Teton Valley Idaho, Victor, Driggs, Grand Targhee

Teton Valley Idaho photo Montage of Teton Valley Idaho

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.

Hay farm, Alta Wyoming. The argiculture of Teton Valley compliments the majesty of the Grand Tetons.

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.

Hurricane Pass is the eastern boundary of Teton Valley. This photo peaks into Cascade Canyon of Grand Teton National Park.

The Teton River mieanders its way down the bottom of Teton Valley past the towns of Victor, Driggs and Tetonia

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.

Teton Valley News

Jackson’s Last Stand - By Peter Gianopulos
You’ve conquered Banff. You’ve skied the slopes in Stowe. Maybe you’ve even tackled the Alps. But have you experienced the pleasures of booking a slumber party at Paul Allen’s lodge in the Grand Tetons while sampling the powder near Jackson Hole?.................................................... Who would have guessed it? Paul Allen — cofounder of Microsoft, secret investor of the SpaceShipOne turbojet, brain trust of the Allen Institute for Brain Science — has a soft spot for Indian canoes and elk-horn chandeliers.

It's true: The man who made a fortune by convincing us to stay inside — happily chained to our Microsoft-licensed computer desks — happens to own one of the best arguments in America for going outside.

You'll have to drive 60 minutes from Jackson Hole, Wyo. — or an hour and a half from the western entrance of Yellowstone — to get there, but when you pull up to Allen's secluded Teton Ridge Ranch, located on the majestic Idaho side of the Grand Tetons, you can't help but feel a sudden urge to throw your BlackBerry in the snow and go completely Jeremiah Johnson for the weekend. ---------------------------------> More

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.------------------------------ > More

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.

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.

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