Would love to get advice on our trip to Yellowstone next year. We're going the middle of July and would like get advice on the following:-Where to set up camp: -We'll be hauling a 34' trailer -We need a reservation site -Don't want to camp in a parking lot -Full hook-up would be awesome, but can settle for dry camp also -Central location-Advice on dry camping. We have never been dry camping and my kids (and us included) are used to full amenities. At the least, we would like lights, so we're planning to get a small Gen to recharge during the week.-We want to be able to take showers in the camper, so would need to fill the tank and empty the tank. We have all the needed items to do both, including a portable water tank and external pump to transfer into our fresh water tank.-We love fires; whether we use our portable pit or buy wood there; especially as cool as it gets-Any additional advice on what to bring while dry camping

The town of West Yellowstone has full service RV parks. The Grizzley RV park is nice. Close to everything.

Check out this site for info on camping inside the park.http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/camping.htmThere are also several private campgrounds outside the park boundaries.

We just came back from a trip to Yellowstone. The park is huge, consider moving mid week otherwise you have a lot of driving to get past areas you already visited. We stayed at Grizzly RV park in the little town of West Yellowstone. It is a really nice, big, RV park; but there are no open fires allowed anywhere in West Yellowstone. As you have recognized, if you are boondocking your limiting factor will be water and dumping. Even with a tote tank you have to be able to dump it somewhere. We did a few days at Yellowstone, then went through the park to about a mile outside the of the South entrance and stayed at Flagg Ranch in the national forest. It was the only place we could have a fire, but the mosquitoes were prehistoric size and there were a lot of them. We visited the Northern half of the park from West Yellowstone, then did the Southern half of the park from Flagg Ranch. After a couple days there we went about 2 hours further and spent a few days at Jackson WY visiting the Grand Tetons. There we stayed at The Virginian RV park. Again, nice, big, no fires. It was linked to The Virginian motel, but the entrance is down a side street. BTW: bring a wide variety of clothes. We were there in late June. We had temps in the 80's and we had snow at Old Faithful - in June! I recommend that you plan and make reservations soon. We did ours about 6 months in advance and lots of places were already full or filling fast. Don't delay!

There is a very nice campground in Inland Park Idaho.It's call Red Rock.It's about 20 miles from the west entrance to Yellowstone..Tim

It was a hard choice between Inland Park RV and Grizzly RV. I decided to make reservations at Grizzly RV Park and make a request for specific pull through sites (they said that with reservations this early, they can usually accommodate). I know there's no open fires, but we'll get over that. We'll probably be gone from morning to night anyway.

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jbjuices
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
It was a hard choice between Inland Park RV and Grizzly RV. I decided to make reservations at Grizzly RV Park and make a request for specific pull through sites (they said that with reservations this early, they can usually accommodate). I know there's no open fires, but we'll get over that. We'll probably be gone from morning to night anyway.
placergoldman
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
There is a very nice campground in Inland Park Idaho.It's call Red Rock.It's about 20 miles from the west entrance to Yellowstone..

Tim
Boband4
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
We just came back from a trip to Yellowstone. The park is huge, consider moving mid week otherwise you have a lot of driving to get past areas you already visited. We stayed at Grizzly RV park in the little town of West Yellowstone. It is a really nice, big, RV park; but there are no open fires allowed anywhere in West Yellowstone. As you have recognized, if you are boondocking your limiting factor will be water and dumping. Even with a tote tank you have to be able to dump it somewhere. We did a few days at Yellowstone, then went through the park to about a mile outside the of the South entrance and stayed at Flagg Ranch in the national forest. It was the only place we could have a fire, but the mosquitoes were prehistoric size and there were a lot of them. We visited the Northern half of the park from West Yellowstone, then did the Southern half of the park from Flagg Ranch. After a couple days there we went about 2 hours further and spent a few days at Jackson WY visiting the Grand Tetons. There we stayed at The Virginian RV park. Again, nice, big, no fires. It was linked to The Virginian motel, but the entrance is down a side street. BTW: bring a wide variety of clothes. We were there in late June. We had temps in the 80's and we had snow at Old Faithful - in June! I recommend that you plan and make reservations soon. We did ours about 6 months in advance and lots of places were already full or filling fast. Don't delay!
Murphsmom
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
Check out this site for info on camping inside the park.
http://www.yellowstonenationalpark.com/camping.htm
There are also several private campgrounds outside the park boundaries.
Mandalay_Parr
Explorer
Aug 09, 2014
The town of West Yellowstone has full service RV parks. The Grizzley RV park is nice.
Close to everything.

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