Grand Teton

National Park · Wyoming

Park Stats

Area310,000 acres

Grand Teton4,199 m

Vertical reliefover 2,100 m

Range age~13 million yr

Established1929

DEMUSGS 3DEP 10m

Notable Features

Grand Teton4,199 m
Mt. Owen3,940 m
Teewinot3,737 m
Jenny Lake2,072 m
Snake River2,005 m

Layer

Colored Hillshade

Elevation

Hillshade

Opacity 100%

About

The Tetons are unusual in two ways: they're one of the youngest mountain ranges in the Rockies (~13 million years vs ~70 for the Front Range), and they have no foothills — the Teton Fault thrust them straight up from Jackson Hole, so the relief from valley floor to summit is 2,100 m over just 5 km horizontally. The granite, schist, and gneiss exposed at the summit are some of the oldest rocks on the continent (Archean basement, ~2.7 billion years).

10 m colormap + 10 m hillshade NW @ 45° · sources at /data