Moran Entrance Station

Moran Entrance Gate with Visitors

Quick Facts

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Aquatic Invasive Species Inspection, Entrance Passes For Sale, Information

Located a quarter mile north of Moran Junction on US 89/191/287, this entrance gate provides access to northern Grand Teton National Park and on north to Yellowstone. Visitors traveling north from Jackson may not realize that they have entered the park because they haven't passed through a gate. There is no fee to travel on US 26/89/191 through the park and east toward Dubois, WY.

Past the gate, visitors traverse sagebrush meadows and open lodgepole forests approaching Jackson Lake. A popular spot for wildlife viewing and incredible views of Mount Moran, Oxbow Bend, is two and a half miles west of the gate.

Visitor Services

Rangers staff the entrance gate providing visitor information and selling entrance permits. The gate also posts campground availability and fee information. When no one is present, you may pick up a park newspaper (including a map) in front of the Colter Bay Visitor Center. The gate is not staffed from November 1 through mid-December, but you may access the park.

Name Origin

Landscape artist Thomas Moran accompanied the 1872 Hayden expedition into Yellowstone. Moran produced many sketches and watercolors introducing the Greater Yellowstone area to Easterners. He visited the west side of the Teton Range, but never saw the mountain named for him.