Mapping out our trip to Yellowstone - help
The wife and I are making plans for our first trip out West next June. The first try at the itinerary is shown below. We plan on making reservations at Yellowstone and Custer. Not sure where to stay i...
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Yellowstone set a record this year for September, over 500K visitors. Sept used to be a quiet month in YNP, but with summer visitation hitting big numbers, more people are going in Sept after most kids are in school. We tried late Sept on our last trip, and morning temps were down near 30 in Madison campground. This was 5 years ago, and we were hoping to be there when there would be less people. Nope, it was busy.
I have camped in YNP as late as the 1st week of Oct. In Oct, most services are shut down, or shutting down. We had to bail out early on the Oct visit because of heavy snow.
YNP and Teton get a lot of international as well as US visitors. If you plan to camp June-Aug, reservations are going to be necessary for the campgrounds than can handle large rigs (Grant, Fishing Bridge, Bridge Bay, Canyon, Colter Bay). The smaller campgrounds have unreserved spots, but very few sites will accomodate large RVs. Plan on small campgrounds to be full by 10AM.
I have never camped in the Fishing Bridge campground. That campground is limited to hard sided RVs, has hookups, and is basically a parking lot. Not my idea of camping in the rockies.
I have camped in YNP as late as the 1st week of Oct. In Oct, most services are shut down, or shutting down. We had to bail out early on the Oct visit because of heavy snow.
YNP and Teton get a lot of international as well as US visitors. If you plan to camp June-Aug, reservations are going to be necessary for the campgrounds than can handle large rigs (Grant, Fishing Bridge, Bridge Bay, Canyon, Colter Bay). The smaller campgrounds have unreserved spots, but very few sites will accomodate large RVs. Plan on small campgrounds to be full by 10AM.
I have never camped in the Fishing Bridge campground. That campground is limited to hard sided RVs, has hookups, and is basically a parking lot. Not my idea of camping in the rockies.
