Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley Provides Visitors With Two-Hour Overview Tours
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The streets of Cheyenne come alive with history each year from May through September – thanks to the Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley. Operating since 1988, the trolley offers 90-minute narrated tours Monday through Friday, highlighting important landmarks such as the Wyoming State Capitol Building and the Historic Governors’ Mansion, as well as the Wyoming State Museum, the Cheyenne Depot Museum, the Nelson Museum of the West, the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens and the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum. On weekends visitors can enjoy a two-hour tour, which includes one free stop at the Old West Museum.
“The tours provide a great overview for visitors,” says Jill Pope, manager at the Cheyenne Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley. “We also do a lot of school tours. Cheyenne has a really rich history – from its railroad days to the cattle boom. The tours show off the beautiful architecture while having fun with the whole Wild West idea.”
Pope says the trolley offers a popular ghost tour in October, as well as a Christmas lights tour in December.
“The ghost tours are a lot of fun, and sell out every year,” she says. “It’s really a traveling theater production, with spooky stories about Cheyenne’s colorful past. And the lights tours are a great way to get into the holiday spirit. There are some amazing light displays and people sing Christmas carols.”
Tours depart from the Depot Plaza in the heart of downtown Cheyenne. Tickets are just $10 for adults and $5 for children. And the trolley can also be chartered for private groups.
“A lot of times people like to charter the trolley for weddings, family reunions and convention groups,” Pope says. “Our governor actually used the trolley on his inauguration day to transport the elected officials to the festivities.”
Story by Amy Stumpfl
Photo by Antony Boshier
