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When does it usually start snowing in the Rockies/Utah/Wyoming?

I've been pining to go back to Deadwood and that HPT stop looks like a good time, but the drive from Vegas (I'm a sicko) looks like it'd be rife with problems.

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I'm a sicko too (drove from Minneapolis to South-East Idaho every two weeks for seven months - October to June). While it is possible to get snow in mountainous areas in all but the 3 or 4 hottest months of the year the risk of bigger storms in the areas you'd be driving through would be relatively low in mid-October, but no impossible. Do you have any experience driving in snow? If so, you're probably okay. I'm giving serious consideration to playing the Colorado event and if I do I'll probably drive. Potential weather will be low on my list of considerations although it will be a consideration. But like I said, I'm a sicko too. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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I grew up in the Northeast. Driving during snowstorms is nothing new.

I just don't want to have to bother with it if I do get the chance to go, especially since I'd be taking a different (new) route than the one I took to get from Deadwood to Vegas.

Then, I went from the Black Hills down back-road-highways to 25 to get to Cheyenne then went around Denver through Colorado to Utah and Nevada (and hated it, the Colorado air pressure damn near killed me).

Now, I'd be going up to Salt Lake City, from there heading east then north to Casper, then take 25 and 90 to Deadwood. Basically, the route mapquest gives if you do a straight "Las Vegas, NV" to "Deadwood, SD" search.