Jenny Lake Campground
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- $58From, per site
- Sites
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tucked away at the base of the Teton Mountain Range, Jenny Lake Campground is situated within walking distance of the eastern shore of Jenny Lake, with views of Teewinot Mountain, Mount St. John, and into Cascade Canyon. This tent-only campground has two loops with 51 individual campsites, three of which are ADA-compliant sites, and 10 hiker-bicycler sites. The Jenny Lake Store is a five-minute walk from the campground and offers firewood, ice, clothing, souvenirs, and snacks. Offering a wide array of activities including boating, hiking, and cycling, the Jenny Lake area is one of the most-visited sections of the park, making this campground a great location for exploration. The campground is open from earl-May to late-September, and is extremely popular. Those looking to camp at Jenny Lake are strongly encouraged to plan ahead and book early. Keep reading
Recreation
Several popular trails begin at Jenny Lake. Hikers can loop the lake, visit Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point, or travel into the backcountry via Cascade Canyon. Longer and more challenging trails like Lake Solitude and Hurricane Pass are also accessible from this area. Visitors of all abilities have a multitude of options for exploring the Jenny Lake area. Take a boat ride, set up a picnic on the lakeshore, go for a wildlife-spotting walk, or cycle along Teton Park Road using the multi-use pathway that extends from South Jenny Lake all the way to the town of Jackson. The Jenny Lake Visitor Center makes its home inside the historic Harrison Crandall Studio. The original building was built in the 1920's, and recent renovations were completed in 2019. Stop in to chat with a ranger, visit the Grand Teton Association store, or learn about the history of art in conservation and the National Park Service. Follow the Discovery Trail to Jenny Lake. Along the way, stop to explore interpretive panels highlighting area wildlife, history, and the creation of the landscape. Take an easy stroll to see the lakeshore, or use the path to access the boat dock and area trails. The Discovery Trail is a paved, 0.35m/0.56km trail, with wheelchair access to Jenny Lake.
Facilities
Jenny Lake Campground is a tent-only campground. Trailers, campers, pop ups and ALL towables are not permitted. Each campsite includes a compact gravel parking space for ONE VEHICLE NO LARGER THAN 8 FEET HIGH AND 14 FEET LONG, a tent pad, a picnic table, a fire pit with metal fire grate, bear-proof food storage lockers, and access to nearby water spigots, flush toilets, and two token-operated showers. Only two tents are permitted per site. ADA Access: Three campsites are ADA compliant, and feature accessible picnic tables, leveled sites, and leveled pathways to accessible restrooms and payphone. One coin-operated shower is also ADA accessible. Routes to the amphitheater are not wheelchair accessible. There is no WiFi/internet service at Jenny Lake Campground. The closest public wireless internet access is at the Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center in Moose. Cellular coverage varies, and may be available depending on location within the campground and service provider. There is a campground host on-site, and a house phone located at the kiosk. Firewood, ice, and supplies can be purchased at the nearby Jenny Lake Store and not in the campground.
Natural Features
Jenny Lake Campground is situated within short walking distance of Jenny Lake and right along the Grand Teton National Park bike path. The campground straddles a glacial moraine covered with an open forest of lodgepole pine, subalpine fir and Douglas fir. Across the lake, Teewinot Mountain, Cascade Canyon and Mount St. John dominate the landscape. The Jenny Lake area is home to black and grizzly bears, moose, deer, and other large animals. Bears are often seen on trails and in the developed areas. Being prepared for an animal encounter can help ensure the safety of you and the wildlife. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (877) 444-6777 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Visitors can take a self-guided tour of Grand Teton via the 43-mile Scenic Loop Drive, offering an opportunity to photograph the famous landscape and local wildlife. Make sure you stop at the historic Jackson Lake Lodge for its famous huckleberry milkshakes and spectacular Teton views through 60-foot tall wall-to-wall windows. While you’re there, book a scenic raft trip, park bus tour, or horseback ride. Then head a few miles north to Colter Bay Village where you can rent a kayak or canoe, take a guided boat ride to the majestic base of the Teton Range, or just enjoy lunch and the stunning lake view from the marina. A short drive from Jenny Lake is the town of Jackson, where you can visit the National Museum of Wildlife Art just north of town, walk under the famous giant elk antler archway in town center, attend the Jackson Hole Rodeo, browse local shops, or dine at one of the many restaurants. In the opposite direction, Yellowstone National Park is within easy reach by car, and has a great diversity of activities for everyone to enjoy.
