Yesterday the DrsC took a lazy (and hazy from smoke) drive through Jackson to the Tetons. Even though the calendar says it is still summer until Tuesday morning, the fall colors were really something special. The aspens are turning gold and the Rocky Mountain maples are a beautiful red.
We ate a picnic lunch looking across the lake at Mount Moran. Jackson Lake is basically the headwaters of the South Fork of the Snake River.
The park is still relatively busy for so late in the season, most in-park services will shut down on the 27th. See pretty photos of autumn in the Rockies at the other DrC's blog, CruzTalking Two.
Later ... My bad, Jackson Lake is not the headwaters of the South Fork of the Snake River, I looked it up. The actual headwaters are farther north in the south end of Yellowstone National Park. The Snake flows through Jackson Lake and continues south in WY to Alpine where it merges with the Grey’s and Salt rivers and then turns west into Idaho.
