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Grand Teton
_National Park_
WYOMING
[Illustration: U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR · March 3, 1849]
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Oscar L. Chapman, _Secretary_
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Conrad L. Wirth, _Director_
WARNING
This park, mostly wilderness, is the home of many wild animals, which
roam it unmolested. Though they may seem tame, they are not! Some have
been known to attack visitors without apparent provocation and have
caused serious injury. Watch them at a safe distance; when driving, do
not stop unless you can pull off the road; and stay in your car. For
your safety, we must enforce the regulation which prohibits feeding or
molesting these wild animals. Campers, and those who frequent roads and
trails on foot, should exercise constant care to avoid attacks and
injuries.
_Historic Events_
1807-8 Discovery of the Tetons by John Colter.
1811 The West-bound Astorians crossed Teton Pass.
1818 Canadian fur traders under Donald McKenzie ascended Snake
River to its headwaters.
1824 American trappers under Jedediah Smith reached Jackson Hole.
1825-40 Zenith of the fur trade in Jackson Hole and the Rocky
Mountain Region.
1829 William Sublette named "Jackson's Hole" after his partner
in the fur trade, David E. Jackson.
1832 Rendezvous of fur trappers in Pierre's Hole. Battle of
Pierre's Hole.
1842 Alleged attempt to climb the Grand Teton by Michaud.
1860 Jim Bridger guided Capt. W. F. Raynolds' expedition through
Teton country.
1872 Disputed ascent of Grand Teton by Langford and Stevenson.
William H. Jackson, with Hayden geological survey party,
took first photographs of the Tetons.
1877 Hayden survey party of Orestes St. John made geological
studies in the Tetons.
1879 Thomas Moran painted the Teton Range.
1884 The first settlers entered Jackson Hole.
1897 Teton Forest Reserve established.
1898 The Owen Spalding party made an ascent of the Grand Teton.
1929 Grand Teton National Park established and dedicated.
1943 Jackson Hole National Monument established.
1950 Grand Teton National Park enlarged by the addition of most
of Jackson Hole National Monument.
Grand Teton
NATIONAL PARK
Grand Teton National Park includes the most scenic portion of the
majestic Teton Mountain Range and the northern portion of Jackson Hole,
a high mountain valley famous for its associations with early western
history. Through congressional action in 1950 the greater portion of the
former Jackson Hole National Monument was added to the park. The
portions not so added were included in the National Elk Refuge and the
Teton National Forest. The enlarged park contains approximately 300,000
acres of Federal lands.
The park is a part of the National Park System owned by the people of
the United States and administered for them by the National Park Service
of the Department of the Interior.
The great array of peaks which constitute the scenic climax of Grand
Teton National Park is one of the noblest in the world. Southwest of
Jenny Lake, which is in the central portion of the park, is a
culminating group of lofty peaks whose dominating feature is the Grand
Teton. Much of the mountainous area of the park is above timber line;
the Grand Teton rises to 13,766 feet and towers more than 7,000 feet
above the floor of Jackson Hole.
The Snake River, flowing south from Yellowstone National Park, widens
into Jackson Lake, 14 miles long. Below the lake, the swift river
bisects and cuts ever deeper into the glacial outwash plain of the Ice
Age. North of this upland valley lie the high plateaus of Yellowstone
National Park; on the east and south are the Mount Leidy highlands and
the Gros Ventre Mountains. Emma Matilda and Two Ocean, two lovely
mountain lakes, lie north of the Snake and its tributary, Buffalo Fork.
Together the Teton Mountains and Jackson Hole form a landscape of
matchless grandeur and majesty unlike any other in America.