Teton Pass trail takes a big step, county tees up an early-work contract

If you use Teton Pass to ride, run, or ski, the county’s agenda has one item that matters more than the usual voucher-meeting churn: commissioners are slated to act on a construction manager at risk (CMAR) contract and Amendment #1 for an early work package guaranteed maximum price (GMP) for the Teton Pass Trail.

That is the moment when a trail stops being a line on a map and starts turning into mobilization dates, staging areas, and real decisions about what stays open, what gets detoured, and for how long. The agenda does not spell out the closure plan, but approving an early-work GMP is typically how you get moving on the parts of a project that have to happen first, often driven by short mountain seasons and permitting windows.

The same Board of County Commissioners voucher meeting agenda also includes an invitation item tied to a joint workshop on the Grand Targhee Ski Resort expansion, plus routine contracts and correspondence. But for locals who measure summer in trail days, the Pass trail contract is the one to watch.