Katie Cooney's shop at 160 East Little Avenue carries handmade jewelry, ceramics, homewares, and fine art from makers across the Rocky Mountain West, alongside a studio used for workshops and events. Teton Valley voters named it the area's best retail shop three years running, from 2023 through 2025.
Best for Artist-made jewelry, ceramics and homewares
This family-owned distillery, established in 2011 at 6,500 feet on Highway 33, makes vodka from Idaho potatoes and Rocky Mountain spring water, distilling in small batches and freeze-filtering through charcoal and garnet sand. Its range extends to huckleberry vodka, bourbon, and American single malt whiskey, with tours on site.
Styled 'Dirt + Snow,' this independent shop at 18 North Main Street sells and rents e-bikes, gravel and mountain bikes, and skis and snowboards, with tuning, service, and boot fitting through the seasons. A second location sits near Grand Targhee on Ski Hill Road in Alta, Wyoming.
Best for E-bikes, mountain bikes and seasonal rentals
Opened in November 2020 by Mike and Amiee, this family-run shop stocks Made-in-Idaho furniture, rugs, wall decor, and metal and wood signs alongside locally made goods with Teton and Idaho themes. The couple doubled their floor space in early 2021 as inventory grew.
On East Little Avenue in downtown Driggs, this ski and bike shop sells and rents alpine and Nordic equipment, mountain and gravel bikes, snowshoes, and boats, with in-house repair and boot fitting. Sitting on the road toward Grand Targhee Resort, it has been voted Best of Teton Valley every year from 2018 through 2025.
At 25 South Main Street, this gallery and shop shows fine art from Teton Valley artists alongside pottery, clothing, souvenirs, and custom framing. It also runs art classes and sip-and-paint sessions.
Jim and Mary Sheehan opened this Driggs, Idaho café in 2023, with Jim roasting on his first commercial machine after 20 years at home. The couple also make their own ice cream, echoing a shop they ran together in the 1990s.
Best for Jim roasting on his first commercial machine after 20 years at home
Jim and Mary Sheehan opened Wydaho Roasters' downtown Driggs café in July 2023, but the path there started decades earlier, on a ski trip to Jackson in 2000 that led the couple over the pass to Grand Targhee — the trip that sold them on the Teton Valley for good. Jim's coffee interest predates the shop by even longer: he began exploring coffee roasting about 35 years ago, and the roaster now running at 495 South Main Street is his first commercial machine after some 20 years of roasting at home.
The couple's history with food-and-drink businesses also runs back to the 1990s, when they ran a cookie and ice cream shop together — Mary made the cookies, Jim the ice cream and waffle cones. That earlier venture shows up again at Wydaho: alongside coffee and daily baked goods, the café makes its own ice cream in-house from scratch. In 2019, Jim had already founded Wydaho Property Management, stocking Teton vacation rentals with fresh-roasted beans — effectively a trial run for the roasting business before the café existed.
The name 'Wydaho' nods to the Teton Valley's straddle of the Wyoming-Idaho border, and the shop leans into that regional identity directly, describing its coffee as 'crafted for the Tetons' rather than positioning itself as a generic specialty roaster that happens to be located there.
Founded by Clair Yost in 1993, this backcountry shop on East Little Avenue outfits skiers and mountaineers with gear, rentals, and repairs, and runs its own avalanche courses and guided tours. Yost invented the Mountain Noodles, fat powder skis built for Teton snow.