Lizard Creek Campground
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- A night
- $53From, per site
- Sites
- 6160 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Lizard Creek Campground is located in the northern portion of Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) and provides a convenient basecamp for campers taking day trips to both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. This 60-site campground sits on the northern shore of Jackson Lake and offers access to the lake waters and views of the northern Teton Mountain Range. The area is frequented by various park wildlife, large and small as well as a variety of bird species. This Campground is normally one of the last campgrounds to open and first to close for the season in the park and can often see quickly changing weather patterns. The Lizard Creek Campground provides the perfect location for visitors to GTNP looking to avoid the crowds and who don’t need more than the basic amenities. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground is a popular location for park visitors looking for access to both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks . Hiking is one of the parks’ most popular activities. While no hiking trails leave directly from the campground proper, several trails can be found at Colter Bay located 7 miles south, and in Yellowstone located 8 miles north. Another popular activity at the Lizard Creek Campground is recreating on Jackson Lake. This large alpine lake stretches nearly 7 miles wide and 15 miles long, with a maximum depth of over 400 feet. Water temperatures generally vary from 50-70 degrees during the campground’s season. The campground provides convenient access for trout fishing and canoe/kayak use. Many campers can be found cooling off on the shores of Jackson Lake. Lizard Creek Campground does not have a boat ramp. Boat ramp access is available at Signal Mountain lodge as well as kayake, canoe and motor boat rentals at the Signal Mountain Lodge marina. In addition, Signal Mountain Lodge offers guided fishing trips on Jackson Lake and scenic float trips on the Snake River, contact the Signal Mountain Lodge front desk for more information. Photography and sightseeing are other popular focuses for campers staying at the Lizard Creek Campground. The location provides a unique perspective of the lake and mountains for sunrise and sunset photographs. The area offers numerous great opportunities for landscape and nightscape photography, often with the bonus for wildlife shots. This is a great spot to spend your “rest” day away from the crowds.
Facilities
The campground offers tent camping and pull-in/back-in sites for RVs or trailers up to 25ft. Nearly half of the sites are walk-in tent sites which provide for a more uniquely private and dispersed camping experience than found at other campgrounds in GTNP. The facility is equipped with three conveniently located comfort stations which provide flush toilets and camper sinks. Potable water can be found dispersed regularly throughout the campground. All sites have picnic tables, fire rings and bear-proof food storage boxes. Site parking pads, areas for tents and distance from parking pad to campsites can vary greatly in size. When making a reservation please utilize site photographs and dimensions to ensure a proper fit for your recreational vehicle and party. The campground provides trash collection and recycling receptacles. Campers can find ice and firewood for purchase at the campground office.
Natural Features
The Lizard Creek Campground sits slightly elevated from Jackson Lake on Fonda Point in the northern portion of Grand Teton National Park. Offering sweeping views of the northern Teton Mountain Range; looking south from the lakeshore. It is surrounded by a predominantly lodgepole pine and spruce forest. The campground is frequented by various park wildlife including red fox, coyotes, bears and mule deer to name a few. Often bald eagles and osprey are found perched amongst the lake shore trees as they search the lake waters. To protect the park wildlife and fellow campers, proper food storage is enforced and regularly monitored.
Nearby Attractions
The Lizard Creek Campground offer’s a convenient location to access to both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. The South Entrance of Yellowstone is located only 11 miles north. Leek’s Pizzeria is located 7 miles south and offers indoor and outdoor dining with handmade pizza and sandwich offerings. Colter Bay located 8 miles south offers an expanded grocery store, as well as public showers and laundromat. The town of Jackson, Wyoming is located 55 miles south and offers many dining and shopping options as well as galleries, museums, tourist attractions, movie theaters, medical facilities, auto mechanics, and much more. Not having larger facilities nearby provides for a quieter and slower paced atmosphere than other locations in the park.
Charges & Cancellations
Please see recreation.gov Rules and Reservations Policies page for detailed information. https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies
What the agency tells you
The maximum stay permitted at Lizard Creek Campground is 14 nights, and the maximum cumulative stay between all park campgrounds is 30 nights. A maximum of 2 campsites can be reserved per customer per night. A maximum sliding window of up to 7 days can be reserved beyond the 6 month rolling window. Day of reservations are allowed at this campsite through recreation.gov, but not on a first-come, first-served basis at the campground itself. Discounts must be applied at time of securing reservation.
This is bear country! Food and bear attractants must not be left unattended at any time (ie, coolers, trash, beverage containers, cooking utensils, health and beauty aids, etc.). All food or attractants must be stored in a hard-sided vehicle or in your site’s provided bear-proof storage box when not being consumed or prepared.
Camping accomodations are pet friendly. However, pets cannot be left unattended and are always required to be under control, and on a six-foot leash. Dog runners and pens are not allowed. All pet food and bowls must be treated as a bear attractant and must be properly stored and cannot be left unattended. Please review Campground & National Park Pet Regulations. https://www.nps.gov/grte/planyourvisit/pets.htm
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Check-out time is 11 am, Check-in time begins at 12pm. Quiet hours are enforced from 10pm until 7am.
