Hey everyone it's Madalynand this is our self Q&A for where to stay in Grand Teton National Park
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So let's go ahead and get started where to stay in Grand Teton National Park!
Well let's start within the park and that's not where we stayed,
but it's an option we looked at. There is some lodging provided by the National Park Service
you have to book that pretty far in advance and it's pretty pricey. Now Jackson Hole itself
and the whole grand Grand Teton National Park area is kind of a four dollar sign
kinda if you had to go to yelp and hit sort by dollar signs it would be the highest dollar sign
type area. And this isn't exactly unique to Grand Teton National Park because a lot of national
parks have limited places to stay so they tend to be more expensive, even hotels that might not be
that expensive elsewhere tend to be pretty pricey outside of a national park. Yeah it's you're
paying for the location and so with that said camping is your best bang for your buck option
and there are a number of campgrounds within the park and we did some research on that but we
quite frankly didn't want to lug all our camping gear across the country
knowing that at various points and times we would have to stay hotels. Now if you have
an RV go for it that changes the game. We don't have an RV, we have a tent. Yeah and if you were
staying within the park an RV would definitely be a game changer but we don't have one of those
and hey if you camped in a tent in Grand Teton National Park leave a comment below and let us
know about it because we think you're pretty brave and we might be camping in the future so that
would be helpful for us at which campground to stay at. But we ended up um staying in Jackson Hole
now we found a great deal on a overnight rental in Jackson Hole for an entire week which is
really what swung it in our favor and it was kind of a newer rental that they just just remodeled so
they were getting it up and i think the price is a little lower because they wanted to get it rented
out right away and so it kind of got lucky in that way because Jackson Hole can be pretty expensive
but what it offers is really incredible. I mean there's not too many places in the
United States that are as unique as Jackson Hole with proximity to the park it's all activities
that it has and then you can also hop on the road and be over to Jackson in like 15 minutes
yeah you really feel like you're in the park and um i know some people will make the argument
to stay in Jackson and we kind of split the difference to be a little bit closer to the
park because Jackson Hole is probably 20 minutes to the the park entrance and it's probably 20
minutes from Jackson so, well it's not even 20 minutes apart I mean it's five minutes
to that moose wilson road right right but moose wilson is a much longer road than you think it's
the moose wilson road if you've been to Grand Teton National Park is a great spot for wildlife
for whatever reason i'm guessing this is done on purpose half of the road is unpaved
and so yeah I think it has to do with the winter months it's closed and it's not worth having to
pave it I would assume so but it would be nice if the whole road was unpaved it's a fun drive
until you get to the unpaved park but with Jackson Hole we were lucky there's hotels there there are
Jackson Hole is a a is a ski town it's a it's a huge ski resort and um I'm sure it's really
really awesome to go in the winter months and get to see it in its full snowy glory because
being in the summer it was fantastic but it did make me very curious for ski season yeah
and in the summer you can ride a gondola up to the top of the mountain or they have a cafe
you can hike up the mountain right there there's pools depending on which condos you're staying
at or if you're staying at a hotel on site they have different types of restaurants whether it's
italian or thai or austrian i mean and then they have a little gas station right there
uh you can get a sloshy slaunchy slushy and sloshy is a is an adult beverage but it's
just like a slushie but with alcohol yeah so and it's open alcohol there so you can
grab a drink or a beer from the mangy moose and walk around and enjoy yourself the
major moose is a fun spot to definitely grab a beer and it's kind of iconic um
so all in all that worked out really well but we had initially booked a place in Jackson and
Jackson's a little bit further south that's a bit of a driving to the park I think probably takes
for i mean legitimately 25 or 30 minutes to get into the meat of the park from Jackson but that's
the closest town to Grand Teton National Park and it's a very very cool town oh yeah there's so much
there's so much to do there there's really cool breweries and restaurants and shopping
It was a lot of fun we spent a few afternoons in Jackson just sort of exploring
and we definitely see the benefits for staying there yeah and they've got some good restaurants
they've got like madeline said there's some brewery snake river brewery roadhouse brewery
went to both of those they had good craft beer and so Jackson is definitely an option i think you
can probably find better bang for your buck for lodging in Jackson than you can for Jackson hole
and you can get overnight rentals or hotels so those are your three big options staying
in the park where you're camping or they've been lodging in the park as well it's very expensive
you have to book it ahead of time camping is a lot cheaper but it's definitely primitive you have
jackson hole where you've got overnight rentals or hotels gonna be pretty pricey and then jackson
which is gonna probably split the difference between the two hotel wise and probably a little
bit cheaper AIRBNB rentals those are really your three options and we had to do it again
I don't think we could pass up Jackson Hole because it just combines the best injury to
the park modern amenities you're you're not really roughing you're you're luxury roughing it you're
and since we stayed in we were there for about a week we did stay in a condo so we we felt like
we were kind of living there so it also was the experience that we wanted to have yeah and the
thing about National Parks is that when the sun goes down it day's kind of over right right and
for camping you got a campfire going you got to do all that but it was nice to maybe be able to go
and have a beer in you know Jackson Hole or grab it grab a restaurant and then walk back and it
was nice to to have a like a definite home base we weren't just like oh we had a long day now we're
just going to go hang out in a hotel which some people that's exactly what you want to do and you
should do that but for us we we wanted to stay in the park as long as possible as well and if things
were closing we didn't want to have to rush back and worry about dinner reservations either we were
kind of able to do our own thing that way and one way we did save a little money on this trip
was we went grocery shopping and we i think we made our lunch every day we were there we'd
we'd pack a lunch and i think we ate dinner a couple nights i think we just threw in a frozen
pizza because we were like we knew we'd get back later because we were looking for wildlife
and the time we got back things were closed it was just like well we don't want to make a huge mess
just throwing a frozen pizza so we actually probably end up saving a little bit of money
on food costs because we weren't trying to eat out three times a day right and again it's it's
really up to you the kind of trip that you want to have if you want to go and hike and
then sort of have a spa night at your hotel and and relax that way then go for it if you want to
hike all day and then go camp at night and kind of rough it and feel at one with nature
you can do that if you want to have a little more apartment life and see how does how does it feel
to live here for an extended period of time you can do that as well so there's a lot of options
for staying around Grand Teton yeah I'm not sure there's a National Park that kind of has
as many different options right outside of it usually more limited but like you said
Jackson Hole worked out Jackson Hole worked out really well for us and we would do it again
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