Are electric skateboards legal in Wyoming?
Named in law, with no operating rules. Wyoming does the opposite of every other state we have read. Everywhere else the skateboard falls INTO the definition of a motor vehicle and is trapped by a registration it cannot obtain. Wyoming writes it OUT of that definition by name — and then writes no statewide rule for it at all, handing the question to local authorities.
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What the law says
| What the text says | Section | |
|---|---|---|
| Expressly not a motor vehicle | “Motor vehicle” means “every vehicle which is self-propelled except vehicles moved solely by human power, electric bicycles or <b>motorized skateboards</b>.” Three exceptions, and the skateboard is one of them. No registration requirement can therefore reach it. | Wyo. Stat. § 31-1-101(a)(xv), (xxix) |
| And it has its own definition | “Motorized skateboard” means “a self-propelled device which has a motor or engine, a deck on which a person may ride and at least two wheels in contact with the ground and which is not otherwise defined in this act as a motor vehicle, motorcycle, electric bicycle, motor-driven cycle or pedestrian vehicle.” | Wyo. Stat. § 31-1-101(a)(xv), (xxix) |
| Excluded from the motorcycle class too | For registration and titling, “motorcycle” expressly excludes “mopeds, motorized skateboards, multipurpose vehicles, electric bicycles and off-road recreational vehicles”. The legislature closed the second door as deliberately as the first. | Wyo. Stat. § 31-1-101(a)(xv), (xxix) |
| ⚠ But no statewide rule says where you may ride | We read the whole of Title 31 and found no provision telling you where a motorized skateboard may or may not be operated. The silence is the answer at state level — and it is not the same silence as a state that never wrote anything, because here the device is named three times. | Wyo. Stat. § 31-1-101(a)(xv), (xxix) |
| The decision sits with your town | Local authorities are expressly empowered to make rules “regulating persons upon skates, coasters, sleds, <b>motorized skateboards</b> and other toy vehicles”. That is where the answer lives in Wyoming, and this page does not cover municipal ordinances. | Wyo. Stat. § 31-5-... |
Each row is the statute's own content, reduced to plain wording where it is long and quoted directly where the exact words matter. The section in the last column is a link to the text.
Electric skateboards in stock in the United States
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Sources
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Wyo. Stat. § 31-1-101(a)(xv), (xxix) — Definitions — motor vehicle, motorized skateboard.
Official source, read 2026-09-23.
Read from the Wyoming Legislature’s own PDF of Title 31 (542 pages). -
Wyo. Stat. § 31-5-... — Powers of local authorities — toy vehicles.
Official source, read 2026-09-23.
Same consolidation. The grant of local power lists the motorized skateboard among “toy vehicles”; we quote it because it is the only place in the title that says anything about operating one.
Every source on this page is the text as published by the legislature or the state agency itself. Open them.
How Wyoming compares
The same four questions for Wyoming and its neighbours, each linked to its own page and citations. All 99 jurisdictions we have read are side by side on Compare all jurisdictions.
| Jurisdiction | Status | Helmet | Speed limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | Named only | no rule naming the device | — |
| Colorado | Prohibited | no rule naming the device | — |
| Idaho | Unaddressed | no rule naming the device | — |
| Montana | Regulated | no rule naming the device | — |
| Nebraska | Unaddressed | no rule naming the device | — |
| South Dakota | Unaddressed | no rule naming the device | — |
| Utah | Regulated | “An individual under 21 years old may not operate or ride the following on a highway unles | — |
Compare all 99 jurisdictions →
The spread is the point. These are neighbouring jurisdictions regulating the same object, and they do not agree on what it is, how fast it may go, who may ride it, or whether it may be ridden at all. A rider who crosses a state line is, quite often, subject to a different legal category rather than a stricter version of the same one — which is why a single national answer to this question does not exist and why anyone offering you one has stopped reading the law.
It also explains why so many rows say the device is unaddressed. Most vehicle codes were written before this machine existed, and a legislature that has not revisited them has not thereby permitted anything — it has left the question to a general classification and to your city.
What about a Onewheel?
No text we read for Wyoming names a board with a single wheel. The reading above is for electric skateboards; whether a Onewheel falls in the same class, another one or none is a question the statutes here do not answer, and neither do we. 11 jurisdictions do name it — Are Onewheels legal?
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What this page does not tell you
- It is not legal advice, and it never says you may ride. It says what the statute says, and links it.
- It does not cover municipal law. Cities regulate sidewalks, parks, paths and often these devices by name. Those rules sit on top of everything above.
- It does not cover private property, insurance, or what happens after an accident.
- It may be out of date. Every source carries the day we read it. A statute amended since then will not have updated itself here.
Across the border: Montana · South Dakota · Nebraska · Colorado · Utah · Idaho. Every other jurisdiction: the full list.
Questions this raises
Are electric skateboards legal in Wyoming?
A statute defines the device and takes it out of the vehicle code, but no provision says where it may be ridden or under what conditions. The silence is the answer, and it is not the same silence as a state that never wrote anything at all. Wyoming does the opposite of every other state we have read. Everywhere else the skateboard falls INTO the definition of a motor vehicle and is trapped by a registration it cannot obtain. Wyoming writes it OUT of that definition by name — and then writes no statewide rule for it at all, handing the question to local authorities.
Is a Onewheel legal in Wyoming?
No statute we read for Wyoming names a board with a single wheel, so the law there does not answer directly. For electric skateboards, the status we found is: named in law, with no operating rules. Only 11 of the 99 jurisdictions we read name a one-wheel board: Utah, Quebec, Queensland, Tasmania, Seattle, South Korea, Belgium, British Columbia, New York, Victoria, the Netherlands.
Do I need a helmet in Wyoming?
No rule naming this device addresses helmets in the sources we have read for Wyoming. Your municipality may have one.
How fast am I allowed to go in Wyoming?
No speed limit specific to this device appears in the sources we have read for Wyoming.
Does this cover city rules?
No. This page reads state, provincial or national law only. Municipal codes frequently add rules — on sidewalks, parks and paths especially — and where the state has written nothing, the city has written everything.
How do I check this myself?
Open the links in the sources below. Every row in the table above names the section it comes from, and every source shows the date we read it. That is the whole point of the page: you should not have to take our word for it.