Start from 24 curated places around Pinedale, WY, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Wind River Brewing Company
The town's brewpub on West Pine and the spot most locals send newcomers to first, pouring its own beers alongside a menu of burgers, steaks, homemade soups, and a smoked brisket sauced with the brewery's own porter. The room is dog-friendly out on the patio and often has live music going.
Stockman's Saloon & Steakhouse
The special-occasion table in Pinedale, a Western saloon-steakhouse on West Pine doing bone-in ribeyes, prime rib, and the kind of beef the Rocky Mountain front is known for. It is where locals go for an anniversary or to put out-of-town guests in front of a serious steak.
Trails & outdoors
Photographer's Point via Pole Creek Trail
The most popular day hike in the area, a roughly 9.4-mile round trip from the Elkhart Park trailhead that follows the Pole Creek Trail to an overlook where a wall of jagged Continental Divide peaks fills the horizon. The climb is gentle for what you get, which is why this is the one hike everyone recommends for first-timers in the range.
Sacred Rim Trail
A short, well-shaded hike off the end of Skyline Drive near Elkhart Park that opens onto a dramatic rim drop-off staring straight into the Wind River Range to the east. At roughly 3.4 miles round trip with modest climbing, it delivers one of the biggest views in the area for the least effort, which is why it is the local pick for anyone short on time or legs.
Things to do
White Pine Ski Area
A locally owned ski hill ten minutes from downtown that has run for over 80 years, family-oriented and affordable with a mix of groomed green and blue runs, tree powder, and a few black diamonds. Weekend tubing for the kids and a low-key lift-ticket price make it the antithesis of the big resorts a few hours away.
Pinedale Aquatic Center
A surprisingly full community rec center for a town this size, with an eight-lane lap pool, a zero-entry leisure pool with a lazy-river channel, a climbing wall, and a gym. It is the obvious indoor option on a cold, smoky, or rained-out day, and the lazy river keeps the kids busy.
Landmarks & sights
Museum of the Mountain Man
Run by the Sublette County Historical Society up on the hill on the east edge of town, this is the serious accounting of the Rocky Mountain fur trade that put Pinedale on the map. The collection runs past 15,000 artifacts, including a rifle attributed to Jim Bridger and one of the last surviving Native American sheephorn bows, and the downstairs settlement-era rooms are an easy hour on their own.
Fremont Lake
Wyoming's second-largest natural lake sits about four miles up the road from downtown, twelve miles long and over 600 feet deep, glacier-carved and pinched between forested ridges. It is the town's summer backyard for boating and trout fishing, and the lodges along the shore rent everything from canoes to party barges by the hour or day.