Grand Teton National Park is located in northwestern Wyoming. It boasts spectacular landscape rich with majestic mountains, pristine lakes and extraordinary wildlife.
The centerpiece of the park is the majestic mountains of the Grand Teton Range.
The characteristic which makes them so memorable is their abrupt rise, without intervening foothills, to altitudes 7,500 feet above the floor of the valley.
The Teton Range is about 40 miles long and 15 miles wide. The name for the range originated from trappers from the Hudson Bay Company who called the major peaks (the South, Middle, and Grand Teton) "Les Trois Tetons", or The Three Breasts, as they believed the mountains resembled that part of a woman's anatomy.
The Tetons are formed of granite. The rock is therefore very hard and not prone to slides.