 Idaho's
Teton Valley lies, snug against the 13,000' peaks of the Grand
Teton range, Along the eastern border
of Idaho, a border it shares with Wyoming. Teton Valley shares
the Grand Tetons with our neighboring valley to the east, the
more famous, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Folks describe Teton Valley
as "The quiet side of the Tetons."
Teton Valley has good access to three National Forests and two National Parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone. The indigenous wildflowers, wildlife and the Grand Tetons provide the ideal backdrop for day hikes, horseback riding, mountain biking, or a quiet river float. Other activities include golfing, whitewater rafting, and melodrama and the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort.
While Jackson Hole to the east has mushroomed into a tourist megalopolis, the rustic communities of Teton Valley, on the western flank of the Tetons, has managed to develop its own character as it has morphed into an outdoors-adventure capital. The charming towns of Victor, Driggs and Tetonia are the Idaho communities of Teton and Alta Wyoming is also in the Valley.
 The
Teton Range rises majestically over Teton Valley to the east, and the Big Hole
Mountains, home to some of the region's best single-track mountain biking, flank
the valley on the west. Many trekkers use trails in the Jedadiah Smith Wilderness
to access Grand Teton National Park, particularly the park's northern peaks.
Teton Valley is the gateway to the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort, and many canyons lead into prime backcountry for hiking or skiing. In the summer, anglers wet a fly on the valley's Teton River, cowboys and cowgirls ride to their hearts' content, and Tetonia hosts a rodeo, Driggs launches its annual Hot Air Balloon Festival, and Victor lights up Independence Day with a parade and fireworks. One of the biggest events of the summer, though, occurs in August when the Targhee Bluegrass Festival takes over the slopes of the Grand Targhee Resort.
 Friendly and unpretentious, Teton Valley is for people who love the mountains enough to live, work, and play in them-including many service-industry stiffs who keep Jackson running but can't afford to live there.
6,500+ people call Teton Valley home at an elevation of 6200 ft. World class
powder skiing and snowmobiling, horseback riding, fly fishing, golf, hiking,
rock climbing, mountain biking, camping, rafting, hunting, and much, more are
available in the area.
The jagged, snow-capped Tetons to the east and the rolling Big Hole Mountains to the west cradle the gentle, flat course of the Teton River. Teton Valley fly-fishing has become a tradition of providing quality dry fly fishing for tens of thousands of fishermen in Idaho and is destination-fishing resort for people the world over.
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Grizzly attacks man outside Tetonia home
A grizzly bear mauled an eastern Idaho man who
was just outside his rural home on Tuesday, causing deep
bite and
claw wounds across the man’s back, investigators
said. Authorities did not immediately release the name
of the 33-year-old victim of the Tuesday night attack,
saying
he requested anonymity. They said he was in stable condition
and good spirits in an Idaho Falls hospital. |
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 A friendly alternative to
glitzy Jackson Hole
GRAND TARGHEE, Wyoming (AP)
-- Bill Royall chose the University of Denver so he
could take the winter quarters off from school and hit
the slopes.Grand Targhee has an annual snowfall of nearly
500 inches, with up to 650 inches in the whitest of
winters.................................His powder-searching
ways continued after college, landing him in Vail for a
few years before it eventually
became
too crowded, too trendy. A move to Aspen ended with
the same claustrophobic result.
And so it went, Royall's quest for a quiet skiing
sanctuary going on for years, taking him to places
like Steamboat
Springs, Taos, Sun Valley. And it always ended the
same: moving out when the crowds moved in......................................The
nomadic journey seemed to come to an end about 20
years ago when he arrived in Jackson, Wyoming,
a place
still oozing with that dusty-floor saloon charm of
the Old West.....................................But,
like all the other ski towns that had lured Royall
with its charms, Jackson changed, attracting fuzzy-jacket-wearing
out-of-towners to the slopes and trendy shops with
pricey paintings and sparkly T-shirts lining the streets.
Then Royall found Grand Targhee.------------------------------
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Officials trap and kill grizzly that mauled
man
Game wardens and Teton County sheriff's deputies
shot a 15-year-old male grizzly bear Saturday behind
the home of
the man it attacked four days earlier......................"In
denying the truth about shrinking habitat and mounting development
threats, the government is risking the future of the grizzly
bear — an icon of American wilderness," said
Louisa Willcox, director of the Wild Bears Project with
the Natural Resources Defense Council.
East Idaho neighbors disagree on response to Tuesday's
grizzly bear attack
A grizzly bear attack in a rural subdivision on the Wyoming
border is fueling a debate between those who have accepted
bears as neighbors and those who want them dead
Man
who survived maulinl g by grizzly recounts ordeal
Timothy Henderson rolled into a ball on the ground, bloodied
from two brutal attacks by a grizzly bear. The first time,
he got up, thinking the bear had left. The bear charged
again. This time, Henderson knew it was
still nearby. But Henderson's thoughts turned to his wife,
Jenny, and 1-year-old son, Henry |
With
Jackson Priced Out, a Nearby Teton Valley Takes Off -
by MATTHEW PREUSCH RUSTY
and Karen Vest and their three children journeyed to the Rocky
Mountain West from their home
in Tennessee 12 years ago for a grand loop though Yellowstone
and Grand Teton National Parks. Their vacation ended with
a week in a rented house at the head of the Teton Valley in
Idaho....................More
Expanding Grand
Targhee Resort
Grand Targhee Ski Resort has been around for 36 years now,
and with the Targhee expansion plan looming, this mountain
could be in store for some big changes. The resort plans
to add 875 units, if Targhee's new master plan
is accepted. Anyone with the funds will be able to
purchase townhomes right at the base of the mountain, providing
ski-in ski-out amenities.
Celestial
solitude in the Tetons • By Amanda Jones
I tried not to feel uncharitably smug as I watched the nightly
weather forecast: Grand Targhee would get a foot of new
snow overnight. Jackson Hole? Nothing — again. Wyoming's
Grand Targhee is a ski resort few people have heard of and
even fewer have skied. That's because it's
overshadowed by its larger, wealthier, more extreme-ski
cousin, Jackson Hole, an hour's drive to the east over 8,000-foot
Teton Pass.
Targhee
Land Trade Deal Completed By
Brian Hurlbut
Just in time for its
35-year anniversary, Grand Targhee Resort in Alta, Wyoming,
has finally completed its land
trade with the Forest Service, solidifying its long-term
plan of developing the resort’s base area facilities.
Our
valley’s tough issues reflect region-wide trends
And
so Driggs is like the beginning of a book I’ve read
a hundred times. It’s the story of mountain resort town
development. It’s the story of wilderness as a marketable
asset, and of a market that doesn’t have room to sustain
the wilderness, and in the end how resort towns lose their
spirit, their wilderness, their marketability, and things
begin to fall apart |
