If you’re looking to get high off good beer, you would formerly be advised to visit the town of Leadville, CO, the highest city in the U.S. at an elevation of 10,430 feet. Alack, its brewpub, Rosie’s, evaporated into thin air. (Sorry.) Nevertheless, there are several bucolic settings to experience the Great Outdoors and quaff local beers brewed with Rocky Mountain waters. Mountain resorts are never cheap, but when you take into consideration that low level of oxygen up in those altitudes will have you feeling those couple of pints that much faster, you still get your money’s worth. Here are three such settings where the scenery alone is value added.

Jackson, Wyoming

Set in the Teton Mountains’ Jackson Hole valley, the town of Jackson (elevation: 6,200 feet) is a magnet for ski bums, where a fair amount of the population are those who came simply to do a season and just haven’t left (yet). It’s proximity to two National Parks―Grand Teton and Yellowstone―and its grade A outdoor sportiness make it a ritzy playground with touches of its Wild West past. When the snow melts of the Tetons, it melts into the Snake River and then the mountain bikers and fisherman fill in any ground not stuffed with families of tourists. If you’re going to Yellowstone―and if you haven’t been yet, the 55-mile drive is a must since its flora, fauna and geothermic wonderments are more astounding than words can express―avoid its nearby motels and stay here.

Perhaps the most popular bar is the Mangy Moose (3285 W. McCollister Drive) by virtue of its après ski allure at the base of Jackson Hole Resort, but there is a bona fide brewpub, Snake River Brewing(265 South Millward St.), where you can get a buffalo burger and wash it down with their award-winning Zonker Stout or any of the numerous draft-only selections.

Having said that, there is another brewpub in town, of sorts. Thai Me Up (75 E. Pearl Ave.) is the brainchild of Jeremy Tofte, a Bellingham, WA native who is the portrait of the aforementioned ski bum. Time spent in beerific cities such as Portland and San Diego also turned him into a beer geek and, wanting to see Jackson home to five breweries, not to mention some decent Thai food, took the DIY approach and opened his own Thai place in 2000. Starting in 2009 he now commercially sells the output of his 20-gallon (yes, gallon) system.

Tofte has big aspirations for growing the beer community and one of his vehicles is blogging for Planet Jackson Hole about beer. As a lover of big, hoppy beers, he says it wasn’t until his IPA found many a fan in town that Snake River finally brewed one of their own. His giddy goal is to brew a Teton Springs IPA using water carried down from high atop the Grand Teton with an altitude over 13,000 feet.