Grand Teton National Park protects stunning mountain scenery and is unique because these grand, peaked mountains protrude up from an otherwise flat landscape. The Teton Range is the focal point of the park, the youngest range in the Rocky Mountains. An active normal fault, the Teton Fault, lies on the 40-mile long mountain front. Rock is jetted into the sky some 7,000 feet from the flat plains, with the highest peak at 13,770 feet, the Grand Teton.
I was not aware that when you leave Yellowstone Park through the south entrance, you drive right in to Grand Teton National Park. Road construction gave us a long delay (and an RV driver's challenge) as we inched our way across it's landscape.
