Grand Teton National Park offers many activities for its visitors to do including hiking the park's many trails. The national park has a rugged landscape with a high elevation and steep trails. Because of this, the park has a large number of strenuous trails. Along with the difficult trails, the park has many trails that are rated easy to moderate. The area can also see extreme and sudden weather change. Rangers and Visitors Centers will have the latest information on the trail conditions.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/hike.htm

When taking back-country hikes, the National Park Service warns backpackers to expect to travel no more then two miles per hour and to add an additional hour for every 1,000 feet of elevation gain.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/back.htm

Grand Teton National Park offers Ranger-led walks and hikes throughout the year. In the winter, they offer a guided snowshoe walk daily when the snow conditions allow it.http://www.nps.gov/grte/parknews/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=521172

Flagg Ranch has two trails and both are rated easy. They range from 2.5 to four miles long.

Colter Bay includes three trails with two considered easy and one easy to moderate. They are from two to over nine miles long.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/upload/Dayhikes10.PDF

The Jackson Lake Lodge area’s two trails are rated easy. The shortest, Lunch Tree Hill, is only ½ miles long and has interpretive signs along the trail.

Two Ocean Lake area has three trails. Two are moderate and take hikers by lakes. The third is rated moderate-strenuous and has 1,700 feet of total climbing.

Signal Mountain has one moderate trail that travels through forests to an overlook.

The Leigh Lake area contains three trails. They range from 1.8 to 13.0 miles and are rated from easy to strenuous.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/upload/Dayhikes10.PDF

String Lake has on easy trail of 3.7 miles and one very strenuous trail that has 4,900 feet of climbing.

The Jenny Lake/Cascade Canyon area has six trails. A shuttle boat can be taken to the mouth of Cascade Canyon for a fee. The trails range from 5.2 to 24 miles long.

Lupine Meadows’ two trails are booth rated strenuous and contain climbing. Taggart Lake has one easy and two moderate hikes.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/upload/Dayhikes10.PDF

Menors Ferry has one easy trail that is 0.3 miles long and rated easy. It takes hikers on a historic homestead and ferry tour.

Death Canyon offers four trails that are rated from moderate to very strenuous. Granite Canyon has one strenuous trail that is 18.5 miles long. It takes hikers to Marion Lake.

The Top of the Tram area contains two trails. One is moderate and the other is strenuous.

Teton Canyon has one strenuous hike that takes hikers on a steep climb to Table Mountain.</ref>http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/upload/Dayhikes10.PDF</ref>

Back-country camping and hiking is offered by the park. All overnight trips require a free permit. Overnight hikers can get their permits at the Colter Bay and Craig Thomas Discover Visitors Centers or the Jenny Lake Ranger Station. Climbing or mountaineering overnight camping permits can only be obtained at the Jenny Lake Ranger Station during the summer.http://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/back.htm