About Grand Teton National Park
The Tetons do without foothills: the range simply erupts from the flat of Jackson Hole, a wall of gray granite spires rising seven thousand feet from sagebrush and glacial lakes to the 13,775-foot Grand Teton itself. It is the most dramatic mountain front in the American Rockies, and Grand Teton National Park frames it with a string of mirror lakes — Jackson, Jenny, Leigh, Phelps — and the winding Snake River in the foreground of every view.
The park is equal parts scenery and wildlife. Moose browse the willow flats at dawn, elk and pronghorn range the valley, river otters play the Snake's side channels, and grizzlies patrol the northern forests. Jenny Lake anchors the classic day: a boat shuttle across, the climb to Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point, and — for walkers with more in their legs — the granite gates of Cascade Canyon opening into the very heart of the range.
Pavlus Recommendations
How our planners would spend a day in Grand Teton National Park.
Cross Jenny Lake to Cascade Canyon
The little shuttle boat drops you at the range's doorstep: Hidden Falls, Inspiration Point, and then Cascade Canyon's U-shaped corridor running straight in among the spires. The park's essential walk.
Catch dawn at Schwabacher Landing
On still mornings the Snake's beaver ponds mirror the entire range in pink light — the photograph everyone comes for, shared with moose more often than people.
Visit Mormon Row
The century-old Moulton barns stand against the full sweep of the Tetons — the American West's most photographed farmstead, minutes from wandering bison.
Tours That Visit Grand Teton National Park
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