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Fall on Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway

Grand Teton National Park is a yearly destination for many tourists and photographers during the yearly fall foliage season. Yes, I know, it’s beautiful! You have chances to put the scenic Teton range behind the colorful willows, cottonwoods, and aspens.

Oxbow Bend Alpenglow

If you ever feel you have “done” GTNP during this time of the year, you just might be open to a new venue at some point in the future. If so, check out this new post on my new site at Mike Jackson Photography.

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

The Million Dollar Highway connects Ouray, CO to Durango, CO. ,The narrow, winding road spans 70 miles  including three high mountain passes, several counties, and several National Forests. The views are GRAND...er…Vast!

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

Most readers at Best of the Tetons already know that Darla and I moved to Loveland, CO last summer. Around 5 years ago, I started my photo tour business, which in effect, killed any chances I would ever have to get to the Million Dollar Highway in the fall. That was always my busiest period in the Tetons. After closing that business and moving, I now have a fair amount of time to explore the entire region of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. Just about anything and everything is fair game on my new site.

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

This new Featured Subject page on my new site is generously loaded with photos taken during peak foliage season on the Million Dollar Highway!

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

 Please, click any of the links to visit the page, and if you like what you see, click the Subscribe Today button on the home page.

Cheers, Mike Jackson

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Fall on Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway

Grand Teton National Park is a yearly destination for many tourists and photographers during the yearly fall foliage season. Yes, I know, it’s beautiful! You have chances to put the scenic Teton range behind the colorful willows, cottonwoods, and aspens.

Oxbow Bend Alpenglow

If you ever feel you have “done” GTNP during this time of the year, you just might be open to a new venue at some point in the future. If so, check out this new post on my new site at Mike Jackson Photography.

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

The Million Dollar Highway connects Ouray, CO to Durango, CO. ,The narrow, winding road spans 70 miles  including three high mountain passes, several counties, and several National Forests. The views are GRAND...er…Vast!

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

Most readers at Best of the Tetons already know that Darla and I moved to Loveland, CO last summer. Around 5 years ago, I started my photo tour business, which in effect, killed any chances I would ever have to get to the Million Dollar Highway in the fall. That was always my busiest period in the Tetons. After closing that business and moving, I now have a fair amount of time to explore the entire region of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. Just about anything and everything is fair game on my new site.

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

Million Dollar Highway

This new Featured Subject page on my new site is generously loaded with photos taken during peak foliage season on the Million Dollar Highway!

Fall on the Million Dollar Highway with MANY more photos!

 Please, click any of the links to visit the page, and if you like what you see, click the Subscribe Today button on the home page.

Cheers, Mike Jackson

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Fall in the Rockies!

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Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

I am in Colorado now! I spent a lot of my fall driving around the region, which included a few days in the Tetons. On my way back to Loveland, I drove through parts of Utah, then on to Colorado. It timed it perfectly for the Million Dollar Highway! Wow! This page includes a lot of photo from the Loveland area and several fall shots from Rocky Mountain National Park. Idaho’s foliage was too early to get much color. It usually gets to peak a week or two after most of the Teton leaves are on the ground.

The link above will take you to my new site. I have been working on it after moving to Colorado. Instead of focusing primarily on JH and the Tetons, this new one covers a much broader scope, which you might suggest covers the “Colorado Foothills and the Northern Rockies”.

Million Dollar Highway

I am gradually morphing away from Best of the Tetons and spending my time at Mike Jackson Photography. It is similar, but has a new look and a broader scope. Click the link to go to the home page. While there, please consider subscribing to that site by clicking on the Subscribe Today button.

Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

Million Dollar Highway

The Million Dollar Highway was SPECTACULAR! It covers three mountain passes between Ouray and Durango. Actually, I took thousands of photos there over two days. There were too many to include on the Fall in the Rockies page, so I am planning on another page dedicated just to the Million Dollar Highway. (Sign up there to get notifications)

Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

Fall Snow

Fall lasts a lot longer here in the Loveland area…some extending into the first week of November!

From what I hear and see on social media, Jackson has been hit early with this year’s snow. That’s great, because the Tetons will need all they can get to help fill Jackson Lake. In Loveland, we’ve only had one snow event. It melted in one day! We are expecting snow again tomorrow, followed by a week or so or relatively warm weather

Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

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Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

This page on Best of the Tetons is meant to hopefully entice you to go to my new site and click the Subscribe Today button (on the home page). I believe if you like Best of the Tetons, you will equally enjoy the new site!

Bighorn Ram

Mike Jackson Photography

Click this link above to go directly to the new home page! You should notice the new look but a lot is very similar to Best of the Tetons. I changed the terminology a bit: Feature Post = Featured Subject and my November Daily Journal for GTNP and JH is simply the November Journal.

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Teton News:

I called around for updates for the Tetons. I hear there are a lot of moose out in the sage flats north of Kelly. With the early snow, there are also a lot of hunters in the same area trying to bag an elk. A good number of elk have made their way to the National Elk Refuge. I received a report of around 6 mountain goats in the Snake River Canyon. Bighorns are on the National Elk Refuge, including a few rams.

