1930 Auto Club Map of Yellowstone and Grand Tetons, Wyoming

A c. 1930 Automobile Club of Southern California road map of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. It provides extensive and helpful detail to the motorist, reflecting the growing popularity of automobiles as a means of reaching and exploring the parks.

Yellowstone National Park

Taking in the northwest corner of Wyoming, the map notes famous landmarks throughout, including Old Faithful, Mammoth Hot Springs, and Yellowstone and Jackson Lakes. Major and minor roads, main park entrances, ranger stations, lodges, hotels, campsites, rivers, lakes, mudkettles, mudpots, hot springs, and other features are indicated. A mileage chart at right notes the distances between major attractions in the parks.

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is the United States' first and most famous national park. The park occupies the northwestern corner of Wyoming but also includes parts of Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone is considered to be the world's first national park. Today a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the park is known for its incredible geothermal features, the most famous of which is the Old Faithful Geyser. Yellowstone's iconic geothermal activity is caused by a dormant supervolcano, the largest in North America, lying directly under the park. Yellowstone Lake, one of the largest high-elevation lakes on the continent, occupies the caldera's center. Yellowstone is also renowned for its wildlife, home to wolves, grizzly bear, elk, black bear, and America's largest wild bison herd. As one of the most popular National Parks in the United States, millions visit Yellowstone annually to experience its mud pots, geysers, wildlife, and striking scenery.

Publication History and Census

This map was drawn by Selwyn Douglas and published by the Automobile Club of Southern California c. 1930. A 1928 catalog of copyright entries from the Library of Congress records a 1927 edition of a map with this title, but it is unclear if that is the only edition. This map is numbered 1237 in the Automobile Club's list of publications and appears to be among the rarest of their output; it does not appear in the very extensive online catalog of their maps. We note three examples in OCLC: Yale University, the Yellowstone Research Library in Gardiner, Montana, and Brigham Young University.