GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK             

      Grand Teton National Park has a beautiful mountain range.It is complete with four places for people to stay at   six restaurants . It is really close to Yellowstone National Park so you could visit both if you want to.It is located right by Jackson Wyoming. Grand Teton has awesome forests with tons of animals birds, bears,bugs all sorts of stuff. The mountains climb up about ten thousand feet into the sky.      Grand Teton was established Feb/sixth/1929.The eastern face of the mountains was formed about 3 billion years ago. in 1950 congress enlarged the size of the park from35,000 acres to 310,000 acres. It snows about 191 in. in a year and rains about 10 in. in a average year.                                                 

     The nature in the park is outstanding with more than 900 species of flowering plants.7 species of coniferous trees.3 species of rabbits/hares.22 species of rodents.6 species of bats.4 species of non poisonous reptiles.5 species of amphibians.16 species of fishes.300+ species of birds.6 species of hoofed animals.17 species of carnivores. and many gold eagles.

     Grand Teton was made a park by congress in 1929. They did not have much land so congress enlarged it to its present size of 310,000 acres   It doesn't show  that the park face many challenges but people trying to build more buildings in the land of the park and people abusing the park. So if you go there you should

treat the park good.So don't litter or throw stuff on the ground.    Since the park is so close to Yellowstone it shares many of the same characteristics of the park . Allot of snow and very very very beautiful scenes, and nature. Just a couple more things .Don't forget you camera and take the whole family because this park is a great fun place for kids and adults. just remember t o stay a good distance away from animals and non designated swimming water.        

  written by Jacob Konczal