97% of Teton County lands are federally owned.

William Henry Jackson took the first photographs of the Teton Mountains and Yellowstone. His photographs were used as evidence to help convince the federal government, in 1872, to protect the Yellowstone area as the world’s first national park.

Jackson elected an all-woman Town Council in 1920—the first council in the country that also included a female town marshal.

The first ski “rope” tow on Snow King, used in 1940, was actually a cable purchased from a Casper oil drilling company.

The Chapel of Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park was built for the convenience of dude ranch church-goers, for whom it was too far away to attend church in town.

In 1924 at age sixteen, renowned mountain climber Paul Petzoldt climbed the Grand Teton for the first time in cowboy boots.

The first elk antler arch in the Town Square was built in 1953, and it took the Rotary Club, the Boy Scouts and community members thirteen years to complete all four arches.

The Jackson Hole Shoot Out on the Town Square began in 1956, and it is the longest running shoot-out show in the nation.