Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4

Teton County, United States

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Located at the south end of Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park, the Jenny Lake CCC Camp NP-4 is a rare surviving example of a Civilian Conservation Corps facility, built by the National Park Service in the National Park Service rustic style. Operating from 1934 to 1942, it was the largest CCC camp in Grand Teton, housing young men who undertook substantial improvements to trails, campsites, employee housing, utilities, and timber salvage at Jackson Lake. The camp's surviving structures include a messhall and bathhouse. After the CCC program ended, the site was repurposed as a base for mountain climbing concessioners—earning it the nickname "C-Camp"—and the bathhouse became the foundation for Paul Petzoldt and Glenn Exum's Petzoldt-Exum School of American Mountaineering. The bathhouse continues to serve as the summer headquarters for Exum Mountain Guides. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006, the camp is exceptional for its preservation, as CCC facilities were typically dismantled upon program completion.