Trip Planning: The Perfect Family Trip 2016!
Hello to all my friends here that have shared in our first, "The Perfect Family Trip". At the time, we thought that may be a one time shot. We are terribly excited to say that we have had a permanen...
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tragusa3 wrote:
Anyway, I'll post some last minute questions here:
We are planning to buy groceries at the last cheap grocery store before we get to the Tetons. We'll have 14 days total at the Tetons and Yellowstone, but can't hold that many groceries at once. I see a Walmart 1.5 hours to the east of Fishing Bridge. We could take a half day to drive out and restock? Is that drive worthy of some site seeing too? To those that have been, how would you handle 14 days of groceries? I'm too cheap to buy them all at the park stores.
The Walmart east of FB is the one in Cody and it's a gorgeous drive from FB to Cody - looks like a spaghetti Western movie set with red rock formations and the Shoshone River running through the valley. Cody has several great features including the Buffalo Bill Cody dam and the three museums in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. You probably don't have time to do much in Cody, but Google it and see if there is something besides groceries that justifies your trip.
As others have mentioned, there are reasonable supermarkets in Jackson. West Yellowstone has stores, but they aren't much cheaper than ones in the park.
14 days of groceries requires a big refrigerator/freezer with two or three big (60 qt or bigger) coolers and good planning, but it can be done. Based on your other trip report, I think you have the ability to plan the grocery issue and make it work.
