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Riverside Wyoming Map

Explore Riverside, 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 Riverside, Wyoming

How to Use This Riverside, Wyoming Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Riverside, 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 Riverside.

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	Riverside
State	Wyoming (WY)
County	Carbon County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Mountain Time (America/Denver)

Latitude	41.217465
Longitude	-106.778928
Population	66
Density	94.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	82325
Area Code	307
County Seat	Rawlins
School District	Carbon County School District 2

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About Riverside, Wyoming

Riverside is a locality in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. It is a small community with a population of 66. The population density is 94.4 people per km². Riverside is located at 41.2175°N, 106.7789°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Riverside is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 82325.

Riverside emerges from the high-desert scrub as a quiet collection of structures defined by the persistent, cold pulse of Badger Creek. It lies 62.0 miles west of Laramie, WY (from Laramie, WY: bearing 264°T), and is situated 50.7 miles north of Steamboat Springs. The landscape surrounding Riverside is dominated by an expansive, sage-dusted plateau that stretches toward the horizon, where the distant silhouettes of the Rocky Mountains provide a jagged, hazy boundary to the west. Air here possesses a thin, crystalline clarity, turning the golden light of late afternoon into a sharp, gilded edge that defines every fence post and blade of dry grass. Three miles to the north, the terrain dips into the shadowed, rugged topography of Deep Draw, while the nearby Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area offers a stark reminder of the wild, untamed nature of the Wyoming interior. Two miles away, the quiet surface of Lordier Reservoir holds the reflection of an immense, darkening sky, acting as a silent anchor in an otherwise restless, wind-swept terrain.

Economic life in Riverside remains tethered to the rugged demands of the land, echoing a history of extraction and agricultural endurance that has long defined this high-altitude frontier. The local pace is dictated by the seasons, shifting from the harsh, isolating grip of winter to the brief, industrious intensity of the growing months. Residents maintain a way of life that prizes self-reliance, with the rhythm of the day measured by the movement of cattle and the maintenance of small-scale operations that have persisted for generations. While the influence of modern industry has touched the region, the character of the place is forged by the quiet persistence of those who choose to live where the wind carries the scent of dry earth and sagebrush. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, sparse elegance, leaving space for the silence of the plains to settle over the valley floor long after the sun has retreated behind the distant, shadowed peaks.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 2.5 mi, 184° S · 4,563 acres
Medicine Bow National Forest (National Forest) — 5.4 mi, 179° S · 1.1M acres
Encampment River Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 6.0 mi, 190° S · 10k acres
Huston Park Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 9.3 mi, 210° SW · 31k acres
Fire Lookout (Historic Ruins) — 13.3 mi, 261° W
Routt National Forest (National Forest) — 14.8 mi, 180° S · 1.1M acres
Prospect Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 17.9 mi, 111° E · 1,136 acres
United Airlines Flight 409 Memorial Plaque (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 071° E
Libby Flats Observation Point (Viewpoint) — 26.4 mi, 071° E
Billie Class Stamp Mill (Historic Ruins) — 27.0 mi, 068° E
Wheeler Memorial (Monument) — 30.1 mi, 198° S
Green Otter Gallery (Arts Centre) — 42.5 mi, 142° SE
Dan Birkholz Memorial (Monument) — 44.5 mi, 109° E
Strawberry Hotsprings (Attraction) — 45.6 mi, 185° S
River Run (Public Artwork) — 50.8 mi, 183° S

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