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Grand Teton Rangers Spend Night In The Mountains To Rescue Teens

The U.S. Postal Service has nothing on National Park Service rangers when it comes to going out into the "gloom of night" when help is needed. A teen who was banged up by a 30-foot-or-so fall while climbing with a buddy in Grand Teton National Park owes a world of thanks to the park's rangers for hiking deep into the night, and high into the park, to rescue them.

Wild Treasures Supports Wildlife And Natural Resource Conservation In Grand Teton

Grand Teton National Park anchors the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where native flora and fauna interact much as they have for thousands of years in one of the largest intact temperate ecological systems on Earth. Grand Teton is a place where stunning landscapes, fabled wildlife, mindful stewardship, and the latest science come together to create an immersive visitor experience that forges connections with far-reaching resonance. Park visitors and supporters become curators, keepers, and custodians of a cherished legacy.

A Day In The Park: Grand Teton National Park

Standing atop Grand Teton, it's easy to see the handiwork of Horace Albright and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. To the southeast is Timbered Island, down below is Jenny Lake, and a bit to the northeast is Jackson Lake. Not in view are the "shabby developments littering the roadway from Menors Ferry to Moran and along Jenny Lake’s south and east shores" that Mr. Rockefeller and Albright, then Yellowstone National Park's superintendent, saw in 1924.

Traveler Special Report: Some Friends Groups Asked To Provide "Margin Of Survival"

For eight years, families whose memories of the Blue Ridge Parkway were nurtured around summer evenings chasing fireflies on the rolling highland meadows below Bluffs Lodge at Milepost 241 have wondered when it might reopen. But a question that might better be asked of the charming 24-room lodge that opened in 1949 is whether it ever will be able to reopen or instead be razed.

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