Fall in the Rockies: Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado

Have a great November and Thanksgiving holiday! Mike Jackson

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November 2022 Daily Journal For GTNP & JH

Welcome to November 2022!

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Fall in the Rockies

New Featured Subject on MikeJacksonPhotography.com: Fall on the Million Dollar Highway

Check out this new page on my new site!  This page has a LOT MORE photos than I posted in the recent page. Be sure to click the Subscribe Today button on the home page!

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November 29, 2022

GTNP Reports and Comments

  • While Loveland, CO has had only a couple of light snow storms so far this year, JH and GTNP has had a LOT of snow already.  Both are line for more storms.
  • The Elk Reduction Program (Elk Hunt) in GTNP is still underway. Use caution as Moose and Elk are often in the same areas where hunters are trying to bag a cow elk.
  • There are numerous Moose out on the sage flats now. Numerous Elk have made it to the National Elk Refuge. Bison have been seen along the Gros Ventre Road.
  • Greg and Sandy Balvin recently posted a video on Facebook showing a bull Moose that “could be” Shoshone. The bull’s paddles look a lot like Shoshone’s paddles. If it is indeed him, his brow tines are less pronounced this year.
  • I received a few reports that a good sized herd (maybe 40) Bighorn Sheep have moved onto Miller Butte on the National Elk Refuge. No head butting yet, but that should begin soon.
  • Expect Antelope Flats Road to be open until the end of the Elk Hunt sometime around December 7-10 (?) at which time the Park Service quits plowing the road and barricades it at each end.
  • This usually a good time to see Trumpeter Swans along Flat Creek.

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Jackson Peak

As most people already know, last June Darla and I pulled up stakes in Jackson Hole and moved to Loveland, CO. I still get a few reports from friends in Jackson Hole, so I can give at least SOME information that might be valuable you are visiting the area.

Jackson Hole and Grand Teton National Park Notes

  • The region received a fair amount of snow during the last week of October, but most of it has melted.
  • GTNP has been trapping grizzlies. They are asking people to stay away from the trapping areas.
  • On November 1st, the Teton Park Road closed for the season. AKA Inner Park Loop Road.
  • The southern portion of the Moose-Wilson Road has been closed for quite a while and will be under construction for several years.
  • The Elk Reduction Program (elk hunt) in GTNP begins on November 7th. For your safety, wear orange if roaming around in the hunt areas.
  • Antelope Flats Road always remains open until after the last day of the Elk Reduction Program in early December.
  • Moose should be moving out of the river bottoms and onto the sage flats, if not already.
  • I saw a video of what appeared to be the Moose I always called Shoshone (My favorite bull Moose).We were hoping he was still alive, but we found out the video clip was taken a couple of years ago.
  • A couple of Bighorn ewes are reported on the National Elk Refuge. Watch for them in larger numbers after the next big storm. The rut usually is underway by late November.
  • Reports suggest 399 went south and is waiting for gunshots. 610 is being elusive, crossing once in a while, but not giving a show. Blondie’s sub-adult has been seen in her traditional zones. Felicia still had two cubs on Togwotee Pass.
  • Generally, November is a great month to photograph wildlife, especially Moose and Bighorns. Trumpeter Swans move back to the valley and can often be seen along Flat Creek.

New Gates Installed in GTNP (arghhhhhhh!)

In keeping with the apparent new policy of closing an area instead of controlling it, the Park Service has erected a lot of NEW GATES inside the park.

  • Elk Ranch Road
  • Wolf Ranch Road
  • Cattleman’s Bridge Road
  • Pilgrim Creek Road
  • The Dump Road

Of course, the following side roads already have gates:

  • RKO Road
  • Bar-B-C Road (already closed for the season)
  • Teton Park Road (closed November 1st)
  • Schwabacher Landing (I am not sure if it is still open as of today)
  • Moose-Wilson Road
  • Two Ocean Lake Road

Thanks to Paul Gore!

Friend and photographer, Paul Gore, sent a check to help keep Best of the Tetons online at least until the end of December. This site has a wealth of information for anyone interested in the Tetons! After moving to Colorado, I started a new site and have been actively populating it with new photos and content, some of which overlaps with content I might have posted here (Moose, Elk, Bighorns, Deer, fall Foliage, Waterfowl, etc). In short, I am dedicating the bulk of my time on that site at the expense of this site.

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Mike Jackson Photography

Click the thumbnail above to go to the new Home Page!

I would encourage all of my Best of the Tetons readers to visit the link above or the October Journal link below. The October Journal is LOADED with photos!

October Journal at MikeJacksonPhotography.com

If you like Best of the Tetons, I am sure you will enjoy Mike Jackson Photography! Click the Subscribe Now button on the home page to get notifications of new pages and posts.

Oh yes, I have a lot of new Featured Subjects queued up at Mike Jackson Photography and should start posting them very soon:

  • Fall in the Rockies (Wyoming Idaho, Utah, Colorado)
  • Fall on the Million Dollar Highway (Ouray to Silverton, CO)
  • Carousel at Nederland (CO)

I will be posting a new November Journal on that site, too!

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