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Jackson Hole Airport is a single Runway public airport located in Jackson , Wyoming . The airport is one of the only ones in the country inside a National Park , in this case Grand Teton . A large fraction of air travellers headed to nearby Yellowstone National Park and western Wyoming go through the airport. HISTORY The airport was created in the 1930s as the best place to put an airport in Teton County . The airport was declared a national monument in 1943, and merged with Grand Teton National Park in 1950. In 1959 the runway was extended to its current length to better accommodate larger planes, especially the DC-3 . In the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of extending the runway to 8,000 feet to accommodate Jet Aircraft was considered. Strong opposition from the National Park Service over noise and other environmental effects prevented such an extension. However, development of better Jet Engines in the late seventies made it possible to land jets on the existing runway. {Link without Title} OTHER IMAGES An and a . AIRLINES
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