Grand Teton National Park is located in the Rocky Mountains of western Wyoming and is connected to Yellowstone National Park to the north.
The park comprises mainly the 64-kilometer-long Teton Mountain range, with the highest peak, Grand Teton, standing at 4,200 meters and covered in snow year-round.
The park also boasts many clear plateau lakes, including Jackson Lake and Jenny Lake. Like Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Teton National Park is also a popular ski resort in the United States.
The main attractions of the park include:
Grand Teton: A small mountain range, approximately 60 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide, with eight peaks exceeding 3,658 meters above sea level.
The highest peak of the Grand Teton is 4,198 meters above sea level. The Grand Teton Mountains have uplifted millions of years ago and subsequent erosion washed away the relatively soft sedimentary rock layers on the outer layers of the mountains, exposing the hard granite and gneiss that make up the deep underground.
About 150,000 years ago during the Ice Age, the climate here gradually cooled.
Lake Jackson: The lakes in Grand Teton National Park mainly come from the streams and winter snow in the Grand Teton Mountains, with the largest natural lake in the park being Jackson Lake, which is approximately 26 kilometers long and 130 meters deep.
What sets it apart from other lakes in the park is that its main water source is the Snake River, which flows into the streams in the southern half of Yellowstone National Park. As a result, Lake Jackson is very important for the agricultural irrigation of its western neighbor, Idaho.
Another Park:
Yellowstone National Park: On March 1, 1872, it was officially established as a national park for the protection of wild animals and natural resources.
In 1978, it was included in the "World Heritage List" as a world natural heritage site. It is the world's first national park and is located primarily in the US state of Wyoming, with parts in Montana and Idaho.
Yellowstone National Park boasts one of the largest craters in the world and one of the largest forests in the world. It has over 10,000 hot springs and more than 300 geysers, as well as over 290 waterfalls.
The park features the Midway Geyser Basin, the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, and the Old Faithful geyser. Additionally, the park is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including 7 ungulates, 2 bears, 67 other mammals, 322 birds, 18 fish, and the transboundary gray wolf.
There are more than 1100 kinds of native plants, more than 200 kinds of exotic plants, and more than 400 kinds of thermophilic microorganisms.
Yellowstone National Park is proudly called "the most unique magical paradise on earth" by Americans. The transportation in the park is convenient, the road around the mountain is more than 500 kilometers long, connecting the main scenic spots of each scenic spot together, and the hiking path is more than 1,500 kilometers.