Little Cottonwood Group
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- Sites
- 21 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Cottonwood Group Campground is located in beautiful Snake River Canyon, just 30 miles southwest of Jackson, in western Wyoming. It sits at an elevation of 5,700 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing and whitewater rafting on the adjacent Snake River. Keep reading
Recreation
Fly-fishing for cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout is a popular activity on the Snake, as is whitewater rafting and kayaking. A boat ramp is nearby.
Facilities
The campground offers one group campsite that can accommodate up to 40 people. The site is equipped with picnic tables, a campfire circle and food storage lockers. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no electricity. The parking area within the campground is dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a forest of pine and aspen trees, which provide partial shade. Summer wildflowers are abundant. The Snake River is below the campground, down the hillside.
Nearby Attractions
The city of Jackson is about 25 miles north, offering restaurants, groceries, shops, galleries and ski resorts with summer activities. Grand Teton National Park is approximately 40 miles north of the campground. It provides opportunities for boating, fishing, hiking, canoeing and outstanding mountain scenery.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
An additional $1 per person fee will be collected at the campground for extra people, over the reserved group size of 30; campground is not to exceed 40 people
Click here for more information on the Bridger-Teton National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Check-in Time is 2:00pm and Check-out time is 12:00pm
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 2 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…circle and food storage lockers. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided,…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and food storage lockers. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided, but there is no…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Bear boxes
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Boating
- Fishing
- Water sports
- Night sky · 223rd darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 21 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 1 of the 2 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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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
2 sites · the site map
All 2 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 2 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 2 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LITT | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 157 ftSnake River | 852 ft | $100 |
| Scan & Pay | S&P Site Type 0 | type not stated | 20 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Station Creek CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 5.2 mi
Alpine North LoopTarghee National Forest · 5.3 miEast Table Group CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 6.6 mi
East Table CampgroundTarghee National Forest · 6.6 mi
Blowout CampgroundCaribou National Forest · 7.1 miFrom Jackson, travel south on Highway 191/89/26 for about 13 miles, to Hoback Junction. Turn right on Highway 26/89 and continue along Snake River Canyon for 17 miles. The campground is on the south side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alpine Northeast, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°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
Little Cottonwood Group 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 →