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Jackson
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The overgrown community of
JACKSON
is tucked in at the end of
Jackson Hole
, ten miles from Teton park's southern gate. Hunched around a tree-shaded square, marked by an arch of tangled elk antlers at each corner, the Old West-style boardwalks of
downtown
front designer boutiques, craft shops and over thirty galleries. Every summer evening, except Sundays, an amateurish shoot-out is staged in the town square (6.30pm). In winter, time is better spent visiting the
National Elk Refuge
on the north edge of town, where you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride among a 10,000-strong herd of elk (late Dec to late March daily 10am-4pm; $12 for adults and $8 for kids); rides leave from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and a combined museum-and-sleigh-ride ticket is good value at $15 adults/$11 kids.
Jackson is home base for two of Wyoming's best ski areas:
Snow King
(tel 733-5200 or 1-800/522-5464,
) is Jackson's family-friendly hill, also lit for night-skiing, while
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
(tel 733-2292 or 1-888/333-7766,
) is a massive mountain with a huge vertical drop and terrain best suited to upper intermediate-to-extreme downhillers. Summer visitors can enjoy
chairlift
rides (up 7751ft Snow King Mountain from Snow King Avenue, six blocks from the town square (daily 9am-6pm; $7), and come down by hiking, cycling or taking the thrilling 2500ft
Alpine Slide
($6 a turn), a summer toboggan run. Out at
Teton Village
, home of
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
(tel 307/733-2292), aerial
trams
swoosh their way 10,536ft to the top of Rendezvous Mountain where there's a spectacular panorama of the valley and mountain ranges (daily: June-Aug 9am-7pm; May & Sept 9am-5pm; $16). Other useful information
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