Thirty-five acres does not sound like much next to a park measured in the hundreds of thousands. The price says otherwise: $10,995,000, or roughly $310,000 an acre [1].
That is what land inside the boundary of Grand Teton National Park is worth, and it is why parcels like this one usually go to someone other than the public. This one did not. The National Park Service and The Conservation Fund closed on it using the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, and celebrated the purchase on July 15 [1].
It is the sixth tract bought from the Resor family since 2001, bringing the running total to 212.4 acres [1]. The transactions have been spread across twenty-five years, one willing seller at a time.
What the money buys is permanence. The acreage is now park, and it will be park after everyone involved in the sale is gone [1].
