[DumOleBob]

Yesterday I took our dogs for a stroll in the Atherton Creek Campground (now closed for the winter) and thought about how much this group might enjoy this terrific place! If you’re coming towards Jackson Hole, Grand Teton & Yellowstone NP consider Atherton Creek.

Atherton Creek is a US Forest Svc campground, recently revitalized and greatly improved. It is a hosted campground with a nightly fee ($12 I think), so it isn’t pure boondocking, except there are no hookups. And there are no services within 20 or 25 miles. Water is available from spigots in several places, but I don’t know you could fill up a RV tank.

This is one of the nicest Forest Svc campgrounds you’ll find! Located close to Grand Teton National Park, directly on the shore of Slide Lake, it has a new boat ramp, pit toilets, new gravel roads, new picnic tables, fire pits and wide, spacious camping pads! I think big rigs would be A-ok here although the Forest Svc web site says maybe not. That’s because they’ve not updated the web site since they did all the improvements. Go figure! Anyway, I've seen some BIG motor homes towing stuff in there.

Boating, fishing, wind surfing, kayaking and canoeing on the lake is great, but this isn’t a large cruising lake, like Jackson Lake. The views all around are wild and fantastic, including the beautiful ranch on the south shore. Most every pad has a view of the lake. All along the almost 40 mile length of the Gros Ventre River Road you’ll find fantastic hiking. biking & OHV riding.

The rest of the good news is during the summer Atherton Creek is very seldom full. Maybe on holidays, but that’s about it. Most times when I pass by it isn’t a third full. Occasionaly no one but the host is there! It is a few miles east of Grand Teton National Park up the Gros Ventre River, which I think is the most beautiful place in all of Jackson Hole – including the Tetons themselves.

In Google Earth search: Campground: Atherton Creek, WY

If you’d like more info on boondocking in and around Jackson Hole I’d be happy to help!