The White Grass Ranger Station includes several structures in the backcountry of Grand Teton National Park that were established to support horse patrols by park rangers. Built in 1930, White Grass is the only surviving horse patrol station in the park. The station, which includes a cabin, several sheds and a corral, was built to a standardized

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plan, in the

National Park Service rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create buildings ...

style. The White Grass station was built immediately after the establishment of Grand Teton National Park in 1929, and was one of the first structures built by the

to establish a park service presence in the area. Other patrol cabins existed in the park, but these were inherited from the

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, which administered

Teton National Forest Teton National Forest was first established by the General Land Office on February 22, 1897 as the Teton Forest Reserve with . A commission was established in 1896 to plan for a system of national forest reserves, recommending an expansion of the t ...

, from which the park was created. The ranger station's exterior remains essentially the same as the original construction, but the interior has been altered several times and does not retain historical significance. The White Grass station stands at the western edge of the White Grass district of Grand Teton, southwest of

Moose, Wyoming Moose is an unincorporated community in Teton County, Wyoming, in the Jackson Hole valley. It has a US Post Office, with the zip code of 83012. The town is located within Grand Teton National Park along the banks of the Snake River. It is populat ...

. The station is sited in a small clearing in the trees, with a buffer of vegetation between it and a nearby parking lot. The White Grass Ranger Station was placed on the

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on April 23, 1990.

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* at the National Park Service's NRHP database
White Grass Ranger Station Historic District
at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office {{NRHP in Teton County, Wyoming National Park Service rustic in Wyoming Buildings and structures in Grand Teton National Park Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming National Park Service ranger stations Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming National Register of Historic Places in Grand Teton National Park

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