— — a wall of mountain that starts where your feet are.
“No foothills. The Tetons rise straight out of the valley floor, almost seven thousand feet of granite without an apron. Grand Teton tops the line at 13,775 feet; the sagebrush flats below sit a little under seven thousand. Most ranges introduce themselves gradually. This one doesn't.
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The Teton Range runs about forty miles along the western edge of Jackson Hole, a glacial valley in northwest Wyoming. Grand Teton, the highest summit, reaches 13,775 feet; the Cathedral Group beside it includes Mount Owen, Teewinot, and Middle and South Teton. Unlike most ranges, the Tetons have no foothills. The Teton Fault drops the valley straight down and lifts the peaks straight up, so they rise close to seven thousand feet in a single line of sight from the sagebrush at Mormon Row.
Photographers come for two windows. Just before sunrise, the east faces of the Cathedral Group catch the first light while the valley below stays cold and blue; the contrast is sharpest at Oxbow Bend on the Snake River and at Schwabacher Landing. The second window is the half hour after sunset, when the snowfields hold pink long after the sage has gone grey. Mormon Row's old barns sit roughly five miles east of the range, foreground for the line.
Grand Teton National Park covers about 310,000 acres and stays open through the year, though the interior Teton Park Road closes to vehicles from early November to early May. Most visitors enter from Jackson, twelve miles south, or from Yellowstone via the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway. A single entrance pass is honored in both parks for seven days. Jenny Lake, Colter Bay, and Signal Mountain hold the main developed areas; backcountry permits route through the Craig Thomas Visitor Center.