Rising more than 7,000 feet skyward from the valley floor, the peaks of the Grand Teton National Park lie adorned by snowfields, deep canyons, thick forests, and clear mountain lakes. They beckon the bold, who lust for true mountain adventure in a pristine alpine setting.
Guide to Grand Teton
Grand Teton National Park
Lying just south of world-famous Yellowstone National Park and a few miles north of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Tetons showcase a textbook fault-block produced landscape, resulting from an unimaginably large “block” of the earth’s crust splitting into two separate sections, which then began moving vertically in opposite directions.
Some 30,000 feet of vertical shift between the two masses over nine million years, combined with significant glacial activity, produced the breathtaking scenery witnessed today in Grand Teton. As with most national parks, the landscape remains active today.
This is an outdoor recreationalists paradise. Visitors may enjoy hiking on over 200 miles of trails that wind through deep canyons, across flowery meadows and up steep slopes of granite and gneiss to stunning lookouts of the surrounding valleys and mountains of insane reality! Backcountry campsites provide solitude and a watching the sun set from camp in this park does not fail to provide hikers a rugged, well earned sense of satisfaction.
Rafting, canoeing or kayaking the Snake River is a popular activity and usually promises boaters a journey down a river flanked by a myriad of wildlife such as moose, bison, elk and bald eagles.
Opportunities for such activities exist on the park’s lakes as well, along with guided sightseeing boat tours offered by concessionaires. Fishing is of course, a great idea here as well with the lakes and rivers of Grand Teton swimming with more than a dozen species of fish.
Perhaps the most exhilarating and rewarding of all activities available here though, is a mountaineering journey up one of the range’s 12 peaks of more than 12,000 feet. Capped by the famous Grand Teton itself, at 13,775 feet, these mountains are remote, jagged and brutally vertical. Know what you are doing before choosing this option, or consult with any of a number of local guide services.
Grand Teton National Park greets more guests with each passing year, welcoming over 3.2 million visitors in 2016, making it the 9th most visited park for the centennial of the NPS system. Even with these numbers, the rugged slopes and canyons of the Tetons continue to provide those who seek natural interaction, escape from the stresses of the outside world.
Grand Teton is simply stunning and allows an opportunity to witness a raw mountain range in its youth, soaring upward with each movement of the earth’s crust.
Here mankind can test itself against the odds, and against the mountains.
Quite frankly, this place is sick…
See you there….
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