Jenny Lake Day Trip

I saw some post hiking around the lake. It looked cool to me but my children were not wanting to hike around it. I kind of ruined hiking with the last long hike and huckleberry picking in the forest. So we decided that we would only hike a mile but take a ferry across the lake to the Hidden Falls. It was only half a mile up and half a mile back. You can go another half mile to the Inspiration Point but we chose not to do it.
 First, you have to pay $25 to get into the park which lasts 7 days. Where is the 3 hour pass? I did ask. Then to walk around the lake is free but if you want to take the ferry. It is 15 for each adult and 9 for each child round trip.Not too bad if you did not take a huge vacation this summer. I would do this again in a heartbeat. I love it up there.

It was cloudy and sprinkling. However, the clouds moved over so I could take a picture of the Tetons.
 The kids loved the ferry boat ride. They loved watching the waves that the boat was making.

 They say that you can only see the Grand Teton in the back if you take the ferry boat. I have no idea what the mountains are called and whether we saw it or not. 




 I am just going to say that I could not keep my eyes off of all of the huckleberry bushes that we were passing. I will not admit if my children were eating from the fully laden bushes since it is a national park. Eating the bears' berries are kind of forbidden. :)

 The kids and Clayton did not even notice the falls until we went to the viewpoint. It was beautiful.

 Here is the boat ride back. They have a cute money maker gift shop and a visitor's center to hang around in.
On the way out of the Grand Teton Park, I had to pull over and take this awesome picture. It is so pretty. Then we took the back road to Teton Village at 25 miles an hour for 9 miles. And here we thought we were so smart to miss all the Saturday Jackson traffic.



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