3 Best Sights in Jackson Hole and Northwest Wyoming, Wyoming

Formerly the Jackson Hole Historical Society & Museum, this new 13,200-square-foot museum opened in 2024. It features three stories' worth of exhibits in the main building and two historic cabins located out back. Learn about homesteaders, dude ranches, and hunters, as well as Jackson's all-female town government of yore—a woman sheriff of that era claimed to have killed three men before hanging up her spurs. Native American, ranching, and cowboy artifacts are on display. Every summer the society sponsors lectures and historic downtown walking tours (for a fee). Even if you don't have time to visit the museum, it's worth popping into the small gift shop.

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.

Fur trappers were the first non–Native Americans to live in these parts year-round, arriving in the early 19th century when the area was the center of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. The museum celebrates that trapper history with guns, traps, clothing, and beaver pelts from that time period. In the early summer the museum features living-history demonstrations, children's events, and lectures. On the second full weekend in July it hosts a reenactment of the Green River Rendezvous, when mountain men, Native Americans, and others got together to barter and socialize.