Atherton Creek Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 16All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Atherton Creek Campground is located on Lower Slide Lake. This is a beautiful and quiet camping location where you can quickly and easily get away from the hustle and bustle of Grand Teton National Park and Jackson, but still access those places in less than 30 minutes if you wish. The road access is paved up to the campground and winds through aspen stands with gorgeous views of the Gros Ventre River. Boat and fishing access are excellent for Lower Slide Lake, allowing for great trout fishing and peaceful evenings floating around looking for wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Encompassing a landscape of rivers, mountains, trails and forest roads, the Bridger-Teton National Forest is one of the most popular recreation forests in the nation. Anglers will find populations of cutthroat trout when casting their lines out into the water. Boating, kayaking, paddleboarding and endless miles of hiking trails are within walking distance from the campground.
Facilities
Atherton Campground has 21 standard sites (16 are available for reservation), suitable for tents and smaller trailers. Vault toilets are provided. Each site has a picnic table, fire ring and bear box.
Natural Features
The Bridger-Teton National Forest offer more than 3.4 million acres of public land for your enjoyment. Pristine watersheds, abundant wildlife and immense wildlands, the BTNF comprises a large part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 United States. Contact Info For local information, please call (307) 739-5400 or call (307) 739-5400 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Slide Lake, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Gros Ventre Wilderness, Gros Ventre Slide Interpretive site & trail
What the agency tells you
ATTENTION -- BE BEAR AWARE - Bears are active in all campgrounds. All scented items -- food, beverages, pet food, coolers, cook stoves and toiletries -- should stored in locked vehicles or in the provided bear-proof storage boxes.
No public lake access through the campground. Pets must be always leashed. One RV with tow vehicle per single site or two vehicles per site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a $10 per night fee and collected at the campground. Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed. Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation, or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation. Firewood bundles may be available for purchase from the campground host. Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only. Click here for more information about Bridger-Teton National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 16
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…suitable for tents and smaller trailers. Vault toilets are provided. Each site has a picnic table, fire…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Paddle Boating
- Scenic drives
- Wilderness access
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 24 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“Single Site: $20 per night, Cash or Check only Additional Vehicle Fee: $10 per vehicle per night - pay on site, Cash or Check only” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 sites
All 16 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 16 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A01 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A03 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A05 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A06 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A07 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A08 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A09 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A10 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A11 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A12 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A15 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A18 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A19 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A21 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | $40 |
| A24 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 | |
| A26 | standard nonelectric | $20–$40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gros Ventre CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 7.5 miCurtis Canyon CampgroundTeton National Forest · 11 mi
Jenny Lake CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 13 mi
Signal Mountain Campground15 miHatchet CampgroundTeton National Forest · 15 miFrom Jackson, drive north on Highway 26/89 into Grand Teton National Park until you reach the GTNP roundabout. From the roundabout take the right exit onto the Gros Ventre Road heading east, passing the community of Kelly. The continue north on the same road and turn right on Forest Service Road #30400. Travel 5 miles and turn right into the Atherton Campground
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kelly, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Atherton Creek Campground is in Wyoming’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Harriet Hageman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →