Jackson Hole

My favorite place in the world.  It was also my home for about 6 years.  Jackson is a special community that in such a delightful way, never changes.  It holds my dearest of friends and Tetons that are like no other.

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ELLE DECOR Goes to Jackson Hole

This rugged Wyoming town reveals its beauty best in summer

Written by Vicky Lowry 

Photo: Stuart Kelly/Alamy

If your idea of the perfect summer vacation is to lie on the beach and read bestsellers or to visit architectural landmarks by day and Michelin-starred restaurants by night, you may not think Jackson Hole is your cup of tea—at least on paper. The landmarks in this photogenic corner of Wyoming, which hugs the borders of Utah and Idaho and lies just south of Yellowstone park, are of the natural kind: 13,000-foot-high snowcapped peaks so jagged they look like shark’s teeth and shimmering lakes rarely disturbed by boat traffic. Wildlife sightings—of bear, elk, moose, wolves, coyotes, and the occasional Big Horn sheep—begin a hundred yards from the airport.
This is big-sky country, with miles of woodland and scrub-covered plains and the undulating ribbon of the Snake River, world famous for fly-fishing, never far from sight. It’s how the American West—the mythic, grandiose West of Wallace Stegner novels and Ansel Adams photographs—looked pre-sprawl, and the cumulative effect of being in the midst of such raw, unpopulated land is to calm the nerves and lift the spirit. Frankly, with all the hiking, rafting, fishing, horseback riding, and good, old-fashioned sightseeing from behind the wheel of a car, there’s too much to do in Jackson Hole to have time to read a book (save that for the plane trip home).
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