Cattleman's Bridge Historical

Cattleman's Bridge Historical (HM1T84)

Location: Moran, WY 83013 Teton County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 51.37', W 110° 33.202'

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A long, narrow bridge made of wood planks once stretched across the Snake River at this point, and that bridge connected the present with the past.

Before modern Grand Teton National Park was created in 1950, many local people had fought proposals to expand the small national park established in 1929. Fearing the loss of grazing rights to public land, ranchers in particular had resisted the creation of the larger park.

A small number of ranchers grazed their cattle west of the Snake River in the area of the Potholes, south of Signal Mountain, moving them to summer range east of the river, crossing on the dam at Jackson Lake near the town of Moran, now removed but then located just west of here. When the new, larger national park was created in 1950, two things happened. One was that, unlike other national parks, grazing was permitted during the life of the ranchers at the time. The other was that the new park received more visitors. Herding cattle across the dam became problematic so the National Park Service and the ranchers agreed to find an alternate place to cross the river, and this was the location.

In the middle 1950s "Cattleman's Bridge" was constructed, but not long afterwards, the Potholes ceased to be used for grazing. So the bridge was used for cattle drives only a short while. The bridge remained, however,
and was used in the following decades by people hiking or fishing. In 1962, the bridge even appeared in one scene of the movie "Spencer's Mountain".

The bridge was finally taken down in 2001 after it had partially collapsed. While it existed, however, the bridge revealed one aspect of the distinctive history of Grand Teton National Park.
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HM NumberHM1T84
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Date Added Monday, July 25th, 2016 at 9:02am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)12T E 535894 N 4855994
Decimal Degrees43.85616667, -110.55336667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 51.37', W 110° 33.202'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 51' 22.2" N, 110° 33' 12.12" W
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Area Code(s)307
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Unnamed Road, Moran WY 83013, US
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