Charges & Cancellations
Changing Reservations: There is no change fee if a visitor extends or shortens a reservation, as long as the change includes dates from the original reservation. Additionally, there is no change fee if the visitor wants to switch sites that are the same price with the same reservation dates in the same facility. If a visitor wants to switch dates that are entirely outside of the original reservation dates, there is a $10 change fee. If a reservation is made that includes dates beyond the maximum booking window, that reservation cannot be changed until 18 days have passed from the original booking date. Once a reservation date has begun, visitors cannot change a reservation using the online system or through the Call Center. Onsite staff will assist with changes or cancellations. Cancellations: Visitors may cancel their reservation prior to arrival both on-line and through the call center. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. A visitor who cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival will pay a $10.00 service fee AND forfeit the first night's approved rate including tax and applicable add-on. Cancellations for a one-night reservation will forfeit the entire amount paid and will not be subject to an additional service fee. Visitors who cancel a group overnight facility reservation less than 14 days prior to arrival date will pay a $10 service fee AND forfeit the first night’s rate. No-Shows: A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Staff will hold a campsite until check-out time on the day following the arrival date. No-shows are assessed $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's rate, taxes and applicable add-on for a campsite. Early Departures: Visitors are requested to notify staff at the facility if they depart early to allow others to use the site. If the visitor chooses to depart early, they may forfeit the approved rate and applicable tax and applicable add-on for the day of departure. If a visitor departs prior to the scheduled check-out date, they may be eligible for a partial refund. Visitors may notify the Recreation.gov call center to request a refund of remaining unused nights. If a visitor requests a refund for an early departure after the facility check-out time (11 am) has passed, the visitor will not be refunded for that night and is eligible for a refund on any additional nights that will not be used. Refunds: Visitors may submit a refund request through their Recreation.gov profile within 7 days of the end date of their reservation. Visitors may also initiate a refund request through the call center at any time after their reservation has ended. Refunds for debit or credit card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank or credit card used to pay. For check or cash purchases, Recreation.gov will mail a Treasury check for refunds of cash, check, or money order payments to the address associated with the reservation. Treasury check refunds may take up to 6-8 weeks to arrive. In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team or facility manager will refund all fees and will attempt to notify you using the contact information within the Recreation.gov visitor profile.
What the agency tells you
Maximum allowed per site is two small to medium sized tents, one vehicle, and six guests. (For reference, 2 motorcycles = 1 vehicle), THIS IS STRICTLY ENFORCED. OVERSIZED VEHICLES MAY NOT BE ABLE TO FIT INTO MANY CAMP SITES AT JENNY LAKE CAMPGROUND AND MAY HAVE EXTREME DIFFICULTY TRAVELING THE NARROW CAMPGROUND ROAD.
The maximum stay permitted at Jenny Lake Campground is 7 nights, and the maximum cumulative stay between all park campgrounds is 30 nights.
Check-in is at noon, and check-out is 11 AM.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Quiet hours are 10pm - 6am.
Camping accommodations are pet-friendly. Please review campground & National Park pet regulations.
Wildlife activity is prevalent in the park, and bear activity is frequent in this campground. Please be familiar with food storage and wildlife safety guidelines and please practice proper food storage guidelines and rules.
U.S. citizens or permanent residents with permanent disabilities can apply for an Access Pass through the National Park Service.
Water Hookup Fee: The Utility fee is imposed on all lodging and camping products to defer the higher cost of providing water and sewer in the remote locations in which we operate. The amount of this fee is determined by taking the difference in the cost of providing these services less the comparable cost of similar services in local areas. This fee is reviewed annually and approved by the National Park Service.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 61 · 49 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 14 ft
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- Coin Showers
- COIN SHOWERS on 58 of 61 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 10 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Canoeing
- Environmental Education
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Water access
- Wilderness access
- Tree cover
- 29%
- Night sky · 173rd darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- Spotty
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 4.5 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 49 of the 61 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $58 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.
“Additionally, there is no change fee if the visitor wants to switch sites that are the same price with the same reservation dates in the same facility. - If a visitor wants to switch dates that are entirely outside of the original reservation dates, there is a $10 change fee. - If a reservation is made that includes…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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
61 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 49 mapped sitesAll 61 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. 49 of the 61 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Jenny Lake | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 69 ft | 529 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 28 ft | 496 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 10HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 28 ft | 472 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 50 ft | 445 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 66 ft | 456 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 14 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 54 ft | 472 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 54 ft | 455 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 42 ft | 490 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 42 ft | 532 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 71 ft | 534 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 46 ft | 560 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 1HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 2 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 69 ft | 512 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 46 ft | 530 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 58 ft | 563 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 87 ft | 579 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 23 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 129 ft | 574 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 24 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 84 ft | 602 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 25 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 59 ft | 654 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 25a | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 29 ft | 704 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 29 ft | 709 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 64 ft | 757 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 28 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 82 ft | 746 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 29 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 39 ft | 721 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 2HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 3 | type not stated | 14 ft | yes | 480 ft | ||
| Jenny Lake | 30 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 39 ft | 751 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 31 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 35 ft | 726 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 32 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 35 ft | 759 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 33 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 121 ft | 721 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 34 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 83 ft | 702 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 35 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 36 ft | 712 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 36 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 36 ft | 690 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 37 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 47 ft | 691 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 38 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 47 ft | 722 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 39 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 30 ft | 739 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 3HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 4 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 45 ft | 438 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 30 ft | 723 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 41 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 92 ft | 766 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 39 ft | 763 ft | $58 | ||
| Jenny Lake | 43 | tent only nonelectric | 39 ft | 741 ft | $58 | ||
| Jenny Lake | 44 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 45 ft | 725 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 45 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 23 ft | 697 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 46 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 23 ft | 697 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 47 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 39 ft | 713 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 48 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 44 ft | 759 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 49 | type not stated | 769 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 4HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 5 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | yes | 45 ft | 427 ft | $58 |
| Jenny Lake | 50 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 44 ft | 741 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 5HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | yes | 75 ft | 448 ft | $58 |
| Jenny Lake | 6HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 7 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 26 ft | 514 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 7HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 8 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 26 ft | 491 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 8HB | type not stated | 514 ft | ||||
| Jenny Lake | 9 | tent only nonelectric | 14 ft | 34 ft | 516 ft | $58 | |
| Jenny Lake | 9HB | type not stated | 514 ft |
25 of 61 listed
Getting there
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Where it is
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
Jenny Lake 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center in Moose. Cellular coverage varies, and may be available depending on location within the…”