Hello

[Kevin_K]

Hello all and thank you for taking a few moments to read my post.  I am a 34 year old who has a true love for freedom.  My wife and I are looking to purchase land in WY and that is where this forum came in handy.  Though I am only 34, and she is 29, we are both avid believers in our rights and desire to relocate to WY.  The reason we wish to purchase land now is that it might take a few years for us to be finanicaly stable to move there.  I have spent over ten years as a Marine Infantryman with deployments from Iraq to Indonesia.  She is a top researcher and professor at a university.  I am asking if someone who is familiar with the terrain of Wy to assist me in choosing a starting point for my search of land.  I am looking for land that is wooded and suitable for some small gardening. Similar to the thick forests but even a sparse one would sufice. We have many productive qualities and would be neither a drain nor a burden on the economy or anyone.
Thank you for your time.

Kevin

[manfromnevada]

Kevin,
Welcome to you and your wife on the forum. I hope to hear more from you.
Take some time and look around the forum. Use the Avanced Search feature and look for things like "land, real-estate, climate" etc.
There's a category called "Lay of the Land". That might help.

Much of WY of open prairie, grassland, and sage, but some is heavily forested. Just look for the areas on the maps with National Forest nearby!
Much of Crook County, where I am, is forested by either the Black Hills or the Bear Lodge Mountains. It's beautiful.

But jobs, shopping, medical, isolation (or lack) all play an equally important role. It's a tough decision. I'm retired, so jobs meant nothing. That made it easier to decide.

Well, take a look around. There's a lot here.
Mac

[wyomiles]

Howdy Kevin,  Yep lots of good info here as Mac has already said.  My first thought would be to check out the North East corner, Crook county. I'm not to familiar with college oportunities in the area, might have to commute over to Rapid City for that ?
Other places to check out might be Casper and Laramie.   Take care !   Miles

[Beulahtrash]

The NE corner is very nice and so is the Laramie area both have wooded areas. The university is in Laramie and just across the border on I-90 Spearfish, SD has Black Hills State University. If you would like to know more about Crook County let me know. Someone else would have a better idea for Laramie as I just went to school there a few years.

[Kevin_K]

Thank you for the generous information.  I will start my research and look into the areas you presented us with.  As for my wife we choose for her not only to stop working for the University but to begin home schooling my children as the first is almost born.  She has made quite an inpact in the world of university research, into which you can only immagine how the governments ugly head has tainted science, and as a result who better to teach my children Science.  As for myself I have been associated with a very successful boxing gym for the last 8  years and plan on oppening a gym focused on the amatuer youth.
Thanks again and Im certain we shall talk again,
Kevin

[wyomiles]

Kevin, Rock Springs has a very active golden glove family. So boxing might be a good direction to go.

[Kevin_K]

Thank you I will look into it.