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Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center - Grand Teton National Park 43°39′11.9″N 110°43′4.8″W / 43.653306°N 110.718000°W / 43.653306; -110. This article about a location in Wyoming is a stub .
1946 vacation home and caretaker's cottage, a late-stage representative of the private leases once dotting Teton National Forest. Also noted for the publicity it brought Grand Teton National Park as a presidential retreat in the 1960s, and for its mid-century twist on rustic architecture. [8] 5: Cascade Canyon Barn: Cascade Canyon Barn
The Jenny Lake Ranger Station Historic District comprises an area that was the main point of visitor contact in Grand Teton National Park from the 1930s to 1960. Located near Jenny Lake, the buildings are a mixture of purpose-built structures and existing buildings that were adapted for use by the National Park Service.
The Snake River Land Company Residence and Office are structures associated with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s acquisition of land in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States.. Under the guise of the Snake River Land Company, Rockefeller bought much of the land that he eventually donated to the National Park Service, first as Jackson Hole National Monument and a year later as Grand Teton Nationa
Grand Teton National Park is a national park of the United States in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (1,300 km 2), 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 historical structures of Grand Teton National Park span a period of little more than a century. They share a common heritage of rustic design and construction, first from necessity, and later from a common desire on the part of dude ranch operators and the National Park Service to evoke the aesthetics of the Western frontier.
The Highlands Historic District in Grand Teton National Park is a former private inholding within the park boundary. The inholding began as a 1914 homestead belonging to Harry and Elizabeth Sensenbach, who began in the 1920s to supplement their income by catering to automobile-borne tourists.
Grand Teton is the highest mountain of the Teton Range in Grand Teton National Park at 13,775 feet (4,199 m) [2] in Northwest Wyoming. Below its north face is Teton Glacier . The mountain is a classic destination in American mountaineering via the Owen-Spalding route (II, 5.4), the North Ridge and North Face .