Jackson Hole, Wyoming · 8,640 ft
Fourteen rooms and six cabins on a ridge over Jackson Hole. On inversion mornings the valley fills with cloud, and you take breakfast above it.
See winter datesiThe lodge
We built Alder & Peak for the hour after the lifts close, when the valley turns blue, the cloud settles in below you and someone has already lit the fire.
The Halloran family ran sheep on this ridge in 1937 and built a log camp to winter in. Kit and Anders Halloran rebuilt it in 2019 with the same lodgepole logs, a great room of glass that faces the Tetons, and a wine cellar cut straight into the rock.
There is no road in winter. A heated snowcat brings you the last 3.2 miles from the Alder Creek trailhead, and after that the loudest thing on the mountain is the stove.
Kit & Anders HalloranYour hosts, third generation on the ridge
Feet above sea level. On an inversion morning that puts you about 2,400 feet above the cloud, and in full sun while Jackson sits in the grey.
iiRooms and cabins
Every room faces the range. What changes is the hour you will love it most, so we named them for it.
Dawn over the cloud sea
From$640
Eight rooms on the upper floor with a king or two queens, sheepskin on the window bench and a pot of coffee outside your door at six.
The whole range, all day
From$1,850
The corner of the top floor, glass on two sides, a copper soaking tub turned to face the Grand and a telescope that belonged to Anders's grandfather.
The Grand at last light
From$980
Six log cabins spaced along the ridge, each with a wood stove, a cedar hot tub on the porch and a lantern path back to the lodge for supper.
Stars, with the hearth below
From$590
Five rooms off the great hall, close enough to hear the fire settle. Deep window seats, wool blankets from Pendleton and the darkest sky in the county.
Rates are per night for two and include breakfast, supper, the snowcat and the sauna. Two nights minimum, three over Christmas and Presidents' Day weekend.
Winter
Dec 18 – Apr 6
Powder that nobody else has touched, and a sauna for afterwards.
Summer
Jun 20 – Sep 28
Meadows of lupine, a creek full of cutthroat and nights you can read by starlight.
We close in May, October and Novemberso the mountain, and the people who look after it, can rest.
ivThe dining room
Supper is at 7:30 for everyone in the house: five courses from what came up the mountain that week, and a cellar of six hundred bottles cut into the ridge.
“Everything up here arrives by snowcat or by hand. You cook differently when the nearest store is two hours away.”
Maren Toft, chef since 2019
Rye crisp, crème fraîche, pickled shallot, dill from the greenhouse
Toasted hazelnut, a little thyme oil
Roasted beets, huckleberry jus, potatoes cooked in the embers
Aged eighteen months two valleys south, with comb honey
Crème anglaise, and coffee by the fire
Breakfast7 to 10 at the window tables. Sourdough, eggs from Teton Valley, and the cloud sea if you are lucky.
The hearth barOpens at 4 with a Wyoming rye old fashioned. Supper is included for guests; friends visiting for the night pay $145.
vTrail guide
Every walk begins at the lodge door and comes back for supper. Luis Ortega, our head guide, walks each one in June before we open it.
In winter the first three are packed for snowshoes, and on Fridays we set lanterns along the Larkspur loop.
viCheck dates
Fly into Jackson Hole (JAC). We meet you at arrivals and drive forty minutes to the Alder Creek trailhead. From December to April a heated snowcat carries you the last 3.2 miles; in summer it is a gravel road, or a two-mile walk with your bags sent ahead.