The maximum length for a trailer or RV is 25 feet. Parking dimensions vary widely at this campground, please take care when making reservations, to ensure that the site you are reserving will accomodate your equipment. Parking is allowed only in designated parking areas or site pads. Moving barrier logs is prohibited. All vehicles must fit completely on parking pads. Vehicles protruding into roadway will not be accepted. If travelling with a trailer or 5th wheel and the combined length of the towing vehicle and trailer/5th wheel is greater than the length of the driveway, the trailer/5th wheel will have to be diconnected in order to fit in the campsite. In these instances, campers must reserve a "Double Driveway" parking spot or a driveway wide enough to accommodate both the trailer and the vehicle.
Generators are permitted, in the first loop only (sites 48-63) between the hours of 8a.m. and 8p.m. and cannot be left unattended.
Maximum one vehicle per site.
Maximum two tents per site.
Maximum of six occupants per site. This rule is strictly enforced, as we are a smaller campground. If you desire to book a campsite that will accommodate larger groups or gatherings of more than 6 people, please explore options at other campgrounds in the area.
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.
Fires may not be left unattended and must be contained within the provided fire ring. Fires may be prohibited based upon local restrictions during seasons with elevated fire danger.
Only dead and downed wood may be collected. Chainsaws are prohibited.
Parking is allowed only in designated parking areas or site pads. Moving barrier logs is prohibited. All vehicles must fit completely on parking pads. Vehicles protruding into roadway will not be accepted.
All sites must be left in a clean and welcoming state for the incoming campers with all fires dead out and fire rings free of bear attractants.
Roadways are narrow at this campground and backing into certain sites can be difficult. Please look at the pictures provided and read all warnings and need to know info about your site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 61 · 27 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 25 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Coast
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Paddling
- Scenic drives
- Water access
- Water sports
- Night sky · 51st darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 24 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 60 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.
Watch for a cancellation
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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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $53 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.
“Please see recreation.gov Rules and Reservations Policies page for detailed information. https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies” · this campground’s own 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 60 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. 60 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.
| Loop 1 | 48 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 34 ft | 464 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 49 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 34 ft | 441 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 50 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 38 ft | 434 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 51 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 38 ft | 400 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 52 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 33 ft | 418 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 53 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 33 ft | 385 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 54 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 55 ft | 447 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 55 | type not stated | 24 ft | 410 ft | ||
| Loop 1 | 56 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 40 ft | 482 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 57 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 40 ft | 466 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 58 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 38 ft | 540 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 59 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 531 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 60 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 32 ft | 604 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 61 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 32 ft | 602 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 62 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 678 ft | $53 |
| Loop 1 | 63 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 36 ft | 667 ft | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 21 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 47 ft | 460 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 22 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 47 ft | 413 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 23 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 70 ft | 427 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 24 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 83 ft | 414 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 25 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 70 ft | 351 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 26 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 46 ft | 315 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 27 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 46 ft | 345 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 28 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 43 ft | 305 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 29 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 43 ft | 262 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 30 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 40 ft | 221 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 31 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 40 ft | 252 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 32 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 45 ft | 178 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 34 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 71 ft | 147 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 35 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 71 ft | 170 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 36 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 70 ft | 209 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 37 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 66 ft | 231 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 38 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 66 ft | 219 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 39 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 23 ft | 249 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 40 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 22 ft | 256 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 41 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 20 ft | 271 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 42 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 20 ft | 290 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 43 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 305 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 44 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 23 ft | 313 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 45 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 342 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 46 | tent only nonelectric | 15 ft | 47 ft | 348 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Loop 2 | 47 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 55 ft | 356 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Main Road | 1 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 18 ft | 835 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 21 ft | 588 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 11 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 24 ft | 547 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 12 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 18 ft | 530 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 13 | tent only nonelectric | 19 ft | 18 ft | 515 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 15 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 136 ft | 425 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 16 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 26 ft | 378 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 17 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 21 ft | 371 ftLizard Creek | $53 |
| Main Road | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 368 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Main Road | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 16 ft | 366 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Main Road | 2 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 18 ft | 848 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 55 ft | 348 ftJackson Lake | $53 |
| Main Road | 3 | tent only nonelectric | 18 ft | 25 ft | 839 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 4 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 17 ft | 731 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 5 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 17 ft | 715 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 6 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 21 ft | 700 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 7 | tent only nonelectric | 23 ft | 21 ft | 697 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 8 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 19 ft | 613 ft | $53 |
| Main Road | 9 | tent only nonelectric | 16 ft | 19 ft | 601 ft | $53 |
25 of 61 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Colter Bay CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 7.2 mi
Headwaters Campground at Flagg RanchJohn D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway · 7.2 mi
Colter Bay RV ParkGrand Teton National Park · 7.2 mi
Colter Bay Marina End Ties7.3 mi
Colter Bay Tent VillageGrand Teton National Park · 7.4 miHeading north from Jackson on US 26/89/191, turn left (west) at Moran Junction. Travel north on US 89/191/287, 18 miles (29 km) to the Lizard Creek Campground sign, turn left (west) into the campground. Heading south from Yellowstone on US 89/191/287, continue 11 miles (18 km) and turn right (west) at the Lizard Creek Campground sign continuing into the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alta, WY
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 1°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
Lizard 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 →