The National Park Service is facing the daunting task of trying to locate more than 200 people who stated at a prominent hotel at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
The agency put out the request this week asking “if you were a guest at Jackson Lake Lodge between May 5, 2025, and July 27, 2025, and have questions about bat exposures.”
According to the agency, A suspected bat colony was recently discovered in an attic space above guest rooms 516, 518, 520, 522, 524, 526, 528 and 530 at the Jackson Lake Lodge. The National Park Service says there is no immediate threat to the public, but the Wyoming Department of Health and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are currently in the process of investigating and conducting rabies risk assessments.
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What’s more, state public health are reaching out to these guests directly to assess if they had exposure to a bat while staying in any of these rooms and determine if they meet the risk criteria for receiving rabies preventive treatment.
The National Park Service says that, since June 2, the Grand Teton Lodge Company has received eight reports involving overnight guests who may have been exposed to bats in Jackson Lake Lodge rooms. As a precaution, the affected rooms are closed while public health professionals conduct further assessments and provide recommendations for mitigation.
According to Wyoming Public Radio, the affected rooms are a block of cottage-style hotel rooms.
“Although there were a lot of people exposed in this incident, one positive about it is that we know who 100% of those people are,” said Travis Riddell, the director of Teton County Public Health Department, via Wyoming Public Radio. “People in the community in general don’t need to be concerned about this particular incident.”
Anyone who stayed at the Jackson Lake Lodge this season and fears they might have been exposed to a bat should contact Grand Teton Lodge Company at RoomsGTLC@vailresorts.com or 307-543-3044 to determine if you stayed in one of the potentially affected rooms where bats were found.
