Grand Tetons Camping

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Colter Bay Village has the only full hook up RV park in Grand Teton National Park that accepts reservations. I just made reservations there for a couple nights next spring. That's two night there and four nights at Madison. Figured I had better get the full hookups since we wont have showers at Madison, maybe a quick Navy shower in the camper but I doubt it since we have very small tanks.

We did not RV here, but stayed in cabin, but Headwaters at Flagg Ranch had facilities. Located in GTNP and only 2 miles from south entrance to Yellowstone.
If you want to boondock Grassy Lake road had some isolated sites.

Unfortunately, if you are planning on staying at the Colter Bay RV Park, you had better work on your reservations now for next year. We have been camping at Colter Bay for over 50 years and I have never driven past the RV Park entrance without the sign saying full. The full sign rarely goes up at the campground but the later you come to the campground, fewer choices of spots to camp are available.

Rangerman40 wrote:
We stayed at Colter Bay this summer. Full hook ups and I was literally 1min from the shores of Jackson Lake.

there are two Colter Bay campgrounds, one is the RV park with hookups and the other is the regular no-hookups campground.

the RV park will require reservations while the regular campground doesn't.

Are you talking about the Colter Bay Village RV Park? If so, it does allow reservations. We stayed there last summer and had our spot reserved months in advance. We found it to be a lovely campground with lots of nice pine trees and walking paths to Jackson Lake, which is stunning.

There is also a Colter Bay Campground, so you have to make sure to get the right one. It looks to me like the campground doesn't take reservations.

We didn't venture into the other parks, so I can't offer any comparisons, unfortunately.

We stayed at Colter Bay this summer. Full hook ups and I was literally 1min from the shores of Jackson Lake.

CloudDriver, no ruffled feathers, I have camped at Colter Bay for over 50 years and had to go to Gros Ventre for a week about two years ago and was disappointed compared to Colter Bay. the campground is nice and open, we had two moose stroll through our campground while we were there but there are no showers, general or grocery store and no restaurants. So, I just really talk up Colter Bay whenever I get a chance. Plus, when we go to Colter Bay, we also tow our boat as we fish most of the time we are there and it only takes us about 10 minutes to get the boat hooked up and ready to put in the water there as opposed to about 45 minutes coming from Gros Ventre. So, different strokes for different folks. All's fine.

Thanks for the feedback. We may target GV. But nice to know we won't be stuck in a commercial campground.

I really appreciate reading these reviews, thanks to all.