On the Border.... between Colorado and Wyoming

US Route 85 is a highway that runs north/south across the United States. It begins in El Paso, Texas and runs north from Texas through New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and up into Saskatchewan, Canada.

When it enters Colorado its name is also Greeley Highway, because it runs through the town of Greeley. As it passes through the downtown streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming, the name changes to Warren Avenue going north, and Central Avenue going south. (Each of these avenues is one way.)

Since I live in a housing development just off Greeley Highway, the Colorado/Wyoming border I am most familiar with is this one, and I decided to visit it again today to write the inaugural posts for this blog, Windjamming Around Wyoming.

Businesses on the Border 

Greenfaith Ministry

Prior to August 24th 2014, Wyoming did not have its own lottery, so people in the Cheyenne region who wanted to play Power Ball or Mega Millions, or purchase scratch-off tickets, had to drive along US-85 to the Colorado/Wyoming border.

There were two businesses set up right on the border between the two states to take advantage of this traffic. The youngest one (just four years old) was set up alongside a residence, and closed when Wyoming's lottery, WyoLotto, made its debut.

I visited the site today (it's on the left-hand side of Greeley Highway as you head north) and found that it is now the home of Greenfaith Ministry, a sacramental herb church that uses cannabis (with its hallucinatory properties removed).

There are a few displays in an adjacent trailer:

Cannabis Museum

Magazine display in the Cannabis Museum

This location also offers a Disc Golf course, and according to the gentleman I talked to, it's the Disc Golf course that draws the most people. Within the building there is a private smoking room for adults only, and children are allowed in the other areas of the building.

The Den

Continue north on US-85 about 100 yards (if that much) and the next road you come to on your left is an exit for The Den, a "gentleman's club" that is open only in the evenings.

Continue on this road, past this establishment (about 50 yards or so) to:

Borderline

Borderline - play lottery here

The first lottery store, and a purpose built one, on this border, is about ten years old.

They're still in business, because although Wyoming has a lottery, they don't sell scratch-off tickets, and it is these that are keeping Borderline in business (at least at the time of this writing.)

Alcohol is served here, and pop can be found in vending machines.

Drink selection at Borderline

Leave Borderline and return to Greeley Highway to continue north, and within a few yards you will enter Wyoming, and pass a Welcome to Wyoming sign on your right.

That will be the subject of my next post.

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Please note that I don't endorse the Greenfaith Ministry, the Den, or Borderline, nor do they endorse this blog.