Fishing Bridge Wyoming Trip Feedback Please

Eurocamper wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
It is not a parking lot. To me a parking lot is barren gravel with no trees. This campground is full of trees! Here are some pictures of it:

Fishing Bridge doesn't look like a parking lot in those pictures because there is nobody parking in them. An empty campground looks a lot different from one where there are wall-to-wall trailers and RV's.

I've stayed in every campground in Yellowstone except Lewis Lake and Mammoth and hands-down Fishing Bridge was the most miserable place I stayed. The only reason to stay there would be if you just couldn't dry camp and absolutely needed full hookups.

We definitely dry camp in Yellowstone, too, because we avoid RV Parks.

So, according to your description, ALL RV parks are parking lots because the ones we've seen have row after row of RVs and many times without the numerous trees that Fishing Bridge has so all you're looking at are RVs. We've driven through Fishing Bridge when it was filled and it looked like any other RV park - but, it had many trees. If you need full hookups then that's the place to go for Yellowstone.

Well it looks like the Fishing bridge haters have arrived.

Most seem to talk about how miserable it is in the campground. Well, if you are looking for a campground to just hang out in, there are better options. If , however you are like most who travel to Yellowstone, the campground is not what you come to see. The actual time most will spend in the campground is eating dinner and sleeping. Most get up early, take a lunch with them, spend all day out in the park and return for dinner. Then it is out again to view animals in the evening or Ranger presentations at the many campfire programs, then back to get cleaned up and off to bed in preparation for the next day.

Fishing Bridge stays full for the most of the summer for a very good reason, convenience. If you don't like it, thanks for staying away and leaving room for those who do.

Keith

I really appreciate the more positive input re:Fishing Bridge. We have reservations there June 2014 and after first reading some posts I got a bit squeamish. Then I read more responses, looked at the pics and,frankly, I don't see the parking lot comparison, and our goal is to spend as little time as possible in the RV. Just an aside....I notice that you can have the bejeezers scared out of you on some of these forums...you sort of have to take the positive and the negative and figure it out somewhere in the middle.

Been camping up there for over 30 years. Fishing Bridge is the most crowded and least attractive campground in Yellowstone. Any of the other eleven campgrounds in the park will provide a better and more memorable camping experience.

On the other hand, if all you want is a place to crash at night that has hookups, it will probably meet you expectations. It's your vacation.

Feel free to disagree.

Eurocamper wrote:

Feel free to disagree.

I did!

I will have to FB is hardly what i would consider a parking lot after looking at the pictures. Those are the best pics of FB i've seen. I'm planning on going in 2 years and was curious on what it actually looked like. Thanks for the pics. I'm planning on going to Yellowstone to actually see Yellowstone, not stay in a campground all day!

Looking forward to it!

Ok sorry I started such a stir. I myself do a lot of research before going to a campground, including checking out campgrounds when I am staying in the area. I was staying in the Yellowstone area for two weeks and found that we needed a day off here or there from the park. Given that I don't feel I would have been happy in FB (notice I said "I") I checked out every campground in the area for future trips and in my opinion FB would be my last choice. Again that is my opinion. I was just trying to help you pick something you would be happy with.

If you booked it then go and have fun enjoy yourself because the park is AWESOME. Worst case if you don't like FB then try something different next time.

Again sorry for the sir its not what I was trying to do.

Doug

July through mid-August is probably your best bet for no overnight freezing temperatures.

But anything is possible. We got a brief winter storm before the end of August one year we visited, and our family in the southern end of the Montana Rockies was snowed in for a week.

I find that an overnight freeze doesn't bother me when RVing, if daytime temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. For many areas super busy in summer, these fringe seasons are the best time to visit, as parks are less crowded and wildlife is on the move.

We were in Yellowstone the last part of May and camped at Madison, Norris and Fishing Bridge. Norris was by far my favorite. We only stayed at Fishing Bridge for one night and that was because Bridge Bay was full. It's not awful, but it's also not camping. You're packed in like sardines and there are no fire rings. I would only stay there again as a last resort, but that's just me. We prefer a truer camping experience. On a side note, we had every kind of weather imaginable, from t-shirt weather, to snow, to thunder and lightening. We saw lots of wildlife and tons of thermal activity. I would highly recommend going in May. It was an amazing experience.

I`m still in the beginning stages (back of my mind) for a summer 2014 Yellowstone/Tetons trip. FB will be a campground I will be staying at at some point in the trip. what is a good Northern Campground in Yellowstone? also is there a private campground along the Beartooth hwy?