What Are We Doing In Jackson, Wyoming This Weekend? 

There’s a particular kind of weekend in Jackson when you realize you don’t actually need to do that much.

A morning wandering the Town Square. Something delicious, eaten outside. A close-up look at a bird of prey. A couple of hours letting the kids build, touch, make, and imagine. Then, if everyone still has some gas in the tank, a blanket in the park and absolutely no agenda.

That’s the idea behind Mosey Outing Club: our ongoing field guide to the places, people, and little adventures that make a Mosey locale feel like home.

This weekend, we’re keeping things close to town and leaning into the kind of Jackson day that works for the whole family: a little wild, a little educational, plenty of snacks, and enough room for the kids to lead the way.

Here’s how we’d Mosey through a weekend in Jackson with our littles.

Saturday Morning: Start at the Farmers Market

First stop: the Jackson Hole Farmers Market on Town Square.

Saturday mornings here have a rhythm of their own. From 8 a.m. to noon, the Square fills with local food and drink vendors, music, families, and the kind of low-key energy that makes you want to linger a little longer. The market runs every Saturday through September 26, so late summer is prime time for a visit.

With kids, the trick is not to approach the farmers market like you're trying to efficiently complete your grocery list.

Let them wander.

Pick out something you've never tried. Find a treat, the donuts from Larks Meadow Farms are the best in town. Let the kids dance freely to the music. Buy some flowers. Give everyone a small mission and suddenly a trip to the market becomes an adventure.

We also love that this is a very Jackson kind of introduction to the weekend. The market is intentionally rooted in local farms, ranches, food makers, and community, and every Saturday vendors contribute 1% of their sales to a featured local nonprofit.

Don't rush through the Square. It’s not a Farmer’s Market Saturday without the kids hitting the balloon man cart for a sword, butterfly wings, or wizard staff, which typically lasts all of 5 minutes. 

Late Morning (if the weather isn’t ideal for time outdoors): Let Them Take Over the Children's Museum -OR- Meet the Raptors 

If the weather isn’t ideal for being outside, the Jackson Hole Children's Museum is exactly the kind of place we want to have in our back pocket for a Jackson weekend. 

The museum is designed around hands-on exploration, with opportunities for kids to build, create, imagine, and get into the kind of productive trouble that adults sometimes call “play.” It's currently open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during summer hours.

Let the kids pick what looks interesting. The point isn't to see the museum, it's to see what your kid does when you give them a room full of things to explore. If you're traveling with multiple ages, embrace the fact that everyone may want to do something completely different.

If you’d rather trade tinkering for talons, head toward Wilson for a lesson in one of Wyoming's most impressive residents: the raptor. At the Teton Raptor Center, the Raptor Adaptations: Masters of Survival program gets kids thinking about what actually makes a bird a bird of prey. The one-hour program explores the specialized adaptations that allow raptors to thrive in different environments, with three to four avian ambassadors making an appearance.

It's the kind of experience that tends to stick with kids because they're actually seeing animals up close. And, inevitably, someone will leave with a new favorite bird.

Afternoon: Find A Swimming Hole -OR- Picnic in the Park Pick up a few provisions (maybe something you discovered at the market that morning), grab a blanket, and settle into one of Jackson's parks for an uncomplicated picnic.

No reservation. No itinerary. Just food, grass, mountain air, hopefully a playground, and a little time to do nothing.

This might be our favorite part of the whole day.

Because family travel can so easily become a parade of activities: a picnic breaks the rhythm.

The kids can run. Someone can lie on the blanket. Someone can eat their weight in berries. You can look up at the Tetons and remember that you're in one of the most beautiful places in the country, and you don't need to be actively doing anything to enjoy it.

The Jackson Weekend, the Mosey Way

With these ideas in mind, you may be wondering what Lou Lou’s weekend with two little kids actually looks like?

Farmers Market for flowers, donuts, berries, and maybe some produce if mom can slip away to actually shop. Wander, linger, find friends, dance, grab a balloon, have a balloon sword fight. Find a dog to snuggle. 

Head to the creek behind the History Museum: Let mom and dad get a coffee and sit down while the kids wander in the creek zone, and the nicest lawn in town. Climb on the wooden bison structure, find a book in the free library, imagine fairy houses in tree holes. Soon enough, it's lunch. 

Back home on the bike for lunch, and maybe some quiet time, maybe not. 

If it's hot, find some WATER - BLM land, Snake River boat launch, a friend's pool membership. Find water and cool off. Throw rocks on the banks of the snake, swim in the eddy, get dirty, water color, make friendship bracelets, eat chicken tenders at the club and swim until our eyes are bloodshot. 

Quick pitstop for an ice cream cone on the way home. "White" for Harvey, something fruity for Cece. 

Dinner at home, sometimes in the park, sometimes with friends, always something yummy, and hopefully fresh from the morning's vittles. 

It's a weekend that moves, but doesn't feel rushed.

And maybe that's the whole point of Mosey Outing Club.

We're interested in the places that help you experience a destination rather than simply check it off a list. The little local rituals. The people doing interesting things. The places kids remember. The afternoons that don't quite go according to plan but somehow become the best part.

So if you're in Jackson with littles this weekend, leave a little room in the schedule.

Follow their curiosity.

Get the pastry.

Look at the hawk.

Build something.

Eat outside.

And Mosey on.