Grand Teton National Park
is a US National Park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres, the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole.
The map shows the unique nature of this park. On the West side are the incredible peaks of the Grand Teton Range and the East side the beautiful meadows and lakes of Jackson Hole Valley.
The Cunningham Cabin stands as one of the valley’s few remaining structures from the homesteading era when settlers filed nearly 400 claims in Jackson Hole. In the 1880s, John and Margaret Cunningham staked a claim for the Bar Flying U Ranch. Cunningham built his cabin in 1888 in the Appalachian style, commonly called “double-pen” or “dog-trot.”
Ansel Adams
one of Americas most famous early National Park photographers summed up the Grand Tetons best -
The grand lift of the Tetons is … a primal gesture of the Earth beneath a greater sky.
