The permanent campus for Wyoming Catholic College is yet to be built on the vast and beautiful Broken Anvil Ranch.  We are working hard raising the funds necessary to build on the site.  (For more information on the future campus, please see under Friends & Development.)  Thanks to the foresight of the Bishop of Cheyenne, Most Rev. David L. Ricken, and to the generosity of Lander’s Catholics, we have been provided with an interim campus: the parish of Holy Rosary Church (pictured here) on the southern edge of the town.  Here, our entire program will unfold over the next few years until adequate facilities have been built at the permanent campus.  During the years at the interim campus, however, everything essential to the WCC curriculum will be provided to students—all the courses and programs described in the Wyoming Catholic College Catalog will be offered, and everything pertinent to implementing our vision will be accommodated (though not as conveniently as it will be on the permanent campus).

The interim campus at Holy Rosary Church is near enough the downtown to allow easy access on foot or bicycle to its specialty shops, book stores, restaurants and cafes, and other places such as the NOLS headquarters, the Lander Art Center, and the Fremont County Library.  Yet the parish, being set off on its own ample property, is blessed with the contemplative peace and quiet so necessary for the common life of students and teachers.

 

The grounds of the church are spacious and beautifully landscaped, with pleasant walks in the vicinity.

 

The church (below) is the religious center for liturgies and devotional exercises throughout the school year.  Students are encouraged to participate in the WCC Liturgical Choir.

 

The St. Benedict Residence for men and the St. Scholastica Residence for women are a ten minute walk from the interim campus grounds.  The walk leads along a peaceful side road that passes Dillon Park, which has basketball courts as well as grassy fields for soccer, flag football, and other intramural sports.  The top of Main Street (the beginning of Lander’s quaint downtown) is also a ten minute walk from the student residences. 

In order to accommodate growth in the student body, we have also aquired the use of Baldwin Building in downtown Lander, which will house faculty offices, several more classrooms, a large library and lounge, and a cafe.  The Baldwin building also houses a book store and is located in the heart of Lander's "old West" Main Street.

 

The outdoor programs of WCC are operated from our interim site in Lander, with the NOLS Freshman Orientation Program taking place in the wilderness.  Until WCC has built the stables and the indoor and outdoor riding arenas (which are included in the first phase of the campus construction), WCC’s Equestrian Program takes place three mornings a week at nearby Central Wyoming College, the state's premier riding school.