- The town of Jackson chose the principal all female town board in 1920. Wyoming was additionally the principal state in the country to permit ladies the option to cast a ballot, serve on juries, and serve in a position of authority. To this end Wyoming is known as the “Balance State”!
- Jackson is home to the world’s-longest running shootout. Starting in 1957, the shootout should be visible Monday-Saturday on Town Square right up ’til the present time!
- There have been many component films shot on the spot in Jackson Hole including: “Shane,” “Rough IV,” “Django Unchained,” and “Whichever Way You Can.”
- The four notorious prong curves on Jackson Hole town square each contain around 2,000 horns and weigh very nearly 12,000 pounds!
- Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) is the main air terminal in the United States that is found completely inside a public park.
- Public, governmentally claimed land, for example, public parks and public backwoods makes up 97% of Teton County.
- One of our neighborhood ski resorts, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, has the longest ceaseless vertical ascent of any ski resort in the United States. It acquires 4,139 feet of height from the valley floor to the highest point of the cable car!
- The National Elk Refuge is the last objective of the second biggest elk relocation in the mainland United States (just about 9,000 elk). In the cold weather months, it is likewise home to the biggest single crowd of buffalo that is under government the executives (more than 1,000 buffalo!)
- Whitewater boating is remembered to have been developed on the Snake River, here in Jackson in 1811, albeit the primary business trip didn’t occur until 1941.