Wyoming public health agencies are conducting rabies risk assessments after a bat colony was discovered inside a lodge in ...

Powell and dozens of other economists and policymakers from the U.S. and abroad could have a run-in with bats as they meet in ...

The National Park Service says that, since June 2, the Grand Teton Lodge Company has received eight reports involving overnight guests who may have been exposed to bats in Jackson Lake Lodge rooms. As ...

A colony of bats recently took up residence at the storied Jackson Lake Lodge, where central bankers and economic ...

Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed ...

An iconic peak at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is being renamed, and an Ogden, Utah, man's 'aspirational' idea for a ...

Officials believe at least 200 people may have been exposed to rabies while visiting a hotel in Grand Teton National Park.

The highest of the peaks, Grand Teton, rises to height of 13,770 feet. The peak was given the name Grand Teton, or "large breast" in French, by Iroquois or French-Canadians settlers.

Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming is one of them. Its namesake peak, Grand Teton, towers at 13,775 feet tall, while others in the Teton Range top 12,000 feet, according to the park.

At 13,775 feet, Grand Teton is not the highest mountain in the state of Wyoming. It offers less fall-line skiing than other mountains in the same range.

I grew up in southeast Idaho on the west side of the Tetons. Grand Teton National Park was less than a two-hour drive from my home but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been there.