The road climbs through sagebrush and ends at a long building of redwood and sandstone, the whole Teton range laid out across the valley in front of it. After more than a year dark, the lights are on again.
Amangani holds a butte above Jackson Hole. It opened in 1998 as the first Aman in North America, a low silhouette set into the ridgeline of East Gros Ventre at around seven thousand feet. From the terrace the Snake River Valley falls away and the Tetons stand on the far side of it. Yellowstone is an hour north.
The resort closed in April 2025. The work has run longer than a single winter, and it reopens this summer with every room rebuilt and the spa and dining wings larger than before. Aman has spent the closure on the building rather than around it.
The architecture
Ed Tuttle drew the original. Redwood and sandstone, high ceilings, fireplaces tall enough to stand inside, a horizon of glass turned toward the mountains. The renovation keeps all of it. The façade stays, the proportions stay, the long lines that hold the view stay.
What changes sits underneath. Natural materials and warm tones carry through the new interiors, tuned to the landscape instead of competing with it. The point was never to redraw Tuttle's building. It was to bring the inside up to the level of the setting.
The rooms
Every guestroom has been refurbished. The larger suites gain deep soaking tubs, bigger fireplaces, and seating arranged toward the glass, so the mountains do most of the decorating. The plans add a presidential suite, the first the property has had.
Amangani never needed more than the butte and the view. The work simply brings the building up to meet them.
The Splendid EditThe spa
Wellness has always carried weight here. The spa and fitness areas grow, with more treatment rooms and holistic zones that open between indoors and out. The active and the restful sit side by side, which suits a place where guests ski in the morning and want a steam by dusk.
The cantilevered pool returns to its spot on the edge of the ridge. It runs warm through the cold months, its far lip seeming to spill toward the valley, the Tetons filling the frame beyond the water. It is the image most people carry away from Amangani, and it survives the renovation intact.
The pool at Amangani, set on the edge of the ridge above the valley · Courtesy of Aman
Dining
The Grill keeps its place as the main room, New American and built around Wyoming produce, beef, and game, with an expanded menu that reaches further afield. The social spaces around it have been reworked as well, holding the warmth that made dining here feel like a long evening rather than a stop.
The verdict
Jackson Hole has more beds than it did when Amangani opened, and more of them call themselves luxury. None of them have the butte. The resort still sits alone on its ridge, above the town and apart from it, with the national parks on its doorstep and the valley as its only neighbour.
Go in summer for the hiking and the long light, or in winter for the skiing and the warm pool against the snow. Ask for a Grand Teton suite. Stay long enough to use the new spa, then take the drive up to Yellowstone before you leave.
Amangani, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The resort reopens in summer 2026. Book through aman.com.
Photography courtesy of Aman · Amangani, Jackson Hole