Tetons Park and the Rockefellers are tightly intertwined. This Preserve was supposedly the family’s retreat and was the last bit of land given to the park. It is a quiet little lake, Phelps Lake, and the surrounding ridges. It was a very pretty walk along the lakeshore through big pines. As we neared the end of the walk, just as I was bemoaning not seeing any wildlife, a snake slithered right under my feet. I have no idea what kind it was. They all make me dance! On the drive back to camp we saw the bison and elk again and a pair of sand hill cranes. They apparently stage here to migrate and the first of them are just now beginning to arrive.
Checked out the animated geology exhibit at the visitor center. It is a time lapse ( a couple hundred million years in one minute) computer generated image of the plate tectonics and fault line activity that formed this range. It was pretty cool. They didn’t incorporate the Yellowstone “Hot Spot” theory though.