Like the cabins at Upper Granite Canyon, Cascade Canyon, and Death Canyon, the Moran Bay Patrol Cabin is significant for its association with Grand Teton National Park administration and development, and for its association with federal rustic architecture. The cabin was constructed around 1932 and appears to have been shared by various federal agencies. The cabin is located in an area that was administered by the U.S. Forest Service from around 1905 until 1943. The building conforms to a standard design used widely by the Forest Service for backcountry cabins. In 1943, with the establishment of Grant Teton National Monument, the National Park Service assumed administrative control. Administrative trails linked Moran Bay Cabin with other National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service backcountry infrastructure.

Mormon Row is a linear array of uniform building complexes lining the north-south Jackson to Moran Road located at the southeast corner of Grand Teton National Park. The community once extended from the Gros Ventre River at the south to north of Blacktail Butte. Extant buildings are now limited to six building clusters and an isolated ruin representing six homestead withdrawals. These homestead withdrawals comprise the Mormon Row Historic District/rural historic landscape. Associated landscape features include elaborate fence and corral systems; the Mormon Row Ditch system; remains of the Johnson/Eggleston Ditch; a domestic dump; a hay derrick; the community swimming hole dammed in an intermittent drainage; windrows marking the location of formal homes and of the community church; and the cultivated fields and pasturage laboriously cleared by the original settlers.

The Mormon Row Historic District is significant in architecture and history. The district's period of significance extends from settlement of the Andy Chambers, John Moulton, and T.A. Moulton homesteads in 1908 to the 1950s when extension of Grand Teton National Park marked the end of concerted agricultural development. The community illustrates the extension of the ''Mormon Culture Region'' from Utah, Idaho, and Arizona, to interspersed communities throughout the west. The community also represents late-frontier Mormon settlement of high and arid country, where homesteaders practiced diversified agriculture on a limited land base, where multiple generations inhabited the family farm (or the adjoining farm), and where the number of failed homesteads equaled or exceeded the successful enterprises.

The Murie Ranch is located at the southern end of Grand Teton National Park just south of the Moose to Wilson Road. The complex consists of three building clusters: the main residential buildings; secondary guest cabins with associated outhouses; and utilitarian buildings. The Olaus Murie residence and studio were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 for their association with regional conservation. The property listing was expanded in 1998 to include the adjacent buildings originally part of the 1920s STS Dude Ranch yet later used as home and office space for scientist Adolph Murie and his wife Louise, as housing and meeting space for the 1953 annual meeting of the Wilderness Society Council, and as seasonal housing for the students, friends, and writers who converged on the Murie Ranch throughout the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

The larger district is significant for its association with conservationists Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie and with scientist Adolph Murie. The district's period of significance extends from the Muries' purchase in 1945 until the 1964 passage of the Wilderness Act, one year after Wilderness Society director and president Olaus Murie's death. As Wilderness Society director, Murie argued compellingly for the expansion of Grand Teton National Park, the creation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the preservation of the Ohio and Chesapeake Canal. In the process of these debates, Murie labored over the value and definition of wilderness. In perhaps his most enduring legacy, Murie demanded that our fiduciary responsibility for preservation of the natural world not be based on economical expediency but on the preservation of wilderness for its own sake, for its unquantifiable importance in our spiritual lives. The Murie Ranch was the scene for debates and decisions that set the tone for the Wilderness Society and for the entire American conservation community.

The Old Administrative Area Historic District consists of five houses with associated garages, an office building, and three large office/warehouse buildings. The district is significant as a clear statement of the National Park Service rustic style of the 1930s at Grand Teton National Park. The houses, warehouses, and administrative building are the only examples of those particular building plans in the Park. The complex was built during the period 1934-1939 by the Public Works Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps for the National Park Service using Service developed plans for natural parks. The district served as the headquarters and heart of Grand Teton National Park until completion of the new headquarters complex a few miles away at Moose, Wyoming during the 1960s.

The Ramshorn Dude Ranch Lodge, now the main building of the Teton Science School, is located in the southeastern corner of Grand Teton National Park. The Teton Science School campus contains the Lodge, over fifteen residences and small cabins, an ice house, a historic barn, and the imposing Hunter Hereford residence, moved from the Hunter Hereford Ranch and converted to a dining room in 1990. While the entire property retained insufficient integrity of setting and association for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, the Ramshorn Lodge retains remarkable integrity of design, workmanship, and materials, and is significant for its characteristics of dude ranch rustic architecture.

