Teton Canyon
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $17–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2013 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Teton Canyon Campground is located in beautiful Teton Canyon at an elevation of approximately 6,500 feet. Driggs, Idaho is just 11 miles away. Hiking, backpacking and horseback riding are popular activities in this scenic region. Keep reading
Recreation
The towering Teton Range and Jedediah Smith Wilderness are adjacent to the canyon. Excellent hiking, backpacking and horseback riding opportunities abound, with trails leaving from the campground. A horse staging area is located at the trailhead parking area. Teton Creek runs alongside the campground. Fly-fishermen love casting for brook and Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
Facilities
This newly-renovated campground contains several campsites, each equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring, grill and food storage locker. Two equestrian sites are available for those camping with horses. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided but there is no electricity. Some first come, first served sites may also be available. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground is situated along Teton Creek, with partial views of the nearby Teton Range. A dense forest of pine, spruce and fir covers half of the campground, providing nice shade. The other half of the campground is more open, with aspens and pines dotting the summer wildflower-filled meadows. A variety of wildlife makes its home in the area, including moose and deer. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (541) 351-1182.
Nearby Attractions
Popular activities in the area include the Teton Valley Summer Festival over the Fourth of July in Driggs, complete with a hot air balloon festival, parade, rodeo, bike races and antique and craft booths. Grand Targhee Resort is nearby and hosts outstanding annual music festivals: Targhee Fest is in mid-July; Targhee Bluegrass Festival is in mid-August. The resort also offers lift-served hiking and mountain biking, scenic lift rides, guided horseback riding, a climbing wall and an 18-hole disc golf course. A disc golf tournament is held annually in late July. Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks are both within a few hours drive.
What the agency tells you
Wildlife Caution
Idaho OHV Safety Message
Campground is located in Wyoming but the only access is through Idaho
Everything else this campground posts · 6
A $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day
Please bring reservation confirmation to the campground
This campground has first come, first served sites
Click here for more information on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
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
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 9 of 10 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…available for those camping with horses. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…camping with horses. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided but there is no…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 217th darkest of 248 in WY
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 15 km away
- Past peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 13 of the 20 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
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“A $8 fee extra vehicles will be collected at the campground per day” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $17–$34 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 27 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 27 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. 20 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 006 | type not stated | 225 ft | 372 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 007 | type not stated | 269 ft | 281 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 010 | type not stated | 523 ft | 123 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 014 | type not stated | 559 ft | 93 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 015 | type not stated | 692 ft | 146 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 021 | type not stated | 671 ftTeton Creek | 204 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 022 | type not stated | 746 ftTeton Creek | 290 ft | $17 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $17 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $17 | ||||
| TETO | 001 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 131 ft | 418 ftTeton Creek | 126 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 102 ft | 278 ftTeton Creek | 202 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 89 ft | 189 ftTeton Creek | 283 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 004 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 95 ft | 293 ftTeton Creek | 228 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 89 ft | 201 ftTeton Creek | 296 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 276 ft | 376 ft | 146 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 427 ft | 217 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 517 ft | 245 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 151 ft | 452 ft | 308 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $17–$34 | |||
| TETO | 017 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 135 ft | 629 ft | 295 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 131 ft | 466 ftTeton Creek | 11 ft | $17–$34 |
| TETO | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 135 ft | 569 ftTeton Creek | 160 ft | $17–$34 |
The agency files 7 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Reunion FlatTarghee National Forest · 1.6 mi
Jenny Lake CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 10 mi
Gros Ventre CampgroundGrand Teton National Park · 16 mi
Mike HarrisTarghee National Forest · 16 mi
Trail CreekTarghee National Forest · 16 mi
Signal Mountain Campground16 miFrom Driggs, Idaho, travel 9 miles east. Turn east at the Key Bank on Little Avenue and follow the road to the forest boundary. Turn right on Forest Road 009 and continue 4 miles to 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 May night 36°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 36°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Teton Canyon 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 →