Coal Creek Coffee Downtown

laramie sits at over 7,000 feet elevation, which means the winters are long, the university of wyoming keeps the population younger than you'd expect, and good coffee isn't a luxury so much as a basic requirement. coal creek coffee on grand avenue has been holding its own in that context for a while now, and locals seem to have decided it's the one. you don't have to take anyone's word for it, the foot traffic on grand ave tells the story more plainly than a recommendation could. what keeps people coming back to an independent shop in a mid-sized wyoming town is usually consistency and a lack of pretension, and coal creek appears to have both. worth going for a late morning flat white when the downtown sidewalks are finally starting to warm up.