JACKSON, Wyo. — In 2025, Wyoming vehicles will be donning new license plates.
Wyoming’s license plate design is changed every eight years, in accordance with state law. Starting in 2025, all Wyoming motorists will be required to use the state’s new license plate design.
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) has chosen to simplify the design of the state’s license plates. The new series will feature the Wyoming state flag in navy-blue with white text, and the Square Top Mountain will be gone. Steamboat, the bucking horse, will still be a fixture. The new plates are designed for law enforcement officers to easily read.
“I like the new design with the Wyoming flag, it’s totally different from what they have done it the past,” Teton County Treasurer Katie Smits told Buckrail.
According to Smits, owners of any license plates numbered below 10,000, can keep those digits for life, as long as they re-register for the new plate series. At the beginning of a new plate series, owners of reserved plates have the entire first year to register their low plate numbers. Residents with five-digit plates (10,000 and over) will be assigned a new number. Additionally, only four-digit plates can be personalized with certain letters or numbers.
According to WYDOT, each county in the state has the option to save or hold back a sequence of numbers as “reserved.” Any plate numbers that are not registered by the cut-off date become available to the public, and the Treasurer will decide how to disperse them. More information will become available closer to the next plate series in 2025.
It is possible that a non-reserved number (i.e. passenger #8501 or truck #6750) is registered to two different vehicles and two different owners at the same time. Both plates are legal because one is the 2017 Green Lake Series and one is the new 2025 series. The reserved and non-reserved plates for the new 2025 series will be available for those vehicles that are registered for January 2026 or after. The reserved numbers will be held for the full year of 2025, through Dec. 31, 2025.
Teton County plates serve as an indicator of just how much the valley has grown in the last 30 years. According to U.S. Census data, Jackson’s population nearly doubled from 1990 to 2021, and more plates were issued from 2010 to 2022 than in all the previous years combined.
