Scuba Lady has it down:
We live in Moab, Utah 250 miles from SLC, 350 from Denver or 450 from Phoenix or Vegas!
We drive to whichever airport we are flying in from the morning before, fly to DFW where a nice hotel with a free shuttle and breakfast is usually under $60 (Hotwire, Hotels.Com) and then the mid-day flight to BZE.
On the way back, I can travel in shorts and a T shirt, and then dress for whatever Utah has to offer the next morning.
Just once arriving in SLC at 11.30 pm in shorts and trying to get a car that has been standing in sub zero temps for 2 weeks was enough to make me smart(er!) in a hurry, and that's without having to check in to a hotel at 1am or drive 5 hours over the mountains!