Grand Teton National Park Travel Guide

The primary entries to Grand Teton are through Montana and Wyoming, so if you want information about the surrounding areas, contact these states' travel services: Travel Montana, 301 S. Park Ave. (P.O. Box 200533), Helena, MT 59601 (tel. 800/847-4868 or 406/841-2870; TDD 406/841-7202; www.visitmt.com); and the Wyoming Business Council Tourism Division, I-25 at College Drive, Cheyenne, WY 82002 (tel. 800/225-5996 or 307/777-7777; TDD 307/344-2386; www.wyomingtourism.org).

To receive park maps and information before your arrival, contact Grand Teton National Park, P.O. Drawer 170, Moose, WY 83012 (tel. 307/739-3300; TDD 307/739-3400; www.nps.gov/grte).

Lodging information is available from park concessionaires: Grand Teton Lodge Company, P.O. Box 250, Moran, WY 83013 (tel. 800/628-9988 or 307/543-2811; www.gtlc.com), and Signal Mountain Lodge Co., P.O. Box 50, Moran, WY 83013 (tel. 307/543-2831; www.signalmountainlodge.com); just north of the park is Flagg Ranch Village, Box 187, Moran, WY 83013 (tel. 800/443-2311 or 307/543-2861; www.flaggranch.com).

Educational and field trips are offered by the Teton Science Schools, 700 Coyote Canyon Rd., Jackson, WY 83001 (tel. 307/733-1313; www.tetonscience.org). The school's Wildlife Expeditions (tel. 888/945-3567 or 307/773-2623; www.wildlifeexpeditions.org) offers tours that bring visitors closer to the park's wildlife.

The Grand Teton Association is a not-for-profit organization that provides information about the park through retail book sales at park visitor centers; you can also buy books about the park from the organization by mail. Contact the association at P.O. Box 170, Moose, WY 83012 (tel. 307/739-3403; www.grandtetonpark.org).

National forests and other public lands surround the parks. For information about national forests and wilderness areas in Montana, as well as Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, contact the U.S. Forest Service Intermountain Region Office, 324 25th St., Ogden, UT 84401 (tel. 801/625-5306; www.fs.fed.us/r4). The rest of Wyoming's forests, including the Shoshone National Forest east of the Tetons over Togwotee Pass, are covered by the Rocky Mountain Region Office, 740 Simms St., Golden, CO 80401 (tel. 303/275-5350; TDD 303/275-5367; www.fs.fed.us/r2).

The federal Bureau of Land Management also manages millions of acres of recreational lands and can be reached at its Wyoming state office, 5353 Yellowstone Rd. (P.O. Box 1828), Cheyenne, WY 82009 (tel. 307/775-6256; www.blm.gov/wy); or its Montana state office, 5001 Southgate Dr., Billings, MT 59101 (tel. 406/896-5000; www.blm.gov/mt).

General Tourist Information -- Other sources of information include Yellowstone Country, 1820 W. Lincoln St., Bozeman, MT 59715 (tel. 800/736-5276 or 406/556-8680; www.yellowstonecountry.net); Gardiner Chamber of Commerce, 222 Park St. (P.O. Box 81), Gardiner, MT 59030 (tel. 406/848-7971; www.gardinerchamber.com); Cooke City/Colter Pass/Silver Gate Chamber of Commerce, 205 Main St. (P.O. Box 1071), Cooke City, MT 59020 (tel. 406/838-2495; www.cookecitychamber.org); West Yellowstone Chamber of Commerce, 30 Yellowstone Ave. (P.O. Box 458), West Yellowstone, MT 59758 (tel. 406/646-7701; www.westyellowstonechamber.com); Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, 990 W. Broadway (P.O. Box 550), Jackson, WY 83001 (tel. 307/733-3316; www.jacksonholechamber.com); Jackson Hole Central Reservations (tel. 800/443-6931); Cody Country Chamber of Commerce, 836 Sheridan Ave., Cody, WY 82414 (tel. 307/587-2777; www.codychamber.org); and the Buffalo Bill's Cody/Yellowstone Country, P.O. Box 2454, Cody, WY 82414 (tel. 800/393-2639 or 307/587-2297; www.pctc.org).

Recommended Reading

The following books are interesting, informative, and easy to find: Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion, by George Wuerthner, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; The Yellowstone Story (two volumes), by Aubrey Haines, Colorado Associated University Press; Searching for Yellowstone, by Paul Schullery, Mariner Books, New York; Yellowstone Trails: A Hiking Guide, by Mark C. Marschall, Yellowstone Association, Yellowstone National Park; Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton, by Andrew Dean Nystrom, Wilderness Press, Berkeley, California; Death in Yellowstone, by Lee Whittlesey, Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Boulder, Colorado; Grand Teton National Park, available from the Grand Teton Natural History Association; A Guide to Exploring Grand Teton National Park, by Linda L. Olson and Tim Bywater, RNM Press, Salt Lake City, Utah; Crucible for Conservation, by Robert Righter, Grand Teton Natural History Association, Moose, Wyoming; and Teton Trails: A Guide to the Trails of Grand Teton National Park, by Katy Duffy and Darwin Wile, Grand Teton Natural History Association. Falcon Press (Helena, Montana) also publishes a long list of hiking, fishing, climbing, and other guides to the Yellowstone/Grand Teton region.

If you cannot find these publications in your local bookstore, many can be ordered from either the Yellowstone Association (tel. 307/344-2293; www.yellowstoneassociation.org) or the Grand Teton Association (tel. 307/739-3403; www.grandtetonpark.org).