Mail Carrier’s Cabin

The origins of the building at the edge of Fort Yellowstone that became known as the mail carrier’s house are a matter of debate, but it is significant as the only 1800s log structure still standing in Mammoth Hot Springs. ...

Dude Ranches: JY Ranch, Bar BC, and Whitegrass Dude Ranch

The first homesteaders moved into the Jackson Hole valley in the 1880s. Many of these settlers quickly realized that the valley was poorly suited to raising crops and livestock. At the same time, wealthy Easterners wanted to enjoy the western ...

Murie Ranch

During the 1920s and 1930s the Murie brothers achieved national prominence as influential scientists within the federal government, including the National Park Service. Their rigorous biological research at the ranch distinguished them as proponents of an ecological view that emphasized ...

Jackson Lake Lodge

In 1950, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. called on architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood to design the Jackson Lake Lodge. This building marked the transition in the National Park System from rustic to modern design. Underwood revolutionized park architecture by combining modern ...

Cunningham Cabin

The Cunningham Ranch affair broke with a suddenness that shocked the entire valley. It was as cold-blooded as it was simple. A posse came riding in from Montana in the spring of 1893, and at a little cabin near Spread ...

Colter Bay Visitor Center

After 40 years, the artifacts from the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum are undergoing conservation treatment. The remodeled facility at the Colter Bay Visitor Center proudly displays 35 artifacts from the David T. Vernon Indian Arts Collection.

The Colter Stone, discovered ...

Jackson Hole

Nomadic paleo-Indians first entered the Jackson Hole valley shortly after Pleistocene Ice Age glaciers retreated. They left behind tipi rings, fire pits and stone tools. Summers were a time of abundance, and modern-day Indian tribes came to harvest bulbs and ...

UNESCO World Heritage Site- Historic Centre of Riga

Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deriving its prosperity in the 13th–15th centuries from the trade with central and eastern Europe. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects this prosperity, though most of the earliest buildings ...

Visitor Center

The monument was established in 1972 to protect and preserve a portion of the Green River and Wasatch formations which contain a unique fossilized assemblage of organisms that once lived in or around Fossil Lake, an ancient lake of ...

David’s Cabin

Some of the first fossil fish from the Green River Formation were collected by geologist Dr. John Evans in 1856 and described scientifically by Joseph Leidy. Not all early collectors were scientists; Union Pacific Railroad workers discovered the "Petrified ...