Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
About 1914 there were still two petrified trees.
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“Winds of Change” interpretive sign explains the types of fires in the park in 1988.
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Side road to
Tower Ranger Station,
where you can buy a fishing license or a back-
country use permit or ask questions about this part of the park.
The building nearest the main road, now a private residence for park personnel, dates from
1907, when this was an outlying soldier station in a little-traveled part of the park.
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Tower service station.
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Tower-Roosevelt Junction. To the south on a short side road are Roosevelt Lodge and
its cabins and a small general store (facilities described on
page 215
). East is the Northeast En-
trance; south along the Grand Loop Road are Tower Fall, Dunraven Pass, and Canyon Junc-
tion; and west is Mammoth Hot Springs Junction.
