GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK

September 7th to 10th, 2009

Leaving Hungry Horse, MT we headed south.  We drove along the east side Flathead Lake and the Flathead Indian reservation.

 

 

We spent one night at the 2 Bar Lazy H RV park in Butte,MT on our way to Rexburg Idaho. It was just a place to spend the night.   We had decided to stay in Rexburg and drive the 90 miles to the Teton's  to avoid taking the RV's over the road there and back again.

The RV park at Rexburg was on a small lake and very pleasant.  We were able to walk the 1 mile around it.

                          

The town of Rexburg was a busy place,  with confusing street numberings but it did have our favorite landmark .....Dairy Queen.

                                 

The drive to the Teton's was a pretty one, over Teton Pass at 8,429 feet with a steep 10% grade.  At the summit you look down onto Jackson Hole. The town of Jackson is there.    

                               

                                   

                                                                The wildflowers were blooming....

We liked the entrance to the park in Jackson, WY.  There were four and each was made out of hundreds of ELK antlers.

                                                          

The Elk weren't in the nearby National Elk Refuge when we were there but we did stop at The National Museum of Wildlife Art where there were bronze statues of some.  It was a very nice display both outdoors and in.

                                 

                                         

                                       There was even a display of wildlife paintings and drawings.

                                     

An interesting thing about the Grand Teton National Park is their lack of  foothills.  Earthquakes caused them to rise as the valley floor dropped.

                                                     

                We finally saw the moose we had been watching for .  There were 3 in among some trees.

                         

                                We enjoyed the scenery on the 33mile drive through the Tetons.

                           

                              We saw several glaciers including the Teton Glacier below.

                                                                                 

                               The  Greg Thomas Discovery and Visitor center had nice displays.

                                        

                                                                                 

                                

                           Across the road from the lodge we took a short hike down to the water.

                                

             Jenny Lake was beautiful.                                             We went down to the water.

                                

                                 

                On our back to the RV Park we took another look at the Elk antlers at the city park in Jackson.

                                               

             Before leaving the park we picked up some willow branches for Ron & Bernice to carve into chains.

                                    

             Time to head for Salt Lake City.