TRAVEL: The Glorious Other Side of The Tetons, from Idaho
After the road that connected uber-pricey Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the commuter towns of the Idaho Teton Valley towns collapsed in June, the great divide between super wealthy in Wyoming and working class folks of Idaho has been in the news. The residents of Victor, Driggs and Tetonia, just over the Wyoming/Idaho border, are the people who drive into Jackson every day, a 90-minute commute at best, staffing the hotels, cafes and hospitals, and coming to work for construction to build multi-million dollar mansions for the billionaires who use Jackson as a second, third or fourth home. When we visited recently, the road had just fallen, and the mood was grim. The only workaround was a two-hour backroad that wouldn’t be sustainable for the workers, and no tourist from Jackson was going to brave the drive to find cheaper lodging in the Teton Valley. But miracle or miracles, a temporary road fix was patched together in three weeks, and all is well again. The Teton Valley of Idaho includes Victor, Driggs and Tetonia, small towns that are more affordable than Jackson. By Jefferson Graham for the PhotowalksTV project Which brings us back to the Teton Valley. When visiting Jackson, we’ve…
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