Grand Teton National Park. The Grand Teton Mountains are the youngest mountain range in North America. They are also the most rugged and most beautiful mountains in the USA. This tiny offshoot of the Rocky Mountain Cordillera is but 80 miles (130 km) long and less than half as wide. The Grand Teton range forms the western rim of a large upland plain surrounded by mountains known as Jackson Hole. Their jagged peaks rise almost vertically for about 4,000 feet (1250 m) above the 12-mile (20 km) wide valley of Jackson Hole. Several large lakes lie at the base of the mountains providing wonderful reflective pools. This makes the views of the Grand Teton spectacular and very photogenic.
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