On Holiday ...: Yellowstone - Grand Teton National Park

Painted Buffalo Inn

Head south into magnificent GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, one of America’s last preserves of wild solitude. Its 13,770-foot-high ridges are crested with snow most of the year. Stroll along the shores of beautiful glacier-fed Jenny Lake before ending the day in the Wild West town of Jackson with its wooden sidewalks and swing-door saloons. This evening, join an optional barbecue cookout and Wild West show.
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These photos were taken at 7 a.m. in the morning [Tuesday, 2 September] very frosty but beautiful clear morning

Yellowstone Lake

Left Lake Yellowstone at 8 a.m. cold and sunny not a cloud in the sky drove passed Lewis Lake and into the Grand Teton Park. It was brought by John D Rockfellow and gifted to the National Parks.

Margaret and Bill at Yellowstone Lake

We drove along the Snake River to the Jackson Lake which was completely empted to provide Idaho farmers with irrigation during a drought.

Snake River

The Snake River twists and turns as it flows over 1,000 miles from Yellowstone National Park through Grand Teton National Park and ultimately to the Pacific Ocean. From Jackson Hole the Snake turns west into Idaho and ventually joins the Columbia River, which flows into the Pacific. The designate Wild and Scenic River attracts River Otters, Bold Eagles, Osprey Moose - and Human Anglers and Rafters.
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Stopped at Colter Bay

Colter Bay

Margaret at Colter Bay

The Teton Mountains had some snow and looked like the Remarkables in Queenstown. Stopped at several photo stops.

Jackson Lake and Mountains

Jackson Lake

Lovely lunch stop at Jackson Lake and extra good photos of Teton mountains in the back ground with Jackson lake.

The roads were very flat today and unusual fences.

Fences

The fields had a lot of sage bush in them. We noticed that Bison's liked to lay amongst this.

There were a lot of deciduous trees and these were turning golden yellow.

We stopped at a church on the way to Jackson.