Hey everyone it's Madalyn and today's video is all about where to stay when visiting Grand
Teton National Park and if you stick around until the end of this video we're going to discuss some
of the pros and cons of the different areas to stay in this beautiful part of the U.S.
The first option on the list for Grand Teton National Park lodging is hotels inside the park.
There are several hotel options inside the park including the Jackson Lake Lodge
the Jenny Lake Lodge and Headwaters lodge. Many offer cabin accommodations and allow you to
immerse yourself in the mountain surroundings. As always hotels inside the parks do get expensive
and book up very early in advance. The advantage to these hotels is that you are smack dab in
the middle of the park allowing you to maximize your time taking in this amazing mountain range.
Number two on the list is campgrounds inside Grand Teton National Park.
There are numerous camping options inside the park. The largest campground is the Gros Ventre
Campground that can accommodate everyone from RV campers to primitive tent campers
the Jenny Lake Campground is only for tent camping. Most of these sites offer
food storage lockers restrooms and potable water some larger campgrounds have showers
and laundry we'll have a link to information on the campgrounds in the video's description.
The third spot on the list is the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort area located in Teton Village.
Teton Village is located right outside of the park and offers several hotel options from the
Snake River Lodge and Spa to the Teton Mountain Resort as well as the Jackson Hole Four Seasons.
These hotels are pricier and book up quickly
for that high price you're paying for a higher end experience as the location and mountain
views can't be beat there are also various options for overnight rentals in this area
there is an advantage to being closer to the park entrance.
Additionally this area offers a number of solid restaurants to eat at however they
do come with a higher price tag than you would find in Jackson.
The final spot on the list is the town of Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson is located about 15 minutes from
the park entrance and is the largest town near Grand Teton National Park. Jackson is where you'll
find a wide variety of chain hotels as well as high-end options like the Jackson Hotel. You are
a bit farther away from the meat of the park but you are closer to shopping and nightlife.
Jackson has a number of great restaurants and local craft beer breweries.
Now before we get into our discussion if you have a great suggestion of a place to stay
when visiting the Tetons we'd love to hear from you with a comment below.
As I mentioned earlier in the video we're going to discuss the pros and cons of
the different areas to stay around Grand Teton National Park. So first off Jackson.
Yeah so Jackson is the biggest town in the area it's really probably the biggest town for
quite a quite a ways. And the nice part about Jackson is that it's where most of the amenities
are so if you are going to do something like a white water rafting, an animal safari,
go fly fishing with a group you're probably going to end up leaving from Jackson. So if
you're looking at doing those activities what ends up happening is you might be thinking okay
I'll stay in the park and then drive to Jackson to do those activities so either way instead of
staying in Jackson and driving into the park or staying in the park and driving Jackson you're
doing that drive one way or the other. The thing is Jackson also has the most options for places to
stay in terms of hotels and for restaurants and you're gonna probably do a little more
shopping in Jackson. And visit, they have great craft breweries so there's a lot of options for
more things to do that aren't just park centric when you're staying in Jackson and I think you're
gonna find those restaurants and those hotels to be a little bit cheaper than they would be
in the park or in the Jackson Hole Teton Village. Also you are like Adam mentioned, there is the
drive to the park from Jackson. It is a little bit longer, I looked on the map it said seven minutes,
that's to the park entrance like the boundary right to the to the real entrance of the like
the real interior of the park. It is a little bit longer and when we were there there was a decent
amount of traffic so really instead of 15 minutes to the park it was probably more like 30 minutes
and the one thing about that though is your drive is pretty scenic so you're not like oh this is,
you're not sitting in traffic like in a city like oh my gosh I'm stuck looking at billboards and
concrete, you're looking at like one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the entire world
right. And you know when we were driving we were in some traffic and we saw a moose on the way so
it really uh was kind of a fun little drop well those do cause traffic jams out there.
So what are the pros and cons of Jackson Hole and Teton Village,
well I'd say the first thing is that that area has all the amenities that you need
um there's hotels there's overnight rentals it's literally right up next against the park
boundaries so you can get into the park in five minutes. You're at the base of the mountains we
just step outside and you already feel like you're inside the park now and it's got a variety of
restaurants now all of those things come with a price tag it's gonna be the more pricey area
between Jackson and Jackson Hole Teton Village and like we mentioned Jackson has a lot of options of
where to stay Jackson Hole, Teton Village there's still a lot of options but not quite as many
yeah and I think one thing that can be a little confusing if you're researching this
going to that area for the first time is what is Jackson Hole? What is Jackson?
The Jackson Hole Ski Resort has the address of Teton Village so when a lot of people talk about
Jackson Hole they're talking about what's also known as Teton Village because that's the address
but when you go there there's a big sign that says Jackson Hole because that's the ski resort, so
that's really the area that we're talking about where we stayed.
That Teton Village and it really is a very unique setting for staying outside a national park
we just loved being that close to the park especially when we wanted to do wildlife viewing
later in the day like we wanted to see you know dusk is the big time to see animals out in the
park and we wanted to make sure we were there at that time so then we had the short drive back to
where we were staying as opposed to heading back to all the way back to Jackson. Yeah you can get
a nice meal um in Teton Village, you can get a nice meal in Jackson we kind of looked at it as
food was fuel while we're out there but it does provide a nice option for grabbing a quick meal
and if you want to stay in the park late and kind of see that wildlife then Jackson Hole is a great
opportunity to do that um the one thing I will note is that we went there in the summer if you're
going in the winter and you want to ski then this is where you want to stay but it's also going to
be really pricey. And finally what are the pros and cons to staying inside of the park well the
big pro to staying inside the park is that you're right there and if you really want to experience
the park and you don't care too much about where you're eating or all those other amenities
I mean you can stay in the park and never have to go outside of it and deal with those things so
and if you have an RV, I don't think that where you're gonna eat is really much of a problem for
you we always say if you have an RV that's a game changer and they do have campgrounds that
are RV friendly so a great opportunity for you if you have an RV and if you are like no I want
to attend camp then there's plenty of options for you to do that as well which is pretty cool
yeah they have some campgrounds that have showers and laundry so you definitely have some more
amenities than some other national parks where the camp camping is a little bit more primitive
but they also have several lodges as well inside the park so there's options if you
are not a camper but you want to be inside the park there's plenty of options to do that as
well yeah and those lodges have dining and so you could camp you could stay in
your rv and then go in and use that lodge for those amenities so that works out really well
too and those lodges are sitting on just an absolute absolutely beautiful setting
but again as i said earlier in the video these lodges are still expensive
and um they book up very quickly they book up very summer the summer is already booked up six
months in advance so you really need to be on top of that if that's what you that's you want
to stay inside the park you have to be on top of that that's always kind of one of those things
with national parks is where you're in those parks that have a lodge like Yellowstone, Grand Teton,
Grand Canyon, Yosemite you got to be on top of when those reservations are available and book
those ahead of time and be prepared to pay the sticker price because I kind of look at it as
going to a concert going to a theme park you're paying the price for entry and if you kind of
look at it like oh I'm paying 400 for a hotel room you may not think that that hotel room is
justifying the 400 price tag but the location is justifying that price tag so that's why they're
so expensive. If you enjoyed this video and you found the information helpful and you want to
see more from our time not only in the Grand Tetons but also Yellowstone we have plenty of
videos from those places up on our channel now including vlogs from our days inside the park.
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