Flagpole installation inLaramie, WY

Flagpoles in Laramie

A university town at 7,165 ft in a basin between the Laramie Range and the Snowy Range, with I-80 running straight through it. We cover Laramie and the Albany County area, including the University of Wyoming campus, Old Main and War Memorial Stadium, the downtown historic district along Ivinson Avenue and Grand Avenue, the Ivinson Mansion, the Wyoming Territorial Prison site and the I-80 climb east over the Summit.

Wind here. Laramie sits in a high, open mountain basin area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Laramie designs to 115 mph as a three-second gust at Exposure C, the same figure as Cheyenne, and the same figure means something different here. When WYDOT shuts I-80 over the Summit to light high-profile vehicles, the same air is crossing every flagpole in the valley, and it happens often enough to be a maintenance plan rather than a story. Altitude is the other half of it. At 7,165 ft the sun is harder on fabric and on finish than anywhere else we work, so we push anodized over mill finish here and raise flag replacement early in the conversation rather than late. The frost line runs deeper in this basin than it does out on the plains fifty miles east, so the hole is not the same day's work even where the wind figure is identical.

Most of the people who call us from Laramie are university and school buildings, county and city facilities, downtown businesses, hotels and restaurants, medical offices, churches, veterans posts and ranch properties out in the basin.