Welcome to
Curt Gowdy Views!
Curt Gowdy State Park is in Wyoming situated
halfway between the city of Cheyenne and the city
of Laramie. The entrance of the park can be reached
at Milepost 23 ½ on Wyoming Highway 210. Highway
210 is also known as Happy Jack Road. The
administrative office of Curt Gowdy State park is
located at 1319 Hynds Lodge Road. The park opened
to the public in 1971, but was dedicated as Curt
Gowdy State Park in March of 1972. Curt Gowdy, a
native of Wyoming, was a well-known sports
broadcaster. Curt Gowdy was born in 1919 and died
at his home in Florida in 2006. Curt Gowdy State
Park is a mixture of grasslands, pine trees,
granite rocks, and sparkling water. The park is
open year round from seven in the morning to
three-thirty in the afternoon, but hours are
extended to ten at night in the summer. Curt Gowdy
Park provides trout fishing, boating, bike and
hiking trails, camping, and picnic sites. Bike
trails range in level from novice to expert in
skill level. Drinking water, a boat ramp, a dumping
station, and a children’s playground is available.
The park is a state fee area. The main features of
Curt Gowdy State Park are Granite Reservoir and the
smaller Crystal Reservoir below it. Granite
Reservoir receives water by pipeline from Lake
Owen. The reservoir spillway is over 7,000 feet in
elevation. In 2003, a fifteen-inch walleye fish was
found in Granite Reservoir. An expanding walleye
population could endanger the stocked trout
ecosystem. No live bait for fishing is allowed in
the reservoir. Crystal Lake Reservoir receives
water from Middle Crow Creek and from a Granite
Springs Reservoir pipeline. The Crystal Lake
spillway rests at approximately 6,700 feet. The
lake is over sixty feet deep. Both Crystal and
Granite Springs Reservoirs are part of the
Cheyenne, Wyoming water storage system.
