Wyoming's Coffee Scene: 11 Indie Roasters Across the Cowboy State
Wyoming is the least-populated state in the country — about 580,000 people spread across 98,000 square miles. That works out to one person for every 169 acres. In a state that empty, building any kind of specialty business is hard. Building a coffee roastery is harder.
Eleven roasters did it anyway. We mapped them across Wyoming, from the resort economy of Jackson to the prairie towns of the eastern plains, and they collectively make a coffee scene that's smaller in volume but real in commitment.
Laramie: A College-Town Coffee Triangle
Laramie has three roasters — the densest specialty coffee cluster in the state. The University of Wyoming sits in the middle of the city, and the student population gives roasters a customer base that pays attention.
Coal Creek Coffee Co. has been roasting since 1993 — older than most of the third-wave cities. Three decades of consistency in a small town is a real achievement. Motive Coffee Company and H+S Coffee Roasters round out the city with their own approaches.
For a town of 33,000, having three independent roasters is unusual. Laramie punches above its weight.
Jackson: Resort-Town Coffee
Two roasters work in Jackson, where coffee culture has to function for both the year-round local population and a heavy seasonal tourist load.
Snake River Roasting Co. is the better-known name — a multi-channel operation with a presence across Jackson Hole. Cowboy Coffee Co. leans into the regional identity with a name that explains itself.
Jackson's coffee scene is shaped by the fact that the town swells from 10,000 residents to many times that during peak season. Roasters have to serve both crowds — the regulars who know what they want and the visitors who are passing through.
Cheyenne and Casper: The Capital and the Oil Town
Two roasters in each of Wyoming's biggest cities (which are still small).
In Cheyenne — the state capital, on Wyoming's southeastern edge — Cheyenne Coffee Company and Snowy Elk Coffee Company cover the local market.
In Casper — Wyoming's second city, anchored by oil and gas — Casper Coffee Roasters and Metro Coffee Company serve a city that has a long history of cycling between boom and bust. Coffee has been one of the more durable small businesses through the cycle.
Sheridan and Cody: Northern Wyoming
Northern Wyoming brings its own roasters, serving the smaller communities that line the Bighorn Basin and the foothills of the Rockies.
Bison Union Coffee Company operates out of Sheridan, a town of 18,000 in the state's north-central plain. Cody Coffee Roaster anchors the town that serves as the eastern gateway to Yellowstone.
These are roasters operating in markets where most cafes would just buy from a wholesaler in Denver or Bozeman. That they decided to roast on-site instead says something about who runs them and who their customers are.
What Wyoming Coffee Gets Right
Wyoming's coffee scene won't show up on anyone's "underrated specialty coffee state" list. The volume is too small, the population too dispersed, the visibility too low. That's part of the point.
What Wyoming has is roasters who exist because their communities asked for them. Eleven small operations spread across nearly 100,000 square miles, each one doing the work of producing something better than gas station drip in a place where gas station drip would be the default if no one bothered.
That's a different kind of coffee culture than what Portland or Vancouver have. It's not about innovation or trend-setting. It's about coverage — making sure that even in a town of 6,000, someone is actually roasting coffee, and the people who care can find it.
There's something worth respecting in that.
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Last updated: April 2026