South of the Tetons; Trails; Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve Trailheads - has many iles of trails going all the way up into Yellowstone, popular trails include; Lake Creek-Woodland Trail Loop - 3.0 miles round-trip Aspen Ridge-Boulder Ridge Loop - 5.8 to 6.2 miles round-trip Phelps Lake Loop - 6.4 miles round-trip Viewpoints; Gray Barn - The barn sits on the Snake River Ranch, a massive working cattle ranch that successfully fought off a massive golf course development in

With a lack of foothills in the park it looks like the peaks shoot 7,000 feet right out of the valley, but they’re further than they look. The name comes from 19th century French fur trappers who called them "les trois tétons" (meaning "the three breasts" or "teats") because of the three sections of the mountains. Before that the Shoshone people called it "Teewinot" which translates to "many pinnacles". Calling the area the Grand Tetons was normalized by mapmakers later.

Famous for its limestone cascades filled with boiling water, mammoth is one of the first places to be discovered in Yellowstone. The village was named for the sheer size of the terraces. Before the National Park Service took over, the U.S. Army managed the park. They built a base called Fort Yellowstone in 1891. Many of these original army buildings, like the guardhouse and officer homes, still stand today.

The southernmost lodging area in the park, built in 1984, and named after the man who signed Yellowstone into the first National Park in 1872, President U.S. Grant. The Grant Visitor Center is famous for its special exhibits. It teaches visitors all about the devastating 1988 Yellowstone fires and how nature heals itself. Grant Village was nearly burnt to the ground in that fire.

The Lake hotel opened in 1891, now the oldest standing hotel in any national park. Yellowstone lake is a great example of underwater thermal features, as the bottom of the lake has many springs, geysers, and vents, as well as all along the shoreline. The lake holds over 847 billion cubic feet of water. It freezes up to 25 inches thick in the winter. It’s massive. Yellowstone Lake is the largest high-elevation lake (7,733 feet above sea level) in North America

The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone is one of the most famous spots in the park, it’s about 1,200 feet deep, 4,000 feet wide, and 20 miles long. The colors of the rock walls are the result of ancient geysers "cooking" the minerals, mostly iron, in the stone. At only about 10,000 years old it’s considered an extremely young baby canyon. It is twice the height of Niagara Falls, and one of the tallest you can drive to in the park.

The most famous sight in the park, Old Faithful. Located on the southern side of the park, closer to the Teton area, this whole area is named after the geyser. The historic Inn was built in 1903, it’s one of the largest log structures in the world. The geyser was used as a washing machine by early settlers, but it would dissolve anything but cotton clothes.