Mormon Row Historic District

Mormon Row is where Grand Teton's human history and its most famous view meet. In the 1890s, Mormon settlers from Idaho founded a farming community called Grovont on the flats east of Blacktail Butte, drawn by fertile soil, shelter from wind and water from the Gros Ventre River; they clustered their homesteads along a single road, an unusual arrangement in the West that let families share labor, and over the following decades they dug irrigation ditches by hand, some of which still carry water. What remains is a scatter of barns, houses and outbuildings, and two of them have become icons: the barns of brothers John and Thomas Alma Moulton. John's two-story gambrel barn stands north of Antelope Flats Road next to his pink stucco house; T.A.'s barn, south of the road, took him about 30 years to finish. Photographed at sunrise with the Tetons glowing behind, the T.A. Moulton barn is one of the most reproduced images of the American West. The site also rewards wildlife watchers: bison and pronghorn often graze the sagebrush flats around the barns. Access is via Antelope Flats Road off US 191 north of Moose, with a small parking area by the pink house; there is no entrance station on this route. Seasonal and project notes: the park has been improving pedestrian and cyclist access here, with work zones through mid-November 2026, and Antelope Flats Road can close in winter depending on conditions. Fit: first-time visitors, photographers, families who like history with their scenery, and anyone wanting a gentle, flat walk.

The story behind the barns is one of persistence and, eventually, departure. Homesteading here was hard: one family did not have running water until 1927 and produced its own electricity with a windmill decades later. Rural electrification reached the row only in the 1950s, and by then many families had sold their land to become part of the expanding park. The National Park Service now preserves the buildings, and the site's interpretive signs and trail brochure explain who lived where and how the community worked.