Golf in Wright

Wright is a planned community in Campbell County in the heart of the Powder River Basin coal country, built by ARCO in the 1970s to house the workforce for the nearby coal mining operations. The community's planned origins give it a uniformity and completeness unusual for a small Wyoming town — wide streets, community parks, recreational facilities, and housing designed as an integrated package. The surrounding Powder River Basin landscape is flat, windswept, and defined by the massive coal strip mines and their associated infrastructure. Wright's energy-dependent economy has experienced the boom-bust cycles common to Wyoming's extraction-industry communities. The energy companies operating near Wright have contributed to community infrastructure in ways uncommon for towns of its size, and the golf club represents one of many quality-of-life investments made to support workforce recruitment in a remote energy-producing location.