Jackson Lake Ranger Station

Infobox_nrhp | name =Jackson Lake Ranger Station
nrhp_type =


caption =
nearest_city= Moose, Wyoming
lat_degrees = 43
lat_minutes = 52
lat_seconds = 18
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 110
long_minutes = 34
long_seconds = 14
long_direction = W
locmapin = Wyoming
area =
architect= U.S. Forest Service
architecture= Other
added = April 23, 1990cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = National Park Service
mpsub=Grand Teton National Park MPS
refnum=90000620

The Jackson Lake Ranger Station is the last Depression-era U.S. Forest Service ranger station in its original location in Grand Teton National Park. When firt established, the park comprised only the mountainous terrain above Jackson Hole, while the remainder of what would eventually become the park was administered by the Forest Service as part of Teton National Forest. The Jackson Lake Station was built in 1933 as close as possible to Park Service property as possible as a kind of resistance to the park's expansion. The station was one of five Forest Service stations in the area, and was taken over by the National Park Service when Jackson Hole National Monument was established in 1943, later becoming an enlarged Grand Teton National Park. It is the only such station not to have been moved or altered by the Park Service. [cite web|url=http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/NationalRegister/site.asp|date=2008-08-12|work=National Register of Historic Places|title=Jackson Lake Ranger Station|publisher=Wyoming State Preservation Office]

The building is a log structure in the National Park Service Rustic style used by both the Park Service and Forest Service for buildings of the era.

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