Wyoming currently possesses a grand total of two escalators in the entire state, both of which are safely located inside banks in the city of Casper; for a territory that spans…

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Wyoming currently possesses a grand total of two escalators in the entire state, both of which are safely located inside banks in the city of Casper; for a territory that spans nearly one hundred thousand square miles of rugged terrain, its citizens apparently prefer to rely on good old-fashioned stairs or perhaps just vehemently refuse to build any structures taller than a reasonably sized pine tree; it is genuinely hilarious that in our modern era of hyper-convenience where tech billionaires are casually launching themselves into low orbit, an entire American state is basically treating a moving staircase like some sort of forbidden dark magic; maybe they just genuinely enjoy leg day, or maybe they realize that escalators are just capitalist conveyor belts slowly transporting us toward our inevitable cardiovascular doom, but either way it is a phenomenal piece of geographic trivia to drop at your next party