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8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
One thing you can count on is that you will get old. Many of us will fight the thought of aging, but there’s no stopping it. You’ll get wrinkly, your hair will turn gray, things will start to sag, and you may start to forget things, but it will happen to us all.
Finding the best place to call home when you get to the later years is important. Making those decisions can be extra tricky if you’re on a fixed income and are already struggling.
Luckily for Wyomingites, this state is a good choice for living in their twilight years. With low taxes and a low cost of living, you’ll be able to live more comfortably here than in many other states.
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
These are the best 8 Wyoming Towns for senior living
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8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Rated the safest place to live by New Home Source in 2024.
This should not be surprising considering its crime rate which is 73% below the national average. The county seat for Lincoln County was incorporated in 1899 and has maintained history from each proceeding decade for the enjoyment of everyone. For anyone wanting to delve deeper into history of the land, the town is a mere fifteen-minute drive to Fossil Butte National Monument.
Evanston
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Rated the most affordable town in Wyoming by New Home Source
The honor is no doubt due to its home price-to-income ratio of 2.87%. For such a bargain price, Evanstonians have access to Bear River State Park and Bear River Greenway and their own unparalleled, historic downtown.
Jackson
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
While it may not be the cheapest option for living, there is endless activity for a senior.
Imagine watching the seasons change while floating down the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson is a dream retirement waiting for a retiree. Jackson Town Square is a testament as to why.
Glenrock
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Glenrock was named the second safest city in Wyoming, and with the larger Casper just 20 minutes away, you can have small-town living and larger-city accommodations close by.
The Glenrock Health Center is a rural health clinic that has been serving the community since 1958. They are currently accepting new patients, and walk-ins are always welcome.
Riverton
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Riverton has always been known as a natural meeting place and continues that today.
The town takes good care of its residents. Measures are taken in the warmer months to control the mosquito population. The SageWest Hospital is open 24 hours per day. The current ER wait time is always posted on the front page of their website to ensure transparency with the community.
Worland
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Worland is the 3rd safest city in Wyoming and is a retiree’s wonderland all year.
Take in a view of colorful desert racing the blue sky to the ends of the horizon on the Gooseberry Badlands Scenic Overlook and Trail. Future retirees scoping out the scene ought not forget to check out the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center.
Green River
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Green River takes senior living seriously, with the Golden Hour Senior Center planning events year-round.
Green River makes it easy to live healthy and free as it becomes increasingly more expensive to do so nationwide. The town was placed as the 3rd most affordable town in Wyoming, with a Home Price to Income Ratio of 2.83%.
Rock Springs
8 Wyoming Towns That Are The Best For Seniors
Rock Springs offers something for everyone, no matter your activity levels from stunning views to great adventures on the water.
The town has three hospitals that are open 24 hours a day, along with several clinics to meet various needs. The crime rate in Rock Springs is below the national average. Rock Springs is emblematic of why Wyoming is an ideal spot for retirees.
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Wyoming authorities call on Rocky Mountain Power to explain role in massive November power outage
by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile
The massive, multiple-utility power outage last fall that left some 250,000 customers across parts of Wyoming, South Dakota and Montana without electricity was the result of miscommunication and inadequate procedures during planned maintenance that required de-energizing a power line in southcentral Wyoming, according to a report.
The Nov. 13 incident left thousands of homes and businesses without power for 9.5 hours — longer, in some cases — and knocked out a coal-powered generator outside Glenrock. The unit at the Dave Johnston Power Plant remains offline, leaving Rocky Mountain Power to backfill some 300 megawatts of electricity — enough to power about 225,000 homes.
Without expressly assigning blame to any one party, the report — conducted by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation — indicates a series of communication breakdowns between PacifiCorp (parent company of Rocky Mountain Power), the Western Area Power Administration and, to some degree, electrical grid coordinating teams.
While it’s unclear whether authorities such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation might pinpoint fault and assess penalties, the Wyoming Public Service Commission has called on Rocky Mountain Power to appear at a hearing scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. The commission wants to hear from the utility about “the specifics and details of the event and report,” a public notice announced, and it “may consider and take any action that is in the public interest.”
The hearing at the Public Service Commission’s office located at 2515 Warren Avenue, Suite 300, in Cheyenne, will also be livestreamed at this link.
What happened
According to the 49-page report published in June, PacifiCorp and the Western Area Power Administration were coordinating maintenance on their respective systems that, together, required temporarily de-energizing PacifiCorp’s Aeolus–Clover 500 kilovolt line, which runs east-west and is anchored, in part, by a substation near Medicine Bow.
The effort also required curtailing some local wind energy from feeding the grid, according to the report. But on the day of the planned maintenance, Nov. 13, there was confusion about whether the Western Area Power Administration would scrap its work, so wind energy wasn’t curtailed as originally planned.
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Wind turbines near Cheyenne poke into a colorful sunrise in January 2025. (Tennessee Watson/WyoFile)
The report indicates that modeling tools might have failed to accurately measure local grid conditions, so when the power line was de-energized, “power flow rapidly redistributed throughout the northeast portion” of the local grid. “Within six seconds,” according to the report, “an electrical island formed and collapsed, causing widespread effects across that portion of the interconnection.
“The disturbance,” the report continues, “culminated in the loss of more than 4,800 [megawatts] of generation from coal, natural gas, photovoltaic and wind resources.”
The cascading power failure began at about 12:45 p.m. on a Thursday, dragging down portions of service territories operated by Rocky Mountain Power, Black Hills Energy, Montana-Dakota Utilities and some rural electric co-ops.
The report points to failures in communication, process deficiencies and inadequate modeling tools. Wind energy was not “identified as a contributing factor,” according to the report. It credits both battery storage and wind energy throughout the impacted area for supporting “a faster frequency recovery across the interconnection” and for providing “readily available capacity during system restoration.”
This article was originally published by WyoFile and is republished here with permission. WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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