Jackson
— — the town the antlers point you toward.
Not only on a wall.
“At the south end of Jackson Hole, in the valley the Tetons drop into. The town square has four arches built from elk antlers, shed each spring on the National Elk Refuge just north of town. The Snake River runs west of the highway, and the road to Grand Teton and Yellowstone leaves town in that direction. Six thousand two hundred feet above sea level. The light at evening turns the range a long pink.
Jackson, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Jackson is the county seat of Teton County, Wyoming, at the south end of the Jackson Hole valley between the Teton Range to the west and the Gros Ventre Range to the east. The town sits at six thousand two hundred and thirty-seven feet of elevation, with a year-round population around eleven thousand. Grand Teton National Park begins immediately north of town; Yellowstone is fifty-seven miles further on the same road. The National Elk Refuge, established in 1912, borders the town on its northern edge.
The valley is high enough to keep summer evenings cool and to hold snow on the peaks into July. The Tetons rise nearly seven thousand feet straight out of the valley floor, with Grand Teton itself at thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five feet and no foothills to soften the line. Winter temperatures regularly drop below zero Fahrenheit, and the average annual snowfall at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is around four hundred and fifty inches. The air is dry and thin year through.
The town keeps two clocks. Summer runs Memorial Day to early October, when the parks open, the float trips run on the Snake, and the chairlift on Snow King carries hikers to the ridge. Winter runs December into April, when Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Snow King are both operating, and the elk herd settles onto the National Refuge by the thousand. Late September brings the bugle of rutting elk in the meadows and the first dusting of snow on the Grand.