A property transfer organized by the Grand Teton National Park Foundation has gained housing for Grand Teton National Park employees while preventing development within the Mormon Row Historic District in the park.
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While the Tetons contain some of the oldest rocks in North America, they are the youngest mountains in the Rockies, at a mere 10 million years in age. In this national park, you can float the Snake River, watch bison grazing and sparring against a background of jagged mountains, and "walk through a historic landmark district." Oh, and the photo ops are pretty fantastic, too.
Work is expected to get under way this spring on a multi-year, multi-million-dollar project to improve access to the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park.
Weather is warming across the country, and desires to get outside and into the National Park System are growing, but exactly how parks will go about reopening continues to be a work in progress not entirely ready for public disclosure. At least one major park concessionaire, unable to safely house workers, announced Tuesday that two of its lodges in Grand Teton National Park are not expected to open this year.
Seated in Jackson Hole, just south of the main entrance to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the town of Jackson is another gateway community struggling with the impact of curtailed tourism, with business owners wondering how long they can survive.
Wyoming officials by month's end plan to ease off on restrictions put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus, but that doesn't mean access to Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks or other park system units in the state will quickly return.
President Trump used an Earth Day event in Washington on Wednesday to say some national parks that have been closed by the coronavirus pandemic could soon reopen, though the National Park Service largely has been quiet on how long it would take parks to reopen.
String Lake at Grand Teton National Park is an incredibly beautiful and highly popular destination. Working to protect its natural resources and visitors who come to admire the setting is a volunteer group that patrols the area.