Length: 20.0 miles / 32.2 km
Time to Allow: Approximately 20 minutes
The Mirror Lake Highway, SR 150, runs from Kamas, UT to Evanston, WY, bisecting the western portion of the Uinta Mountains. Both Wyoming and Utah have designated this entire stretch of highway, approximately 78 miles, as a State Scenic Byway. Its Scenic Byway status acknowledges the spectacular scenery and historic significance of the highway.
Much of the Byway (42 miles) runs through the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The Mirror Lake area encompasses approximately 320 square miles of the National Forest. The area is highly diverse and is characterized by sagebrush flats, aspen and coniferous forests, high mountains, grassy meadows, alpine tundra, and an abundance of lakes, streams, and wetlands.
Give or take a few, it is 400 miles across Wyoming on Interstate 80. By anybody’s standard that is a solid day’s travel. But hey, don’t just buzz through the state. There is a lot to see and do along the way. So much, in fact, that it’s best done in sections. So instead of hitting Wyoming at Pine Bluffs, putting the cruise control on 75 mph, and blowing out of the state around eight hours later at Evanston, set your sights on just some of the towns.
Begin your trip in Laramie, about 1/4 of the way across. This is cowboy country. read more
Wyoming’s newest Scenic Byway, the Wind River Canyon, offers tourists 34 miles of unspoiled scenic views, geologic field exploration opportunities, abundant wild life, float trips, canyon fishing, boat launching facilities and state park public camping. For hundreds of years read more
