Visit the Walt Longmire Office

ON THE HISTORIC PLAZA of the original Las Vegas, a wood-and-glass door marked as the Absaroka County Sheriff’s Department arrests visitors. For devotees of Longmire, the A&E crime drama based on Craig Johnson’s mystery series, the unassuming brick building is the hallowed spot where Sheriff Walt Longmire kept the peace in the fictional town of Durant, Wyoming. In reality, the first floor of the 19th-century Veeder Building once housed lawyers’ offices and Hofmeister’s Grocery. Upstairs carries its own lore. According to the building’s co-owner Ann Ennis, Theodore Roosevelt took a bath in one of the rooms when he came to town for the Rough Riders Reunion of 1899. Ennis and her husband purchased the Veeder in 2009, drawn by its rich history. “Someday our country is going to discover Las Vegas,” she vows. The upstairs briefly served as a set for Longmire before Ennis converted it into an apartment. The ground floor houses El Zócalo Gallery, a local art cooperative, renamed the “Byington Maes Gallery” for the show. “They didn’t think we sounded Wyoming enough,” explains gallery member Meredith Britt. When Longmire ended in 2017, Ennis left the sheriff’s decals on the door. “It’s a great tourist attraction,” she says. Today, fans from all over the world stop to snap photos. “They wish they would have kept making the series,” Britt says.