Support the volunteers who maintain these trails: Star Valley Ranch Trail Crew!
The Star Valley Ranch Trail Crew is an all Volunteer organization dedicated to improving recreational trails on the Bridger-Teton National Forest and within our community. Our organization started work in 2015 and continues to grow and expand as we start our 10th year of operations. We currently have 87 volunteers who donate 1500 hours annually to build and maintain 12.5 miles of trail and 7 trailheads. Our crews work tirelessly to remove downed trees, add water bars for erosion control, brush, and limb to widen trail access, and improve trail/trailhead signage. In addition, we partner with AllTrails to help verify and improve the information provided on the App for the trails we maintain. Enjoy your hike!
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Summer 2026—Life as a FBT partnership intern: boothing, bird banding, log staining, fencing, trail work, beautiful scenery, wild places, and more. Thanks @alltrails and @wyo_community for making it possible! Lucky to be working with with BTNF Forest Service and the FBT Forest Corps.
As of July 5, firefighters continued to make steady progress on the lightning-caused Kinky Creek Fire, which is located west of Darwin Ranch, near Upper Gros Ventre Falls in the Gros Ventre Wilderness on the Jackson Ranger District. They increased containment to 86%. The fire is 880 acres in size.
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Forest trail and area closures remain in effect to protect public and firefighter safety. The public is asked to avoid Kinky Creek Road; Kinky Creek and Clear Creek Trails; and the Brewster, Lunch, and Chateau Lake areas while suppression activities continue.
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#kinkycreekfire #bridgertetonnationalforest #tetoninteragecyfire #btnfjacksondistrict
Fireworks = fun. Wildfires = absolutely not. About 85% of wildfires are human-caused, and it often starts with something small (and very avoidable).
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This Fourth of July, keep the sparkle where it belongs—at permitted shows, not in dry grass or forests. Aerial fireworks are illegal in Teton and Sublette Counties, the Town of Alpine, and in GTNP and on the BTNF.
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Leave fireworks to the professionals—there are permitted firework shows in communities around the BTNF, all of which start around dusk July 4. (Teton Village actually has two fireworks shows, July 3 and July 4. )
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Pinedale—Dudley Key Ballfields on the west end of Pinedale.
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Alpine—American Legion Ballfield (249 Buffalo Drive)
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Jackson—Base of Snow King Mountain (which is on the BTNF)
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Teton Village—Base area of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (which is also on the BTNF)
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Photo @jhnewsandguide
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#snowkingmountain #jacksonhole visit_pinedale @townofalpinewy @snowkingmountain @jacksonhole
“I am a deep believer in the power of public lands,” says Bob Weiss, who moved to Jackson Hole full-time in 2018 after he and his wife retired and has been a volunteer supporting the Bridger-Teton National Forest via Friends of the Bridger-Teton since 2021.
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Bob’s first volunteering in the valley was in Grand Teton National Park. At that time, he lived in Wilson, close to the base of Teton Pass, which is part of the BTNF. “I thought that if I could volunteer for the National Park Service, I could for the BTNF. It was so close to my house, and I feel it is underappreciated, national forests don’t have the glamour of national parks, and we use our national forest pretty intensely here. I wanted to help educate people to treat it respectfully.”
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He’s been a dedicated trail Ambassador ever since.
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Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
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This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation keepwildlifewild jacksonhole cachecreek
Summer 2026—Life as a FBT partnership intern: boothing, bird banding, log staining, fencing, trail work, beautiful scenery, wild places, and more. Thanks @alltrails and @wyo_community for making it possible! Lucky to be working with with BTNF Forest Service and the FBT Forest Corps.
As of July 5, firefighters continued to make steady progress on the lightning-caused Kinky Creek Fire, which is located west of Darwin Ranch, near Upper Gros Ventre Falls in the Gros Ventre Wilderness on the Jackson Ranger District. They increased containment to 86%. The fire is 880 acres in size.
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Forest trail and area closures remain in effect to protect public and firefighter safety. The public is asked to avoid Kinky Creek Road; Kinky Creek and Clear Creek Trails; and the Brewster, Lunch, and Chateau Lake areas while suppression activities continue.
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#kinkycreekfire #bridgertetonnationalforest #tetoninteragecyfire #btnfjacksondistrict
Fireworks = fun. Wildfires = absolutely not. About 85% of wildfires are human-caused, and it often starts with something small (and very avoidable).
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This Fourth of July, keep the sparkle where it belongs—at permitted shows, not in dry grass or forests. Aerial fireworks are illegal in Teton and Sublette Counties, the Town of Alpine, and in GTNP and on the BTNF.
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Leave fireworks to the professionals—there are permitted firework shows in communities around the BTNF, all of which start around dusk July 4. (Teton Village actually has two fireworks shows, July 3 and July 4. )
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Pinedale—Dudley Key Ballfields on the west end of Pinedale.
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Alpine—American Legion Ballfield (249 Buffalo Drive)
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Jackson—Base of Snow King Mountain (which is on the BTNF)
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Teton Village—Base area of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (which is also on the BTNF)
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Photo @jhnewsandguide
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#snowkingmountain #jacksonhole visit_pinedale @townofalpinewy @snowkingmountain @jacksonhole
“I am a deep believer in the power of public lands,” says Bob Weiss, who moved to Jackson Hole full-time in 2018 after he and his wife retired and has been a volunteer supporting the Bridger-Teton National Forest via Friends of the Bridger-Teton since 2021.
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Bob’s first volunteering in the valley was in Grand Teton National Park. At that time, he lived in Wilson, close to the base of Teton Pass, which is part of the BTNF. “I thought that if I could volunteer for the National Park Service, I could for the BTNF. It was so close to my house, and I feel it is underappreciated, national forests don’t have the glamour of national parks, and we use our national forest pretty intensely here. I wanted to help educate people to treat it respectfully.”
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He’s been a dedicated trail Ambassador ever since.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Our Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation program includes full- and part-time summer and winter positions as volunteers for the USDA Forest Service on the BTNF. Summer Ambassador jobs range from educating visitors and locals about the importance of recreating responsibly to manning desks at area visitor centers, doing outreach on behalf of the forest, cleaning toilets, monitoring campgrounds, patrolling popular trails and trailheads, and helping recycle bear spray, among other duties.
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This summer there are 40 volunteer Ambassadors for Responsible Recreation across all six districts of the BTNF. They are supported by local lodging tax dollars, Friends of the Bridger-Teton, and private donations.
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#bridgertetonnationalforest #bridgertetonfriends #nationalforests #nationalforest #publiclands publicland getoutside responsiblerecreation keepwildlifewild jacksonhole cachecreek