October 7, 2022
Our first stop of the day is the Craig Thomas Visitor Center. We watched a short video on the Grand Tetons. The visitor center was also constructed with large windows facing the mountains. A really cool feature was on the floor they had metal strips that had the name of the mountain and the elevation engraved on it and the strips pointed to that particular mountain. We scoped out our plan. Today we would travel north and stop at a couple of the exterior sites and then travel up to the north entrance to the park and work our way south.
The first stop is Cunningham Cabin. Most of the stops you take short trails to the site itself. This was about a .3 mile walk Not bad. The next stop is the Chapel of the Sacred Heart. It was closed but we did a drive by to get a couple of pictures. Then we started our south bound journey. First stop on our interior trip is Signal Mountain Lookout. We also packed our lunch so our view from atop Signal Mountain Lookout was spectacular while we ate. From there we traveled to see the Cathedral Group and the Teton Fault. We next visited the scenic Jenny Lake. Very peaceful to sit and look out over the water and see the mountains. The weather was ideal and a slight breeze was blowing. An ideal spot to relax in a hammock for hours. AAHHH!!
We proceeded to check out Mormon Historic Row. We couldn’t stop because it appeared that there was a wedding going on or at least wedding photos. As it was getting close to sunset we headed to Snake River Overlook to get pictures of the sunset. Once the sun set, we headed home. We had checked off most of our items of interest today. Not a whole lot for tomorrow.