In 1935, mountaineer and climbing concessioner Paul Petzoldt (who would later found the National Outdoor Leadership School) purchased Ransom Adam's homestead at the mouth of Gros Ventre Canyon and proceeded to convert the property to a dude ranch. Petzoldt constructed the lodge, barn, and a few cabins using logs harvested from the surrounding hills. The Ramshorn soon became one of Jackson Hole's most exclusive destination resorts.

The String Lake Comfort Station is significant because it represents the National Park Service rustic style of architecture of the 1930s at Grand Teton National Park. It is one of three examples of this particular building type in the Park. The comfort station was built during the period 1934-1939 by either the Public Works Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps for the National Park Service using Service developed plans for natural parks. Before its move to its present location the comfort station was located closer to the Jenny Lake Ranger Station, the main point of visitor contact at Grand Teton National Park until completion of the newer headquarters complex at Moose, Wyoming. The comfort station follows the practices typical of depression era rustic architecture as expressed in Grand Teton and other western parks.

The Brinkerhoff and the adjacent caretaker's cottage were built in 1946 at the end of World War II. The main lodge was designed by Jan Wilding and is considered to be of exceptional significance as the only extant example of the later development of the vacation home. The Brinkerhoff also has exceptional significance in that it represents the final period of private development on United States Forest Service leases within the modern park and is the last remaining example of a forest lease vacation home within Grand Teton National Park. At one time there were 111 such leases within the present Park boundaries. Its significance is furthered by the fact that after the National Park Service acquired the property during the late 1950s the lodge was converted to a VIP retreat housing such dignitaries as Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy while they held public office. The presence of such dignitaries added to the favorable press the Park received after World War II and as a result further stimulated the tourist industry and park visitations. The Brinkerhoff also has exceptional significance in the area of rustic architecture and comes from the attempts of architect Wilding to update the rustic style into the post-World War II era.

The Triangle X Barn is part of the outbuilding complex of the only dude ranch still in operation within Grand Teton National Park -- the National Park Service licensed Triangle X. Around 1928, J. C. Turner of the Triangle X Dude Ranch moved dovetailed logs from neighbor John Fee's partially completed homestead cabin to the Triangle X Ranch where the logs were used to form the first ten courses of Turner's new barn. The barn is a graphic visual representation of divergent notching types; a reminder of the extent to which resources are reused in a frontier economy; and an example of the close connection between vernacular, ''pioneer,'' architecture and its dude ranch successor.

The Upper Granite Canyon Patrol Cabin is located in the extreme southwestern corner of Grand Teton National Park, deep in Granite Canyon, and northwest of Teton Village. Like the cabins at Death Canyon, Cascade Canyon, and Moran Bay, this patrol cabin is significant for its association with National Park Service administration and development, and for its association with Park Service rustic architecture. It is thought that this cabin was constructed in 1935 by Civilian Conservation Corps crews as part of the larger backcountry trail/cabin network.

The White Grass Dude Ranch historic district consists of ten guest cabins, a lodge, a dining hall, and a service/laundry building on the western edge of the White Grass Valley. The district buildings are all built in a style referred to as dude ranch vernacular. The historic district is significant because as a dude ranch it helped define and set the standards for the local Jackson Hole industry along with the Bar B C and J Y ranches. As a district it exemplifies the local development of dude ranches from cattle ranches in the area. The ranch was built during World War I as a cattle ranch, but by 1919 its owners, Hammond and Bispham, converted it to a dude ranch. After the conversion control of the property passed to Hammond's son-in-law Frank Galley who continued the operation until his death in 1985, making it the longest-lived active dude ranch in Jackson Hole.

The White Grass Ranger Station Historic District was built in 1930 using standardized plans of the National Park Service to be a backcountry ranger station for horse patrols during the early years of the Park's history. It was built at the western edge of the White Grass Valley southwest of Moose, Wyoming near a number of trail heads into the Teton Mountains which rise west of the district. The resources that make up the district include a cabin that functions as the ranger's office and quarters, a fire cache shed, a tack room shed, and a corral. The district was built in the rustic style as defined by the National Park Service. The district is the only example of the horse patrol era station extant in the Park.