Wyoming rattler road trip

Wyoming rattler road trip

Fall’s cooler temperatures send Wyoming’s prairie rattlesnakes slithering home to hang out closer to their dens. “Your highest occurrence of crossing paths with the rattlesnake is going to be May, June, July, August and September,” said Matt Rasmussen, vice president of the Wyoming Herpetological Society.  For ophidiophobes — those with a fear of snakes — hoping for a firm date, when all rattlers tuck themselves in for winter, Rasmussen says the…