GMA Visits Wyoming
July 24 -- Good Morning America's Lara Spencer roams Wyoming, a state known for cowboys, Yellowstone National Park and for being the first state to give women the right to vote.
Spencer got behind the wheel of her red convertible and took to the roads of the place called "The Equality State," as part of ABCNEWS' "In Search of America: 50 States, One Nation, One Year" project.
Beautiful Wyoming has got it all — mountains, forests, lakes, waterfalls, geysers, even boiling pools of mud.
Wyoming is rich in natural resources and it's the No. 1 producer of coal in America. In fact, if the entire world relied upon it, Wyoming's coal supply could last 200 years.
The state's other natural resource — an abundance of beautiful wildlife. You can spot antelope, elk, bison and bears in Wyoming. There are more than one million big game animals in the state and they outnumber people two to one. The whole state has fewer than 500,000 people .
Overcrowding just isn't a problem in Wyoming, where some towns hold just a few hundred people. And folks say it pays to be good to one another since there aren't that many of them around.
Special People, Special Places
Vice President Dick Cheney and Harrison Ford both live in Jackson Hole, Wyo., which, come winter, turns into a wonderland that is home to some of the best skiing and snowboarding in the world.
There are plenty of noteworthy stops in Wyoming. Stop by the Yellowstone Drugstore in Shoshoni and you'll get the milk-shake treat of your life. The store's been around since 1909 and last year alone it served more than 65,000 shakes. Its one-day record: 727 cold and frosty ones.
You can also go for a dip in Mother Nature's Jacuzzi. The world's largest mineral hot springs is located in Thermopolis.
It's no surprise that the enchanting Yellowstone National Park (www.travelyellowstone.com) draws the most visitors to Wyoming each year, more than three million of them. The park is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, but it's not the only important park in Wyoming.
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