Grand Teton National Park is a national park created in 1929. Found in northwestern Wyoming just south of Yellowstone National Park, the park comes with a spectacular series of peaks and canyons in the Teton Range, which is a part of the Rocky Mountains. Grand Teton, the highest peak, is 4197 m (13,770 feet) above sea level. Additional summits, all over 3658 m (12,000 ft), include Mount Owen, Middle Teton, South Teton, Mount Moran, Mount Teewinot, and Thor Peak.
Native Americans once hunted and fished in the area, fur traders explored the region during the early nineteenth century, and homesteaders settled here later in the century. The majestic peaks of the Tetons elevate more than a mile above the floor of Jackson Hole, a high valley of meadows and forests crossed by the Snake River. Jackson Hole once was a national monument and became part of the park during 1950. The mountain range is laced with canyons made by the action of glaciers, and glacial lakes at the foot of the range include Jenny Lake, Leigh Lake, and Jackson Lake, the second largest lake in Wyoming. The Snake River as well as the park's several lakes supports an abundance of aquatic life. Plant life in the park ranges from sagebrush and wildflowers in Jackson Hole, to forests of cottonwood and spruce growing along the Snake River, and subalpine meadows at the foot of the mountains. The park is the natural habitat of moose, bears, coyotes, and deer. As being a wildlife sanctuary, it's the winter feeding ground of among the largest elk herds in North America, along with the home of bald eagles, Canada geese, great blue herons, osprey, and rare trumpeter swans.
Snake (river, United States), formerly the Lewis River, is a river within the northwestern United States, chief tributary of the Columbia River. It rises in Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming. From Shoshone, Lewis, and Heart lakes in that park, the South Fork streams south, extending into Jackson Lake, from which it moves through Jackson Hole, Wyoming. On the Idaho-Wyoming boundary it enters a long canyon where the well-known Shoshone Falls is situated. It receives the North Fork in eastern Idaho and then flows west across Idaho to a point on the Oregon-Idaho line. Also there it turns suddenly north; for about 274 km (about 170 mi), it forms the boundary between those states and for around 48 km (30 mi) it forms the boundary between Idaho and Washington. It crosses into Washington at Lewiston, flows northwest, west, and southwest, and connects the Columbia near Pasco. The river is about 1670 km (about 1038 mi) long.
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