The cabin sits in the wild country between Jackson Hole and Pinedale, with the Wind Rivers rising past 13,000 feet off the back deck. Here is what is inside an hour, and what is inside two.
Exact address and keypad code are sent at booking. Free parking on the property, and the nearest neighbor is a long way off.
Jackson is over the pass; check the road report in winter. Yellowstone’s south entrance closes to cars from early November until spring.
The end of the Upper Green road. Squaretop Mountain stands over the lower lake, and the Highline and Lakeside trails start at the campground.
More than twenty miles of public water below the lakes, known for healthy runs of cutthroat and brown trout and banks with nobody on them.
Boat launch, campground, and the trail up the canyon into the Bridger Wilderness. The closest big water to the cabin.
Above Pinedale, one of the deepest natural lakes in Wyoming. Sailing, paddling, and a lodge on the shore.
From Elkhart Park above Pinedale. Photographers Point is the day hike; Titcomb Basin is the overnight.
A warm creek on the Upper Green road and the only place on earth the Kendall Warm Springs dace lives. Look, don’t soak.
Up the Hoback south of Jackson. A spring-fed pool in the trees, reached by car in summer and by sled in winter.
The road up Boulder Creek toward the southern Wind Rivers. Quiet, rough, and worth it.
Up the Upper Green road toward the lakes. Meals, rooms, and the last stop before the trailhead.
The bar and grill in Cora, which is most of Cora.
Dinner on the water above Pinedale, with the boats coming in.
Pinedale’s brewery. Beer and a full menu on the main street.
Breakfast and lunch in town.
The old bar on Pine Street.
The local hill, past Fremont Lake. Short lines and a real mountain.
Groomed loops on the edge of town, and the whole valley beyond them for the touring crowd.
Where the sleds go in. Groomed trails and the whole Upper Green from one parking lot.
Both resorts are a morning’s drive over the pass, and back for dinner.
The fur trade, the rendezvous years, and the country you are standing in.
A pool, a hot tub and a gym for the afternoon the weather wins.
On the butte north of Jackson, across from the elk refuge.
For the small people and the curious ones.
Bring bug spray in July, layers in every month, and a full tank. Cell service comes and goes past Cora.
Most of it is a morning’s drive. All of it comes back to a deck facing the range.