Teton Science Schools
700 Coyote Canyon Road
Jackson, Wyoming 83001
Phone 307.733.1313
Fax 307.733.7560
Located less than two miles from the town of Jackson, Wyoming, is Teton Science Schools’ newest campus. Perfectly poised to benefit from Jackson Hole’s unique setting and community, the nearly 900-acre Jackson Campus is comprised of creeks, ponds, aspen, conifer, grassland and sage habitats—all-in-all, an outstanding outdoor classroom. Ecological work at this campus specializes in field science experiences within the suburban-rural interface and human-use impacts on our natural communities.
The Jackson Campus is located within easy driving distance of Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton national Forest and the National Elk Refuge.
New Campus Objectives
In March 2002, Teton Science Schools acquired just over 880 acres adjacent to Wyoming Highway 22. With plans to create a new “Jackson Campus” on just 16.5 acres of this property, Teton Science Schools set a goal of maintaining, enhancing, and adding to existing conservation easements on roughly 845 acres of open space.
Jackson Campus and Area Map (click images to view larger)
Jackson Campus Map (click drawing to view larger)
As the illustration shows, there have been nine buildings built on the 16.5 acre building site, concentrating development on less than 2% of the nearly 900 acre Jackson Campus.
The campus and its buildings were designed by Mithun Architects in Seattle, in collaboration with Hawtin Jorgensen Architects of Jackson, with the following objectives in mind:
1. To provide the necessary programmatic space to fulfill the potential of the Teacher Learning Center.
2. To provide necessary classroom space to allow Journeys School to ultimately accommodate 220 Pre-K through 12th grade students while serving as a model school for the Teacher Learning Center.
3. To provide much needed residential space for local, state and national school groups, while offering appropriate residential space for visiting teachers and families.
4. To provide adequate and appropriate outdoor learning space to meet the needs and objectives of the groups mentioned above.
5. To use this tremendously rich and varied natural resource area as a land learning lab while:
6. To utilize and demonstrate high performance building solutions while preserving wildlife habitat and migration corridors.
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