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Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park is located in the northwestern corner of Wyoming, just south of Yellowstone National Park. The park was established February 26, 1929, and is named after Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range. Teton Park is comprised of nearly 310,000 acres, and sees more nearly four million visitors each year.
Almost 200 miles of hiking trails run throughout Teton Park. Other activities available include boating, fishing, biking, and snowmobiling. The park's five campgrounds run mostly on a first come, first served basis. One campground, Jenny Lake, is for tents only. The others can accommodate tents and camping vehicles, but there are not utility hookups. Instead, the campgrounds offer comfort stations with showers, and even laundry facilities. Camping requires a permit, and reservations are encouraged for groups of ten or more people.
Grand Teton Park is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which is one of the largest temperate zone ecosystems still intact in the world. Many of the animal inhabitants travel between Grand Teton and Yellowstone, as well as the nearby national forests.
Nearly 400 species of mammals, amphibians, fish, rodents, invertebrates, birds, and several other types of animals live in the park. Over 300 of those species are birds alone, including the osprey, trumpeter swan, calliope hummingbird, golden eagle, and the bald eagle.
You can learn more about Grand Teton National Park by visting the official website here.
The state bird of Wyoming is the Western Meadowlark and you can find a checklist of birds to watch for while visting Wyoming here.
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