In recent years, some of the most affordable places to live in Wyoming have become the most expensive.

In many cases, those price increases happened quickly. (Source Home Stratousphere).

The Zillow Home Value Index and the data on Wyoming’s high-end property markets is absolutely revealing.

One of the most striking things to note is the consistent rise in home values over the last 15 years, with some towns nearly doubling in value.

From 2020 to 2025, several towns saw over 45% appreciation in just five years—a rate of return that significantly outpaces most traditional investments.

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If you had invested in property hopping to take advantage, you would have made some serious money.

Let's start with the biggest jump of all, not surprisingly, Jackson saw an 89.26% jump in home prices over a 5-year period.

In the past five years, Cheyenne's home prices have seen a significant jump of 39.1% over five years.

Fort Bridger home price values jumped 55.88% in just the past five years.

During that same time, the cute little town of Buffalo, Wyoming, saw prices jump 49.66% .

Powell, Wyoming, saw a price jump of just over 57%.

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Ranchester jumped 45.81% in just five years.

Even the tiny town of Kaycee saw a significant price increase.

Nobody is surprised to see that Sheridan's prices leaped 41.54%.

Cody, Wyoming, saw a 62.55% jump.

Dayton, Wyoming, 43%.

Here is a shocker for you - Dubois saw a 69% increase in real estate prices during that time. Perhaps because they are so close to the Tetons.

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Pinedale, 55.76%.

Afton was close behind.

BUT HOLD ON - Let's go far to the other side of the state and look a the dumpy little town, if you can call it that, of Rozette. They saw a 46.33%percentage % increase in prices.

Investing in Daniel would have worked hard over the years, with 61.15% appreciation in just the past five years.

Hulett's Rogues Gallery Astounding Western History Collection

A gallery of fine art and found Western history

Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods

Vintage Wyoming Movie Posters

I love walking down the hallway of a modern movie theater and looking at the old posters of vintage movies.

That got me thinking about old Westerns based on Wyoming. How many of those posters are still around?

Many are, and many are for sale online, if you want to decorate your home, or even home theater, with classic and mostly forgotten movie posters.

Most of these films were made before the era of television. Hollywood was cranking out these things as fast as they could.

The plots, the scrips, the acting, directing, and editing were SO BAD, they were good.

Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods

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