Lakeview North, Wyoming, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lakeview North, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Lakeview North lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lakeview North — the short answer
Lakeview North, Wyoming: USDA zone 5a, about 158 days between hard freezes, across 549 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~158
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 549 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 5a is Lakeview North's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lakeview North's 158-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lakeview North
Each reading below is measured for Lakeview North itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLakeview North runs about 158 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLakeview North sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Lakeview North is in
Lakeview North sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lakeview North's own centroid rather than borrowed from Platte County.
What Grows in Lakeview North
Every plant below cleared Lakeview North's own zone 5a and its 158-day season. Each card opens that plant's Wyoming profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lakeview North?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Lakeview North
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lakeview North. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Wheatland Travel PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Allen's Parts SupplyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Wendover Relay StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- LARAMIE PEAK MOTORS LLCBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- BOB RUWART MOTORSBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- Bob Ruwart Motors, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- 24-067-07baa01Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- Parklane VillageUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Basins, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- STALLION OILFIELD SERVICESBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- WHEATCO SALES AND SERVICE - WHEATCO SALES AND SERVICE -Brownfields · 2.2 mi
- Wheatco Sales and ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lakeview North's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Lakeview North.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Lakeview North
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lakeview North
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lakeview North
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lakeview North, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Lakeview North. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Lakeview North
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakeview North average
Your land is one point inside Lakeview North
Everything above resolves to Lakeview North as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 549 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Lakeview North Average
Lakeview North Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lakeview North
- ●One soil character for all of Lakeview North
- ●Frost dates read at Lakeview North's scale: May 5 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lakeview North's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lakeview North
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lakeview North, Wyoming — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Lakeview North — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakeview North average
How we know this about Lakeview North
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Lakeview North’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Lakeview North
When does frost risk typically end in Lakeview North?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeview North typically lands around May 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 26.
When is the first frost in Lakeview North?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lakeview North typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 158 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lakeview North?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lakeview North sees about 158 frost-free days — roughly May 5 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 26 to Sep 26, about 123 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lakeview North?
The federal record around Lakeview North shows 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lakeview North?
From about Sep 10 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lakeview North's scale — its 5a band and its 158-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lakeview North's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Lakeview North’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lakeview North's own scale — its own ~158-day season between 28°F freezes, the 549 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lakeview North's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lakeview North's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 5 and Oct 10 and the ~158-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lakeview North, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lakeview North's boundary and the 549 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~158-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lakeview North's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lakeview North's 549 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Platte County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Platte County
- The growing challenges every Wyoming grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Wyoming
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Platte County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lakeview North's 549 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lakeview North you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 549 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.6 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Lakeview North-wide figureread your own land →
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