John D Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway

The John D Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway is a protected area of ​​the National Park Service in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It consists of a strip of land which connects the Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park. In the Snake River Parkway running to its confluence with the Jackson Lake and the bundled here Highways U.S. 89, U.S. 191 and U.S. 278

The Memorial Parkway was named after John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960), to honor him for his donations of large plots. Rockefeller had in the first decades of the 20th century, purchased from private sources and from the Rockefeller Foundation lands for national parks such as Acadia National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Shenandoah National Park and Yosemite National Park and the United States handed over.

The parkway includes the northern slopes belonging to the Rocky Mountains Teton Range, where it merges into the volcanic embossed area of ​​the caldera of the Yellowstone volcano.

The protected area has no own facilities, its management is taken over by Grand Teton National Park.