Grand Teton from Snake River Overlook (Ansel Adams view)
— — the photograph the trees have been slowly closing.
Not only on a wall.
“Ansel Adams stopped here in 1942 and made the photograph that put the Tetons in the national mind — the river bending through the valley, the range standing clean behind it. The pull-off is still there, on the highway between Moose and Moran. The composition has shifted. The cottonwoods and spruce along the Snake have grown up over eighty years, and the bend of the river is half-hidden now where it used to read in full. The range above does not change. People still pull off in the morning and try to find the frame. — from the studio
Grand Teton from Snake River Overlook (Ansel Adams view), on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Snake River Overlook is a roadside pull-off on U.S. Highway 89/191 inside Grand Teton National Park, between the towns of Moose and Moran, Wyoming. It looks west across the valley to the Teton Range, with the Grand Teton at 13,775 feet, Mount Owen, and Teewinot rising directly from the valley floor. Ansel Adams photographed the view in 1942 for the Department of the Interior; the image, titled The Tetons and the Snake River, later flew aboard the Voyager Golden Record in 1977 as one of 116 images representing Earth. The overlook elevation is roughly 6,790 feet.
Adams made the original negative in 1942 while on contract to the Department of the Interior to photograph the national parks. In the original image the bend of the Snake reads clean and silver through an open foreground. In the eighty-plus years since, the cottonwoods and spruce along the river have grown tall enough to obscure the lower river from the original sightline, a shift documented by NPS and many returning photographers. The view is therefore historical as well as visual; standing here is partly an act of overlaying a remembered photograph onto a living landscape.
The overlook is on the east side of U.S. Highway 89/191, well signed, with a paved pull-off and a low stone wall along the rim. There is no trail; the view is from the wall. The pull-off is plowed in winter and the view stays open year-round, though the Tetons are most often clear in early morning before valley wind brings up haze. Grand Teton National Park charges $35 for a 7-day vehicle pass as of the 2026 season. The drive from Jackson is about 25 miles north.