The 25,000-acre National Elk Refuge

If ever there were a spot in the US that could make you feel what it might have been like to be a 19th-century trapper, frontiersman, gunslinger, rancher, or Gros Ventre Indian, it’s this remote Wyoming valley or “hole”, crowned by arguably America’s most photographed mountains, the Tetons. And although it is the challenging and scenic skiing at Teton Village that makes Jackson Hole such a big draw, there are many other winter adventures at which to marvel.