Scenic pullout · Grand Teton National Park
See the forest patchwork left by the 1988 Huck Fire.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Grand Teton Tour Guide
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Grand Teton National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Huck Fire Turnout: The 1988 Spark“Huck Fire Turnout is ahead, where a short stop explains one of the nineteen eighty-eight fires.”
Plays as you drive up to Huck Fire Turnout in the Parkwolf Grand Teton Tour Guide.
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“…We have been driving around with the audio tour and it has been informational and spot on. The whole family has been impressed. We used it for Yellowstone and Grand Teton.”
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Huck Fire Turnout is a roadside interpretive stop in the north end of Grand Teton, focused on the 1988 fire and the forest it left behind. Look for younger lodgepole pines and subalpine fir mixed among taller, older trees, with standing and fallen deadwood still part of the view. The stop is listed as wheelchair accessible, though route and surface details aren't given.
On August 20, 1988—Black Saturday—gale-force winds blew a tree into power lines and sparked the Huck Fire. It was named for nearby Huckleberry Mountain; the fire burned 119,000 acres, starting in Grand Teton and spreading east into Bridger-Teton National Forest.
Indigenous people in the Northern Rockies deliberately burned landscapes for millennia to clear undergrowth, support hunting and wildlife habitat, reduce fire risk and encourage food plants such as huckleberries. That stewardship is a separate chapter from the power-line spark of 1988, but it puts this forest's changing pattern in a longer story.
Wildlife
172 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
195 sightingsBrown BearMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
32 sightingsGray WolfMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
1,816 sightingsMooseMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
614 sightingsBisonMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
738 sightingsElkMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Grand Teton. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
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ModerateGlade Creek Trail7 mi · 3.5 hr · 3.1 mi awayMeadow birds and a creek crossing reward this remote walk.
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EasyFlagg Canyon Trail5 mi · 2.5 hr · 3.9 mi awayEasy 5-mile out-and-back along the Snake River's basalt canyon.
EasyPolecat Creek Loop2.5 mi · 1.8 hr · 4.1 mi awayAn easy loop for creek-side wetlands and forest regrowth.
ChallengingOwl Creek Trail7.4 mi · 7.5 hr · 4.7 mi awayA remote canyon route ending at a rocky alpine divide.
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Sight · 3.5 mi awayFlagg Ranch Boat LaunchA simple ramp for putting a small boat on the upper Snake.
Picnic area · 3.6 mi awayMud Flats Picnic AreaOne table, a Teton view, and a changing Jackson Lake shoreline.
Campground · 3.8 mi awayHeadwaters Campground & RV ParkFull-hookup RV sites and basic cabins between two parks.
Lodging · 3.9 mi awayHeadwaters Lodge & Cabins at Flagg RanchA remote cabin base for splitting time between two parks.Parkwolf’s Grand Teton ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
