DAY 4 – Monday was our second full day in Jackson, Wyoming, and we went to the nearby Grand Teton National Park. Grand Teton is known mostly for the Teton Range, which is part of the Rockies, and for Jackson Lake, near the beginning of the Snake River. The Snake River flows from its source just outside Yellowstone NP, through Idaho and Oregon into the mighty Colombia River. Because April in Wyoming is still winter, there were a couple feet of snow on the ground. The main outer road was plowed and open to traffic, but the main inner road was not. Even still, we were able to drive the outer road, and see some of the scenery. It was quite cloudy, so we couldn’t see the tops of the big mountains like Grand Teton, a 13,000 foot tall mountain. Also, Jackson Lake was frozen over. It’s about 10 miles long, and at the foot of the Teton Mountains. Even still, the scenery was much better then what we saw while driving on day 2. On the way out of the park, we saw a couple of moose. Neither of them had antlers, but they got nearly 20 feet from the road! Then, on the short drive from the park entrance back to our hotel, we stopped at the National Elk Refuge. There were two gigantic herds of elk there, and we could see them from the visitor center just outside Jackson.
Here are some pictures I took of the places we went today. Remember that you can click on them to see a bigger version.
Lots of elk
(You can see them if you click on the picture)
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