Fishing Bridge Wyoming Trip Feedback Please

Eurocamper wrote:

Feel free to disagree.

I did!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

danewguy wrote:
I wasn't impressed in Fishing Bridge when we passed thru it, its kind of just a parking lot

I really don't understand this comment I see so often about Fishing Bridge. 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:

Pictures of Fishing Bridge

I've seen lots worse in West Yellowstone....

We made our trip to Yellowstone in mid July and the weather was perfect. Though I have to say we stayed outside the park in West Yellowstone, I wasn't impressed in Fishing Bridge when we passed thru it, its kind of just a parking lot

We enjoy early spring right after it opens. You see a lot more wildlife at that time. As more people arrive the animals go further back into the woods. Also zero traffic at that time.

You didn't really ask about the crowds but if I were going again, I would go just after Labor Day when the kids are back in school and it's not crazy busy. The weather will be cooling off but hopefully not freezing. We've been there several times and it can get really, really crowded. We've been there in Oct and it snowed on us and we've been there in May when it snowed.