’s first national park. “Wildlife, hot springs, geysers, the biggest lake in the state, a supervolcano. Seriously? A supervolcano? That whole region is like something out of a Tolkien novel or something.” The Milky Way mentioned a geographic feature located in northeast Wyoming as its favorite spot in the state.
“Devils Tower blows my mind,” the home of our solar system bemused of the 876-foot phonolite porphyry rock structure which was the our country’s first national monument. “And that late-70s-Close–Encounters-Steven-Spielberg flick? Let’s just say the premise isn’t quite as farfetched as you might think.”
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