Going to Jackson hole next week anyone been recently?

Weather is great and the place is bustling. Masks in all businesses/restaurants including hotels. Yellowstone and GTNP have good crowds. Snake River Brewery opened back up and I highly recommend going there for beer and food. Head to Teton Village and have lunch on the mountain. Great view. It is tough to get in a lot of the restaurants without reservations. Lots of places downtown to slip in and have a quick lunch.

We had thought about going but we couldn't find anything under $300 a night. We decided we would try the trip next year. If you find any good room deals let me know.

I'm a Jackson Hole local and we are seeing a huge surge in COVID cases which has caused quite a few local restaurants and businesses to close back down due to staff exposure and the required county 14 day quarantine for those exposed.

We are at near normal summer numbers, but with only a fraction of the restaurants able to service people and none of them able to do so at normal capacity. I passed a few restaurants on Friday night with 30+ people waiting outside. I wouldn't be surprised to continue see restaurants having to close down. I would be open to the idea of getting to-go dinner, or eating earlier around 5 to beat the crowds.

Spend as much time out in the parks as you can, and you'll have a great time. I passed a VERY long line to get back across the Jenny Lake Boat last weekend. They are running limited capacity so it's making the wait times longer.

Trio, the Local, and Hand Fired are Take-out only right now. To pick three restaurants. They had staff test positive, and they told those employees to stay home.

Without j1 students, staffing is really tight, so you’ll see more of that.

The town also passed a mask ordinance.

The people who are prone to worrying, are worrying. For me - looking around - I think they’re being irrational, but I understand why everytime I see a newspaper or CNN blaring on the television.

The media is selling fear right now.

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Anyone know if Yellowstone traffic is unbearable currently?

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About three weeks ago it was perfectly fine. This was before they started opening up some of the other hotels though so could have picked up in recent weeks.

Will be in Jackson Hole week between Christmas an New Years. Staying at the WORT..Hope things have settled down by then.

Stopped in there and had a milkshake & beer. Pretty solid.

Hopefully the panic will subside when the election is finally over. And we can return to some kind of normal.

The labor situation will be difficult for us. We won’t have j1 visa employees, and everyone from the mountain to the restaurants will have do to more, with fewer people.

Wild Life Art Museum

Not sure if it's open but the parking lot of this place just outside town is worth the ride up the hill.

Cool story - we passed this passed for 3 days on the way to the GTNP and on our last evening back to Jackson we decided to stop to check it out. We asked this nice lady in the parking lot if they were open and she said no they were closed for a "locals only private event" that night.

We said too bad as this was our last night in Jackson before heading to Yellowstone. She said...come on in and we got treated to the museum for free with wine, beer, hors d’oeuvres and and they had a band playing as well. We had a blast!!

Beautiful place.