yellowstone grand tetons without reservations
Need a little help. We are considering heading to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons sometime in August. We will be traveling close to 2000 miles to get there. We only like to travel about 350 miles a d...
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...and we're just the opposite. We've never had reservations in either Yellowstone or Grand Teton with our 40' motorhome. We been to both many times in August and September. Many schools begin the first part of August nowadays. If you can plan to spend the previous night nearby and pull in the morning you'll get a site.
We prefer to stay in the parks themselves. Some campgrounds don't even accept reservations. There are always cancellations and no shows and we've also gotten a site like that.
For Grand Teton we've always stayed in Colter Bay campground or Gros Ventre campground (our favorite). Each has 300 non-reservable sites and rarely fill, even on the major holidays. They have water fill and dump stations.
For Yellowstone we've stayed at Mammoth (our favorite), Madison and Bridge Bay. We've also stayed at a wonderful national forest campground about a mile north of W. Yellowstone called Baker's Hole just because we like it. They have some electric sites but we prefer the ones on the Madison River in the rear which don't have electric. There's no water fill or dump station here so you'd have to arrive full with fresh and empty tanks. You can dump in any RV park in W. Yellowstone. We've also stayed at Henry's Lake State Park which is nice. We tried staying just west of Cody but it's too far to drive into Yellowstone every day.
Have a great trip!
We prefer to stay in the parks themselves. Some campgrounds don't even accept reservations. There are always cancellations and no shows and we've also gotten a site like that.
For Grand Teton we've always stayed in Colter Bay campground or Gros Ventre campground (our favorite). Each has 300 non-reservable sites and rarely fill, even on the major holidays. They have water fill and dump stations.
For Yellowstone we've stayed at Mammoth (our favorite), Madison and Bridge Bay. We've also stayed at a wonderful national forest campground about a mile north of W. Yellowstone called Baker's Hole just because we like it. They have some electric sites but we prefer the ones on the Madison River in the rear which don't have electric. There's no water fill or dump station here so you'd have to arrive full with fresh and empty tanks. You can dump in any RV park in W. Yellowstone. We've also stayed at Henry's Lake State Park which is nice. We tried staying just west of Cody but it's too far to drive into Yellowstone every day.
Have a great trip!
