Jenny Lake Ranger Station

In the 1930s, the park’s first ranger station and museum opened in a rustic cabin. The cabin was originally Lee Manges’ homestead cabin and was transported to the south shore of Jenny Lake from near today’s Windy Point Turnout. This ...

Snake River

The fish species present in Grand Teton National Park vary widely in shape, size and behavior. The mountain sucker feeds on algae. The cutthroat trout, named for the red slash under the lower jaw, feeds mainly on insects and smaller ...

Menors Ferry

Menor's Ferry once belonged to William D. Menor who came to Jackson Hole in 1894, taking up a homestead beside the Snake River. Here he constructed a ferryboat that became a vital crossing for the early settlers of Jackson Hole ...

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 ...

West Green River Herd

The West Green River Elk herd is regionally significant because it is one of the few herds in Wyoming that does not receive supplemental winter feed and is free of brucellosis. The State of Wyoming manages this herd by ...

Birds of the Aspen and Sagebrush

Diverse plant communities provide food, shelter and nesting sites for the 93 species of birds observed in Fossil Butte National Monument.

Commonly seen birds include: golden eagle, red-tailed hawk, northern harrier, black-billed magpie, common raven, gray jay, green-tailed towhee, ...

Animals at Chicken Creek

There is no resident fish population in the monument. Occasionally, when Chicken Creek flows, one or two species may briefly enter the monument from downstream sources.

In 2003, the National Park Service and Wyoming Game and Fish Department conducted ...

Main Body (Wasatch Formation)

This unit of the Wasatch Formation is that part of the formation which produces the

spectacular red-colored badlands in Fossil Butte National Monument. Particularly typical exposures can be seen in the south facing scarp of Fossil Butte where the ...

Wasatch Formation

The sediments that make up the Wasatch Formation in the Fossil Basin were deposited mainly by streams flowing into the basin from the surrounding uplands. Rock types are variable and for the most part individual types cannot be traced ...