Easiest way to get to Lander or Ten Sleep from PA
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I live in South East PA and I am trying to figure out the most logical way to get there. I see there are a couple different airports to fly into for a short trip. There seems to be no direct flight. Would it be easier to just fly into to Denver and just drive? |
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In the past when I’ve come from the east coast for short trips I’ve flown into Denver. It’s a bit of a drive (~5 to Lander, ~6.5 to Ten Sleep) but wayyy easier than trying to fly into Jackson or Cheyenne. |
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Yeah I feel like price and time-wise, Denver is one of the easier options. It's a annoying place to try to fly too. Cheaper flights and car rentals from DEN, but then a 7ish hour drive up there. I feel like you can fly somewhere that's 3-4 hours away (like Casper), but that's usually way more expensive, and/or some long flight connection. Also make sure if you drive from Denver (or anywhere), stay on the bigger roads - sometimes google takes people on 'shorter' but more direct 4-wheel-drive roads that end up taking longer, and/or get your car stuck... |
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You can also fly in to SLC. It is a shorter drive to Lander, about 4.5 hours, but probably a little further to 10sleep, more like 7 hours. Wild Iris is on the way to Lander from SLC, probably 4 hours. Sometimes you can get decent tickets to Jackson as it has some direct flights from major hubs. It would be shorter to either place from there. |
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Easiest way is to fly into Riverton. |
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Patrick Johnson wrote: Really? Compare flight times and cost: (links provided 'cause the images are small) PHL -> RIW https://tinyurl.com/2pmbujv6 PHL -> DEN https://tinyurl.com/2zbflujx |
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Billings is an option for Ten Sleep. |
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Daniel Kaye wrote: It's a 2 1/2 hour drive from Casper to Lander, but it's like $400 extra to fly from Denver to Casper. |
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Try Billings. 3.5 hr drive from ten sleep. |
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You could try flying into Rapid City and drive the remainder |
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Riverton is close, but it doesn't have rental cars... |
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Before we moved out here, we used DEN as ingress/egress for a bunch of trips. We figured out that you could save $$$ by taking RTD or Uber from the airport slightly into town and picking up a car from one of the local rental offices rather than the airport office. I've found 90% of the time you can do a 1-way rental from the local office, to the airport with a minimal increase in price (making drop off and departure much easier). Something worth considering if you're road tripping. I don't recommend this at SLC since most of the major rental companies are attached to the airport. |