Look Closer

For a truly memorable souvenir.

// By Jim Mahaffie

// photograPHY By PEARL SPURLOCK

We all love the classic Jackson Hole or national park t-shirt. And a baseball cap with a bison on the front is always cool, as is a wolf or grizzly sticker for your car’s bumper. But Jackson Hole shops and businesses also offer less-obvious souvenirs and gifts. For example, the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar and the Mangy Moose are iconic local establishments, and both offer clothes, caps, and other branded wear in on-site gift shops. 

Or you could go even more insider, wearing a cap from King Ropes of Sheridan, Wyoming, or a hoodie from Bud’s Eastside Liquor. The former is authentic cowboy, and the latter is a beloved and funky liquor store that keeps East Jacksonites supplied with beer and cocktail fixings. 

Here are some other ideas for out-of-the-box souvenirs and gifts. 

At the Moose entrance to Grand Teton National Park, just east of the Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center, Artshop is nestled among the various businesses and services at Dornans. Here you can find prints, photos, ceramic art, sculpture, textiles, cards, and more from over 50 Jackson area creatives. Artwork at the store is described as “more approachable” than you’d find at the many galleries around Jackson’s Town Square. “There’s a big reason we called it a ‘shop’ and not a ‘gallery,’” says owner Alex Pope. “We want to be as inviting as possible for people on trips and headed to and from the parks and airport.” 12170 Dornan Rd., Moose

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort owns Hoback Sports and the Resort Store in Jackson, as well as JH Sports and Teton Village Sports at the base of the ski resort. They carry the usual Jackson Hole-branded merch, but then, in a nod to the treats available fresh at the top of the JHMR tram, there’s also a “waffles” sweatshirt, shirts sporting photos of the resort’s avalanche dogs, and long underwear printed with JHMR’s ski trail map. 520 W. Broadway Ave., Jackson (Hoback Sports); 50 Center St., Jackson (Resort Store); 7720 Granite Loop Rd., Teton Village (JH Sports); 3285 Village Dr., Teton Village (Teton Village Sports)

Jackson Hole’s homegrown outdoor performance and fashion brand Stio has two “mountain studios” (aka stores) in the valley, one in downtown Jackson and a second in Teton Village. Here you can buy performance fleece named for Wyoming’s tallest peak (Gannett Peak), athleisure pieces named after the second highest peak in the nearby Wind River Range (Fremont), and joggers whose name honors one of Jackson Hole’s oldest dude ranches, Turpin Meadow Ranch. We’ve seen Stio’s instantly recognizable logo, a whitebark pinecone, as far away as Istanbul and Lagos, Nigeria. 10 E. Broadway Ave., Jackson; and 3335 Village Dr. #113, Teton Village

Stop into History Jackson Hole to learn about the valley’s history and see a selection of historical images and artifacts, then go into its gift shop for cards made by local artist Mary Lohuis, mug and pinch pots from Art in the Alpine, antler bottle openers made by J2 Antler Designs, and reprints of some of the most popular images from among the 60,000-plus images in the museum’s permanent collection. Many of these images are on display; a museum archivist can find others for you that you can order. “We try to stock things that might keep people off their phones for a few minutes,” says communications director Kirsten Corbett. 175 E. Broadway Ave., Jackson

The Wyoming Whiskey distillery is in Kirby, Wyoming, but its Barrel House flagship storefront is in downtown Jackson. How about a pair of Wyoming Whiskey-branded deerskin gloves? Or highball glasses? Or a bottle of one of the distillery’s whiskeys? The shop is the best place to find limited editions, small-batch releases, and only-available-in-Wyoming bottles like Independence Rock and Queen of the Tetons, which honors Grizzly 399, a mother to 18 cubs over her 28-year life in and around Jackson Hole. If you want a libation distilled in Jackson, check out Still Works, the valley’s only craft distillery. Its tasting room has branded merch like rocks glasses, silipints, hammered copper mugs, shot glasses, and, of course, bottles of their craft spirits like gin and vodka. Beer lovers should check out Snake River Brewery and Roadhouse Brewing, both of which have shops inside their brewpubs. 45 W. Broadway Ave., Jackson (Barrel House); and 3940 S. Eagle View Dr, Jackson (Still Works)

At the Moose entrance to Grand Teton National Park, just east of the Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center, Artshop is nestled among the various businesses and services at Dornans. Here you can find prints, photos, ceramic art, sculpture, textiles, cards, and more from over 50 Jackson area creatives. Artwork at the store is described as “more approachable” than you’d find at the many galleries around Jackson’s Town Square. “There’s a big reason we called it a ‘shop’ and not a ‘gallery,’” says owner Alex Pope. “We want to be as inviting as possible for people on trips and headed to and from the parks and airport.” 12170 Dornan Rd., Moose

Just north of downtown Jackson, the National Elk Refuge & Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center’s front desk staff are available to answer questions, and a gift shop offers outdoorsy, wildlife, and Wyoming-related books, including Hiking Wyoming’s Wind River Range, Osborne Russell’s Journal of the Trapper, and kids’ books like Who Pooped In the Park? Yellowstone National Park: Scat and Tracks for Kids. You’ll also find posters of scenes from Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park, stickers featuring local wildlife, stuffed animals, and, of course, wearable souvenirs like distressed Elk Refuge-branded hoodies and t-shirts. 532 N. Cache St, Jackson

Teton Gravity Research has been making genre-redefining ski movies from its world headquarters in Jackson Hole since 1996. Pop into the company’s movie studio (in Wilson) or its Town Square storefront to find branded goggles and optics, buffs, and stickers. TGR also did a collab with the Grateful Dead to produce stickers, pins, patches, zip-up jackets, goggles, hats, and t-shirts and hoodies. And, of course, you can also pick up one of TGR’s more than 30 ski films, including 2018’s Far Out, which won Movie of the Year and Best Post Production at the annual Powder Awards; 2023’s Flying High, which garnered Maggie Voisin “Standout Female Skier of the Year;” and the 2021 feature Stoke the Fire, filled with performances from Jackson Hole athletes and shot at locations around the valley. 1260 West St., Wilson (studio); and 50 W. Broadway Ave., Jackson

The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Museum Shop aims to stock books, jewelry, functional art, and more that can’t be found elsewhere in town. For example: the kid-friendly coffee table book Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks, which includes over 400 illustrations; a puzzle of Wild About Art, the popular mural stretched across a wall in one of the museum’s classrooms and painted by local artist Greta Gretzinger; bison bolo ties; and wood-block paintings by Jackson-based artist Sue Tyler, who integrates natural elements into her wildlife-inspired work. 2820 Rungius Rd., Jackson

Made, with a location in Jackson and an “M” store at The Aspens, features mostly locally made and unique merchandise of all kinds. The shops offer handmade selections from more than 360 American artists—from jewelry to pottery, leather goods, glasses, kitchenware, pillows, and even local beef jerky. There’s an amazing array of Western-themed and Jackson-branded mementoes of all kinds. Here’s an idea: Made sells leather Give’r gloves, which were born in East Jackson and Town and Country magazine named “The Souvenir of Jackson Hole.” 125 N. Cache St. #702, Jackson (Gaslight Alley)

And then there are the only-in-Jackson-Hole events that happen every winter, like the Wyoming Stage Stop Dogsled Race (January 30–February 7, 2026) and the Jackson Hole Snow Devils’ World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb (March 19–22, 2026). These have branded merch, as does the Jackson Hole Moose hockey team, which plays at Snow King Sports & Events Center all winter long. JH