4 Best Sights in Dubois, Jackson Hole and Northwest Wyoming

The world's largest private collection of military vehicles is housed in this 140,000-square-foot museum, which opened in 2020 with more than 400 vehicles from 1897 to the present, including every vehicle type used in WWII (including tanks). The vast majority of the vehicles are still functioning and would just need oil and fuel to work again. Along with the vehicles, the museum also houses more than 200 historically significant firearms, including the musket that fired the "shot heard around the world" during the battle at Bunker Hill.

About 20 miles west of Dubois, easy-to-moderate hiking trails lead around Brooks Lake, across alpine meadows, and through pine forest to high mountain points with expansive views of Brooks Lake Mountain and the Pinnacles. You can picnic or (in summer) hard-side camp here, and boat, fish, or swim on the lake.

Displays here focus on Wind River tie hacks (workers who cut ties for railroads), local geology, and the archaeology of the Mountain Shoshone. Outbuildings include the town's first schoolhouse, a saddle shop, a homestead house, and a bunkhouse. For $85 per person, the museum will take you on a private guided tour to nearby petroglyphs (call ahead to reserve). 

The local variety is known as the Rocky Mountain bighorn, but you can learn about all kinds of bighorn sheep at this nonprofit conservation center and wildlife museum about an hour east of Grand Teton National Park. Expect dioramas with full-scale taxidermy mounts that re-create bighorn habitat, as well as interactive exhibits about wildlife management and special adaptations of wild sheep. Call ahead to book private winter wildlife-viewing tours ($100 per person, two-person minimum) to Whiskey Mountain.