Powell, WY Emergency Mobile Kitchen Rentals and Dishwashing Trailers

When a permanent kitchen in Powell is closed for renovation, repairs or an equipment failure, a rented mobile commercial kitchen lets meal service continue from a trailer parked on site. If the work spills into Lovell, 19 miles from here, or into Cody, a kitchen rented here can be planned around both sites.

Sizing starts with how many meals you serve. The 24ft Mobile Kitchen and 38ft Mobile Kitchen suit different kitchen volumes, and the 28ft Mobile Kitchen adds capacity for larger operations; compare their equipment lists and power needs before you choose.

If the dish room is closed too, add a warewashing trailer. The 38ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer needs 220V, single phase, 300A; plan a drain route sized for continuous washing. Basin, 44 miles away, has the same problem when the dish room closes before the cooking line does.

When a compressor quits, product loss follows within hours. Emergency refrigerated trailers, such as the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F, are rented to restaurants, hotels, hospitals and institutions around Powell. In Worland, where Washakie County has 3 federal declarations on record, the call for emergency refrigeration begins the same way.

A typical January night in Park County drops to 11°F, a typical July afternoon reaches 76°F, and the county gets about 22 inches of precipitation in a year (NOAA, 1991 to 2020). July highs run about 7 degrees cooler than the average Wyoming county. Hard freezes are routine, so the water hookup is planned with heat tape or an insulated hose, and wastewater lines are kept from freezing between uses.

Rental customers in Powell are commercial, institutional and public: nursing homes, municipal agencies, jails and school districts. Each has its own pressure points, from a nursing home kitchen rental during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Ranchester (about 1,176 residents) and Thermopolis (about 2,748 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

CMS lists 2 hospitals in Park County, all critical access: Cody Regional Health and Powell Valley Hospital. The county also has 2 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 194 beds. The National Center for Education Statistics counts 17 public schools with about 3,971 students, in districts such as Park County School District # 6, Park County School District # 1 and Park County School District #16.

• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: kitchen upgrades or code corrections that take the line out of service
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: public buildings under renovation
• Jail and Detention Center Kitchen Trailer Rentals: renovation work that must be phased without stopping meals
• School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: equipment failures that close a single school's kitchen mid-year

Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.

Powell is the 14th most populous of the 54 Wyoming places this site covers, with an estimated 6,551 residents in 2024. The city spans roughly 4.3 square miles in Park County. Across Park County's 6,939 square miles, 2 places are covered here, together about 16,942 residents, with Cody the largest. Population density is roughly 1,528 people per square mile. Cheyenne, the Wyoming capital, is about 321 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. The nearest larger place covered here is Cody, about 22 miles away in a straight line.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

A shared kitchen need can span several communities. The nearest places to Powell are listed with their straight-line distance; road distance and delivery time will differ.

• Byron, WY: about 12 miles from Powell, about 577 residents
• Lovell, WY: about 19 miles from Powell, about 2,366 residents
• Cody, WY: about 22 miles from Powell, about 10,391 residents
• Greybull, WY: about 39 miles from Powell, about 1,715 residents
• Basin, WY: about 44 miles from Powell, about 1,337 residents
• Worland, WY: about 65 miles from Powell, about 4,765 residents

Moving the job to Sheridan or Buffalo changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.

• Access steps: ramp setup takes about 4 to 6 hours and stairs 5 to 15 minutes, so say early if the door needs either.
• Power: check the panel and service against the trailer's listed requirement before anything is scheduled.
• Food deliveries: plan where suppliers will unload so they do not block the trailer door.

See the site planning guides for power, water, wastewater and placement detail.

The nearest Wyoming counties to Powell are Big Horn County (41 miles), Hot Springs County (74 miles) and Washakie County (81 miles).

• Big Horn County: about 41 miles from Powell, 2 FEMA declarations since records began, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Hot Springs County: about 74 miles from Powell, 2 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Washakie County: about 81 miles from Powell, 3 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Mobile kitchens in Powell come first, and the rest follows from the site. Where crews live and work on site, remote workforce housing with multi-use crew support trailers (for example the Office, Sleeper, Shower and Restroom Trailer) and laundry trailer rentals (the 24ft Laundry Trailer) can sit beside the kitchen. We confirm the exact unit and price in a written quote.