RKS

Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport

ICAO KRKS41.5942°N 109.0650°W6,765 ft / 2,062 mMedium airport
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Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport (IATA: RKS, ICAO: KRKS) is a medium airport in Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States. It opened in Jul 1942. It has 2 runways; the longest is 10,002 ft (3,049 m). In 2025 it handled 52 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1942–1942
JUL 1942
OpenedSouthwest Wyoming Regional Airport opens.
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
09/27103° / 283° · LIT
LENGTH10,002 ft3,049 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt
03/21045° / 225° · LIT
LENGTH5,228 ft1,594 mWIDTH75 ft23 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
36K
32K
36K
46K
48K
23K
33K
30K
32K
43K
52K
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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
100 km200 km300 km400 km100 mi200 miDEN · Denver International Airport · 259 mi / 417 kmDENRKS

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RKS. From the Wikipedia article “Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers52K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,072of 3,974 · #478 North America · #323 USLongest runway10,002 ft3,049 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,039of 29,823 · =225 North America · =175 USElevation6,765 ft2,062 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#615of 43,341 · #298 North America · #209 USAgeOpened 19422026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,791of 15,079 · =924 North America · =885 USRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =435 North America · =391 US
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
ASOSASOS118.375
RDOCASPER RDO122.600
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.800