2 Best Sights in Jackson Hole and Northwest Wyoming, Wyoming

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.

Wildlife abounds on this 25,000-acre refuge. From late November to March, more than 5,000 elk, many with enormous antler racks, winter here. Elk can be observed from various pull-outs along U.S. 191 or by slowly driving your car on the refuge's winding, unpaved roads. Other animals that make their home here include buffalo, bighorn sheep, and coyotes, as well as trumpeter swans and other waterfowl. In summer, the refuge is light on big game, but you can tour a historic homestead from June to September. From mid-December to early April, sleigh rides operated by Double H Bar ( nersleighrides.com) depart twice-daily from the Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center.