Last Call for the Best Pizza in the Valley!

Leek's Pizzeria is open for just a couple more weeks. It's time to come up and have some of the best pizza, sandwiches, and salads in the valley before they close up for the year on September 5th. All of Leek's pizza dough is made fresh by hand with organic ingredients, and the selection of toppings is unbeatable. There are several beers and wines available and delicious ice cream to top it all off with.

Leek's is located in a beautiful bay at the north end of Jackson Lake that brags some of the most stunning views of the Teton Range. It is especially fun to boat up from the Signal Mountain marina and dock the boat for a spell to have some great food and enjoy the location. The staff are charming and look forward to seeing you! Be sure to come up and chow down before you have to wait all the way until next summer!

View of Mt. Moran from Leek's

Sunset over Leek's Marina

Views of the north end of the Teton Range from Leek's

Pizza Professionals!

Wildflowers of Grand Teton National Park

The winter was unstoppable this year. The snow piled up continuosly from January to May with many areas of Jackson Hole recieving over 700 inches of snow throughout the season (that's nearly 60 feet!). Although this exceptional amount of snow made for a slow start to our hiking season, it has some neat benefits, one being an abundance of water for the wildflowers of Grand Teton National Park to drink up all summer.

As things thawed throughout May and June and the sagebrush began to push through the snow cover we began to see the first spots of brilliant color announcing that flowers were on their way. It wasn't long before fields of yellow arrowleaf balsamroot, and blue lupine were blanketing sections of the valley floor.

The flowers begin blooming at the lower elevations and climb up the mountainsides chasing the receding snow. Different types of flowers grow at different elevations. Larger more robust species like the arrowleaf balsamroot, lupine, sticky geranium and indian paintbrush thrive in the valley. Moving up through the forests and mid-elevations you may find more intricate flowers such as monkshood, harebell, columbine, steer's head or shooting star. In the upper alpine zone's the flowers are small and close to the ground, look for moss campion, alpine forget-me-not and flox.

The color these flowers provide polk-a-dots and embellishes an already magnificent landscape.