Our Laramie township and region is gifted with water from both the Laramie River Valley Watershed & the Casper Aquifer.

 

Our mural is a topo map representation of the Laramie River Valley, west to the Snowy Mountains and east to Laramie (large blue circle) and the Laramie Range.

In the west see Medicine Bow Peak with its beautiful lakes, Rob Roy Reservoir and Lake Owen. Moving east we see Sheep Mountain & the Little Laramie River; Jelm Mountain & the Laramie River;  then to Lake Hattie & the Big Hollow; Laramie Town with the leaf symbol for LMS; the western slope of the Laramie Range with all it’s many drainages; the gold outline of the Recharge Zone for the Casper Aquifer: Pilot Hill Recreation Area in Gold; the smaller blue circles of the springs & wells at the base of the slope feeding our homes; from top, Spur Wells, City Springs, Pope Springs, Soldier Springs & finally Simpson Springs.

 

According to Lakota oral history this valley is known as the Valley of the Thunder Beings with its spectacular storm cloud systems moving across the Valley, gathering and releasing their sacred moisture on the Laramie Range,  filling our precious Aquifer and flowing into our homes.