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Lucerne Wyoming Map

Explore Lucerne, Wyoming, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Lucerne, Wyoming

How to Use This Lucerne, Wyoming Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lucerne, Wyoming. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Wyoming or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Lucerne.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Lucerne
State	Wyoming (WY)
County	Hot Springs County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	43.718022
Longitude	-108.18471
Population	548
Density	10.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	82443
Area Code	307
County Seat	Thermopolis
School District	Hot Springs County School District 1

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About Lucerne, Wyoming

Lucerne is a locality in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 548. The population density is 10.5 people per km². Lucerne is located at 43.7180°N, 108.1847°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 82443.

Lucerne maintains a stark, singular composure amidst the vast, high-desert expanse of the Wyoming plains. It lies 50.1 miles north-northeast of Riverton, WY (from Riverton, WY: bearing 12°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north-northeast of Thermopolis. The Bighorn River carves a deliberate path just a mile away, its persistent current providing a cool, rhythmic contrast to the arid silence of the surrounding terrain. To the west, the distant, jagged silhouettes of the Bighorn Mountains rise against the horizon, their peaks often catching the bruised purples and golds of a fading sun. Closer to the periphery, the rugged, sun-bleached expanse of Sand Draw stretches out, while the nearby Coal Draw Equisite offers a silent, protected sanctuary of scrub and stone. The atmosphere here possesses a weightless clarity, where the light at dusk bleaches the sagebrush into shades of ghostly silver, rendering the landscape almost transparent against the deepening sky.

Lucerne persists as a quiet outpost of labor and legacy, its economy tethered to the rhythmic demands of agriculture and the extraction industries that have long defined the region. The history of the area is written in the endurance of those who carved a living from this unforgiving soil, where the soil itself holds the memory of early western settlement and the slow movement of livestock. Four miles away, the quiet waters of Cover Slough reflect the immense, uncrowded expanse of the sky, serving as a rare, still counterpoint to the persistent wind that sweeps across the basin. Daily life in Lucerne moves with a deliberate, measured pace, unburdened by the frantic acceleration of urban centers, favoring instead the steady, repetitive cycles of the seasons. There is a profound beauty in this isolation, a sense that the residents exist in a state of quiet negotiation with the land, acknowledging the harshness of the climate while finding a simple, austere satisfaction in the daily labor of survival.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Coal Draw Equisite (Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 007° N
Legion Town and Country Public Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 199° S
Hot Springs State Park (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 180° S
World's Largest Mineral Hot Spring (Viewpoint) — 4.3 mi, 189° S
T Hill (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 199° S
Thermopolis City Park (Local Park) — 5.0 mi, 190° S
Tyrannosaurus (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 195° S
Family Park (Local Park) — 5.2 mi, 201° S
Cedar Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 5.4 mi, 021° N · 54k acres
Copper Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 19.0 mi, 176° S · 6,993 acres
Legend Rock Petroglyph Site (Attraction) — 21.4 mi, 286° W
Shoshone National Forest (National Forest) — 40.5 mi, 276° W · 2.4M acres
Washakie Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 44.5 mi, 280° W · 694k acres
Caboose (Attraction) — 53.7 mi, 007° N
Big Horn Basin Geoscience Center (Museum) — 53.7 mi, 007° N
Grand Theater (Theatre) — 53.7 mi, 007° N
Bighorn National Forest (National Forest) — 54.4 mi, 007° N · 1.1M acres
Castle Gardens (Attraction) — 58.8 mi, 154° SE
Cloud Peak Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 60.7 mi, 043° NE · 192k acres
The Arch (Attraction) — 61.1 mi, 083° E
Loch-Katrine Bird Reservation (Nature Reserve) — 62.1 mi, 326° NW
National Museum of Military Vehicles (Museum) — 67.8 mi, 256° W
Vietnam Memorial (Monument) — 69.4 mi, 323° NW
Horner Site (Historic Ruins) — 70.5 mi, 326° NW
Draper Natural History Museum (Museum) — 71.0 mi, 322° NW
Buffalo Bill Museum (Museum) — 71.0 mi, 322° NW
Plains Indian Museum (Museum) — 71.1 mi, 322° NW
Heart Mountain Relocation Center Memorial (Monument) — 75.9 mi, 330° NW

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