• Wyoming Hotels and Travel Guide.
  
  Pronghorn antelope all but outnumber people in the wide open State of WYOMING, the 9th largest but least populated state in America, with just 465,000 residents. Above all, this is classic cowboy country, the inspiration behind Shane, The Virginian and countless other Western novels and movies where the days of the open range are evoked by rodeos, country and western dance halls and ranch wear stores. The state emblem, seen everywhere, is a hat waving cowboy astride a bucking bronco.
  
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  Northern Wyoming is the prime tourist goal, with well over three million per year heading for the simmering geothermal landscape of Yellowstone National Park, and the craggy mountain vistas of the adjacent, and equally outstanding, Grand Teton National Park . Wedged in between Yellowstone and South Dakota to the east are the helter skelter Bighorn Mountains, likeable Old West towns such as Buffalo , and the otherworldly outcrop of Devils Tower .
  
  The skimpy supply of buffalo in early Wyoming caused fierce intertribal wars over hunting grounds and kept the Native American population down to around 10,000. However, Sioux, Cheyenne and Blackfoot combined to inflict notable defeats on the US Army before it could clear the way for pioneer settlement in the 1870s. The cattle ranchers and sheep-farming homesteaders who followed engaged in violent range wars over grazing rights to the wiry grasslands.
  
  Unlikely as it may seem, this boisterous, heavily male dominated state was the first to grant women the vote in 1869 a full half century before the rest of the country, on the grounds that the enfranchisement of women would attract settlers and increase the population, thereby hastening statehood. A year later Wyoming appointed the country's first women jurors, and the Equality State elected the first female American governor in 1924.
  
  The absence of rivers to irrigate farmland has effectively put a lid on agricultural and population growth. These days, any weather beaten, denim clad stranger is more likely to be an oil roustabout than a genuine cowboy, fuel and mineral extraction having replaced livestock as the mainstay of the economy in the early part of the 20th century.
   
• Jackson Hole Wyoming Tourism, Jackson Hole Hotels
  The overgrown community of JACKSON Wyoming is tucked in at the end of Jackson Hole, nine miles from Teton park's southern gate. Hunched around a tree shaded square, marked by an arch of tangled elk antlers at each corner, the Old Western style boardwalks of downtown front designer boutiques, craft shops and over thirty galleries. Every summer evening, except Sundays, an amateurish shoot-out is staged in the town square 6.30pm. In winter, time is better spent visiting the National Elk Refuge on the north edge of town, where you can take a horse-drawn sleigh ride among a 10,000 strong herd of elk late Dec to late March daily 10am-4pm; $12 for adults and $8 for kids: rides leave from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and a combined museum and sleigh ride ticket is good value at $15 adults, $11 kids.
  
  Jackson Wyoming is home base for two of the best ski areas in Wyoming: Snow King tel 733-5200 or 1-800 522-5464, is Jackson Wyoming's family friendly hill, also lit for night skiing, while Jackson Hole Mountain Resort tel 733-2292 or 1-888 333-7766, is a massive mountain with a huge vertical drop and terrain best suited to upper intermediate to extreme downhillers. Summer tourists can enjoy chairlift rides up 7751ft Snow King Mountain from Snow King Avenue, six blocks from the town square daily 9am-6pm $7.00, and come down by hiking, cycling or taking the thrilling 2500ft Alpine Slide $6.00 a turn, a summer toboggan run. Out at Teton Village, home of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort tel 307 733-2292, aerial trams swoosh their way 10,536ft to the top of Rendezvous Mountain where there is a spectacular panorama of the valley and mountain ranges daily: June-Aug 9am-7pm May and Sept 9am-5pm $16.
   
• Jackson Wyoming - Arrival, Information, Tours and Activities  Jackson Wyoming Airport is actually within the national park, eight miles north and is linked to town by the All Star Transportation van service tel 307 733-2888 $8 one way, while the regular taxi fare is around $20. Jackson Hole Express tel 307/733-1719 or 1-800 652-9510 operates two direct shuttle services daily between the international airport in Salt Lake City and Jackson around 5hr. $47 one way pick up and drop off in Jackson is at the MiniMart beside Burger King on West Broadway.
  
  Jackson Wyoming excellent Tourism Information Center, 532 N Cache St daily: summer 8am-7.30pm the rest of year 9am-5pm; tel 307 733-3316, has detailed statewide information. Nearby, the Bridger - Teton National Forest Headquarters , 340 N Cache St Mon-Fri 8am-4.30pm tel 307 739-5500, has details of hiking and backcountry camping.
  
  Transport around Jackson Hole Wyoming is provided by START buses tel 307 733-4521, which also run to Teton Village, twelve miles northwest. The visitor center has racks of leaflets detailing bus tours of Jackson and the parks: Gray Line, 330 N Glenwood St tel 307 733-4325 or 1-800 443-6133, will pick you up at your hotel and take you through either Teton or Yellowstone park on a brisk one-day drive for $60. Guided bike tours in the area are run by Teton Mountain Bike Tours tel 307/733-0712 or 1-800 733-0788, and cost $55 for a half day tour including equipment.
  
  Hundreds of companies in Jackson Hole offer float trips and whitewater rafting on the Snake River half day around $35, full day $60. Try Dave Hansen Whitewater, 455 N Cache St tel 733-6295 or 1-800 732-6295 or Jackson Hole Whitewater, 650 W Broadway tel 733-1007 or 1-800 700-7238 Leisure Sports, 1075 Hwy-89 S tel 307 733-3040 offers reasonable rental rates for rafts, kayaks, tubes and bicycles.
  
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