Casper

Casper is a city in and the province seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is nicknamed "The Oil City" and has a long history of oil boomtown and cowpoke culture, going back to the advancement of the adjacent Salt Creek Oil Field. In 2010, Casper was named the most astounding positioned family-accommodating little city in the West, and positioned eighth by and large in the country in Forbes magazine's rundown of "the best little urban communities to raise a family". Casper is situated in east-focal Wyoming at the foot of Casper Mountain, the north end of the Laramie Mountain Range, along the North Platte River. Casper has three areas offering theater: the Gertrude Krampert Theater at Casper College, Stage III Community Theater, and the Casper Events Center where a yearly arrangement of visiting Broadway appears, Broadway in Casper, can be seen. Casper is home to the Troopers, a drum and cornet corps in Drum Corps International, and the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra. Amid the late spring months, Casper's City Band performs free shows Thursday nighttimes at Washington Park, climate allowing.