US 85 enters Wyoming from Colorado 8 miles (13 km) south of Cheyenne. In Cheyenne it joins with Business Route 87, and a mile later with Interstate 180 until it meets with U.S. Route 30. The segment with I-180 is the only fully at-grade interstate route in the U.S.
At exit 12, it joins with I-25 and U.S. Route 87 in a concurrency for 5 miles (8.0 km) until US 85 leaves at exit 17 and travels northeast towards Meriden. From there it heads north to Torrington, where it meets with U.S. Route 26 and concurrencies for 10 miles (16 km) until Lingle, and 47 miles (76 km) later it meets U.S. Route 20 and U.S. Route 18 at Lusk. It shares the next 47 miles (76 km) with US 18 and 33 miles (53 km) later meets U.S. Route 16 near Newcastle. From here it is 29 miles (47 km) until it enters South Dakota in the Black Hills.
As you enter Wyoming from Colorado on US 85, the first thing you'll see on the left is a blank brown sign.
If you were to look at the sign from the other direction - as it might be if you turned into the parking lot of the Stateline Oasis Lottery seller and Off Track betting parlor, you'd see that it looked like the above photo.
(When I first moved to Wyoming a year ago, this sign had various colors for each letter of the word colorful. A few months ago they took that one down and put up this one, with each letter a plain white. Never have known why they decided to do that.)
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