Jackson Hole Airport taxiway design grant cleared at $1.8 million

Teton County approved a $1,805,522 Federal Aviation Administration grant for the design phase of rehabilitating South Taxiway A at Jackson Hole Airport, a piece of airfield infrastructure that has gone without major rehab since 2001. The action appears in the county's April 21 Board of County Commissioners minutes, and the grant packet says the money covers 93.75% of design costs for the southern portion of Taxiway A plus connector taxiways A2 and A3. This is not an expansion project. It is pavement work on a section the airport says has outlived its intended design life.

The bigger number is still ahead. The same grant packet estimates construction at about $29 million, with the airport planning to chase additional federal funding for that phase. Recent taxiway work already rebuilt connector taxiways A1 and A4 in 2022, and the north end of Taxiway A by the deice pad has also been rehabilitated, so this design grant lines up the remaining southern segment. One grant condition also requires a federally compliant pavement preventive maintenance program, which is the less glamorous part of keeping the airport's access surface from sliding into a much costlier rebuild cycle.