Our fourth day on the Gusinsky family vacation was spent driving around The Grand Tetons national park, but not before a fantastic breakfast of Spanish egg, ham, spuds and fruit prepared by the Sassy Moose B&B owner Craig. We started out by driving the back road into the park. Part of it is unpaved but it was better than some of the roads I take when going steelheading or when we go camping back in the mountains.
The sites were beautiful. The streams and landscapes with the aspen trees and sage brush mixed in, fantastic!As we traveled along at elevations of upwards of 6200 feet, we stopped at pullout to view the mountains. These mountains are bit different than the ones at home due to the fact they are kinda small. When I say small I mean small in diameter. Grand Tetons national park is generally at the 6000 foot level for the driving portion and the peaks rise into the sky from there.

We didn’t see a lot of wildlife. Some elk, bison and squirrels including the 3 that live under the hot tub deck. Hoping to see some more in the coming days. Nik also has been working on his workbook to get his Junior National Park Ranger badge for The Grand Tetons. Got a lil rain before we got back to our home base at The Sassy Moose.

For supper we went down the road to a place called the Bar J. It is a cattle ranch that  has a dinner and a show in a very large hall on the ranch. Now this place was a highlight. You pick out a meal of chicken, sliced beef, pork ribs or rib eye steak ranging from $20-$30. You get all the fixins including baked potato, beans, chunky apple sauce, corn bread and spicey cake and to drink you get coffee or lemonade. The mel is to mirror a chuck wagon meal back in the day the best they can when cooking for 750 people. Included in the price is a show where these cowboys get up on stage and sing western songs and throw in some comedy. I have to say, it was worth every penny and the steak wasn’t to bad. Not as good as mine but i ain’t cookin for 700 plus folks either.

They also have a wagonette you can get a ride on and get a bit of a history lesson plus they have a real chuck wagon set up where they are cooking biscuits in a Dutch oven. I suggest anyone that is in that part of the world to look this place up. Good food, good entertainment and the people are really happy you are there. Good times. After supper we sat in the hot tub in the shadow of Grand Teton, even got a few sprinkles on us which is kinda fun in a hot tub.

To see some pictures of this day of ours in the park and the Bar J, click on Grand Tetons/Yellowstone Day 4 - Grand Tetons to the left on the home page under photosets.