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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Jackson’s Favorite Family-Owned Motel
The story of Flat Creek Inn is anything but flat. It’s a story full of ups, downs, and more ups. It’s the story of a family, a gas station, a few rough patches, and eventual success. And, with the tenth anniversary of the big comeback of this family-owned motel coming up, it’s a story we’re about to tell you. The Beginning In the late 1960s, Jerry Bagley, a man with legends as large as Davy Crockett, strolled into Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his young wife and daughters and bought...
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The Great Indoors: Staying Inside in Jackson Hole
You’re making vacation plans with friends when suddenly someone mentions it: the outdoors. Your idea of the outdoors is a walk through the backyard to get to the mailbox. Everyone is gung-ho about Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and someone even makes reservations at Flat Creek Inn. You could be the worst and back out, but FOMO gets the best of you. If this sounds like you, then read on because I’ve rounded up some of the best indoor activities Jackson has to offer. Shopping While shopping tec...
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A Stay at the Old Faithful Inn
While we’re partial to Flat Creek Inn and Grand Teton National Park, there’s another famous national park in the area you may have heard of named Yellowstone National Park. Much can (and probably will) be said on all there is to do and see in Yellowstone, but today we’re going to take a field trip to my personal favorite park landmark: the Old Faithful Inn. Built between 1903 and 1904 and costing $140,000 (about $4.7 million in today’s dollars), the Old Faithful Inn is still c...
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Hiking Sheep Mountain, Part 2: Tragedy on the Peak
After a beautiful morning hiking Sheep Mountain (aka Sleeping Indian), our band of women started the descent chattering excitedly, full of adrenaline and happy to no longer be going uphill. In a change of atmosphere, we stopped by the scene of a mid-1990s plane crash. And while most of our Flat Creek blog posts have happy endings, this one does not. In August 1996, after spending a vacation in Jackson, Wyoming with President Clinton, a C-130 carrying a Secret Service agent and an Air Forc...
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Hiking Sheep Mountain: Hard Ascent, Beautiful View
As alarms started buzzing in the early hours of the morning, the five women in our hotel room blearily started rising and making final preparations for our day’s hike. As we drove through sleepy Star Valley towards Jackson, many of us probably wondered what we were getting ourselves into and if it was too late to turn back. Sheep Mountain, locally known as Sleeping Indian (because of its resemblance to a sleeping Native American), lies about 13 miles southwest of Jackson, Wyoming, in the G...
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