How's it going? My name is Marc Guido, and I'm the host of the Grand Adventure
channel on YouTube. And welcome to the Compendium channel on YouTube ,where it's
our goal to provide you with the information and resources you need to
get out there in camp! Now, I was recently in northwestern Wyoming
in the Green River Lakes area of the Wind River Mountains, shooting new
episodes from my channel Grand Adventure, and in the process we found a great
place to camp within the Bridger-Teton National Forest that we'd love to share
with you here on Campendium. Let's get started!
So, the Wind River mountains run through north central Wyoming. They're a
wonderfully underutilized mountain range. We're southeast of Jackson and just
north of the town of Pinedale in the Green River Lakes area. Now just so you
know, this is about 50 miles from the nearest town, which is Pinedale, and about
19 of that, about the last 19 miles is dirt road. Now it's a graded dirt road,
but it does have a lot of embedded small rocks in it and washboard. It's
slow-going, it's going to take you an hour to go that last 19 miles. But it is worth
every little bump, every little bounce, every little screw that I had to put
back in the RV, because this is an absolutely gorgeous spot!
Our camp is positively overrun with prairie dogs. That's a good thing because
they've cleaned up any food scraps that previous campers may have left behind.
This is bear country, home to both black bears and grizzlies that can smell food
from miles away. We had intended to camp in the campground at Green River Lakes,
which is the only place you're going to get within a quarter mile of the lake with
an RV to be able to camp because they do restrict boondocking for
the last quarter mile of that road. But just outside that quarter-mile limit we
found this absolutely gorgeous spot right on the Green River. Green River
Lakes Campground is a dry Forest Service campground located near the
shores of beautiful lower Green River Lake at an elevation of just over 8,000
feet. Thirty-nine sites, including three group sites, feature fire rings and picnic
tables, and vault toilets and drinking water hydrants are scattered throughout
the campground. Single sites cost $12 per night and the group sites are $35 per night.
Only the group sites are reservable. The single sites are all first-come
first-served. Forest Service officials tell us that the campground seldom fills,
and on this weekend preceding the 4th of July we found the campground perhaps 20%
full. Nevertheless, if you're unable to find space in the campground we found
seemingly unlimited boondocking sites along side the Forest Service road
leading to the campground along the banks of the Green River.
Now we hope that this video has inspired you to get out there and check out all
the wonderful things that Wyoming has to offer! We'll put links to both Green
River Lakes camping and free camping across Wyoming on Campendium in the
video description down below. If you like this video please give us a thumbs up
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If you'd like to take a deeper dive into camping in the Green River Lakes area
and the recreation surrounding Green River Lakes, we'll put a link right here
on the screen so you can come check it out on Grand Adventure! I think that's it
for this time. Until next time please remember, life is nothing but a Grand
Adventure! We'll see you then!