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Jackson Hole ski patrol team with a snowmobile near the Pioneer Gondola station and a ski lodge on a sunny winter day.

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

Teton Village, Wyoming
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  • Teton Village, Wyoming
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  • David Swift
  • Tuck Fauntleroy
  • Lark Smotherman

The Jackson Hole Mountain Resort completed a new aerial tram, which runs from the base in Teton Village to the summit of Rendezvous Mountain. CLB was responsible for the lower tram terminal, including a loading platform, mechanical facility, and clock tower.

A red Jackson Hole gondola cabin, emblazoned with its iconic bucking horse logo, is suspended from cables as it approaches a modern, multi-story gondola station. The station features extensive glass windows, dark structural beams, and a tan base with the JACKSON HOLE name. In the snowy foreground, skiers and snowboarders gather near a rustic lodge with a red awning, and a snowmobile with ski patrol equipment is visible. Distant snow-capped mountains rise under a bright blue sky.

In addition to its functional program, the tram enclosure was designed to blend with the surrounding architectural landscape, notably, the Bridger Center and the new Bridger Restaurant, both CLB projects. In keeping with these buildings and the overall character of the ski village, the design team employed a familiar set of materials and tones for the tram dock and tower, incorporating a dark-bronze standing-seam metal roof (as with the Bridger Restaurant), stained exposed concrete (to match the Bridger Center), and vernacular Farmer’s Rock stone for the enclosure piers, as well as steel, glass, and composite materials utilized in neighboring structures.

Since the clock tower functions as an icon for the ski resort, the design team created a new structure that retains aesthetic elements of the old but is appropriately updated. An elevator for handicapped access completes the clock tower program expansion.

The challenges of building a restaurant for the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort at the elevation of 9,100-feet include snow loads of 225 pounds per square-foot, severe earthquake design (Seismic Zone 4), unstable soils, and a site located near an avalanche path. The program for this facility includes a small deli with outdoor seating, a large cafeteria with a capacity of 250 seats, and a sit-down, elegant on-mountain restaurant that is open for dinner in the summer and winter. In addition there is space for the ski patrol, restrooms, and an apartment to accommodate the lift operators who run the Bridger Gondola.

Interior of a modern public building featuring exposed dark steel beams, columns, and a high glass wall overlooking trees and an adjacent building. The space includes a concrete floor with metal railings and a stone accent wall.
Sunny winter day at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort village. Snow-covered ski slopes rise behind rustic wooden buildings, including the Jackson Hole lodge with a clock tower. Rime-frosted trees and deep snow blanket the foreground, framed by log entrance posts.

This three-story building of approximately 20,000-square-feet is an important piece of the Mountain Resort’s Master Plan to provide more amenities on the mountain. The architectural character is a continuation of the language established at the Bridger Center, using a system of stone piers and timber beams as a simple, elegant response to structural requirements.

The Sweetwater gondola station at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, showing red gondola cabins at the loading platform with people, and one cabin traveling on the right over a snowy landscape under a clear blue sky. A rustic building is visible in the background.
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Eric Logan FAIA
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Steve Jakub AIA, LEED AP
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Maria James LEED AP
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