Before my husband and I headed for a few days to the backside of Grand Teton National Park, his supervisor advised enthusiastically, “You have to stop and see the old abandoned settlement!” He gave us the GPS coordinates, since it was, indeed, off the beaten path.
After driving three hours through Yellowstone and then through most of Grand Teton, all the way to the southeast corner of the latter’s park, we turned on to the non-descript Antelope Flats Road in a seemingly uninhabitable distant shadow of the 13,775-elevation mountain peak.
Arising out of a vast plain are remnants of Grovont homesteaders’ structures. The preserved living history site is maintained by the National Park Service, which describes the area as a “sloping sheltered cove formed by Blacktail Butte and the Gros Ventre Mountains”—hence the official U.S. Postal Service-given name of Grovont. The area is close to what is now Moose, Wyoming….