The pull-offs along Highway 33 just north and south of Tetonia give what many photographers consider the best roadside view of the Teton Range. Unlike the Wyoming side, where the peaks rise behind the lakes of Grand Teton National Park, here you see them across an open agricultural foreground — barbed-wire fences, grain bins, horses, and rolling fields of barley and hay. The effect is dramatic and very western.
Light is everything. Sunrise lights the eastern face of the peaks directly and the range glows orange against a still-dark sky. Late afternoon, with the sun dropping behind the Big Hole Mountains at your back, casts the Tetons in warm side-light and shadows the foreground in deep blue. Winter, when the fields are white and the peaks are heavily snowed, is arguably the most striking time, though the wind can be brutal.