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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #180 on: April 12, 2018, 06:28:40 PM »
I did something similar to that two years ago, I stayed in Big Sky Montana (flew into Bozeman) drove every other day to Yellowstone (I think it was three times), was not that bad. The Airbnb rentals are a third the price in Big Sky and probably much nicer.

Enjoy Yellowstone, in my opinion, if you are not a hiker and just looking for interesting sites it’s the best national park. We have been trying to replicate that experience since then at other national parks, but were unable to.
Flew in to BZN as well an did the top loop the first day so that I wouldn't need to go back up.

Big Sky is 1+ hours to the edge of the park. From there it's still alot of driving

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #181 on: April 13, 2018, 12:39:14 AM »
I would definitely rather stay near yellowstone - but I have a 5 night certificate and it would be a shame to spend $3-400 a night in yellowstone if i have a free otion. I am flying into BZN on sunday and hope to do the upper loop then. I thought it;s only 2.5 hours from there to JAC - but it sounds like I'm wrong:(

How many days would I need to stay in Yellowstone?

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #182 on: April 13, 2018, 12:41:25 AM »
Google maps shows it's only 1.45 from JAC to Grant Village.

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #183 on: April 13, 2018, 01:17:47 AM »
I would definitely rather stay near yellowstone - but I have a 5 night certificate and it would be a shame to spend $3-400 a night in yellowstone if i have a free otion. I am flying into BZN on sunday and hope to do the upper loop then. I thought it;s only 2.5 hours from there to JAC - but it sounds like I'm wrong:(

How many days would I need to stay in Yellowstone?
I did it in 3 days. But didn't really go into Lamar valley.
Google maps shows it's only 1.45 from JAC to Grant Village.
That's the the Southern most corner you'll need to travel 4 hours round-trip + the distance in Yellowstone....

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #184 on: April 13, 2018, 01:23:13 AM »
Google maps shows it's only 1.45 from JAC to Grant Village.

Google maps goes out the window the instant there's a bear/bison/antelope/moose/whatever jam. And there will be a lot of those.
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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #185 on: April 13, 2018, 08:36:54 AM »
Google maps goes out the window the instant there's a bear/bison/antelope/moose/whatever jam. And there will be a lot of those.
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I made that mistake and ended up in middle of no where when it was pitch black outside give yourself loads of extra time! I actually swipeda Buffalo with my car because  I couldn’t see anything!

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #186 on: April 13, 2018, 10:04:25 AM »
Ok - I guess I should stay Sunday and Monday in West Yellowstone and Tuesday - Thursday at the Marriott in JAC. Though it's driving me crazy to spend about $800 extra on those two nights when I have free nights at the Marriott.

Anyone interested in buying or swapping my extra two nights (two rooms) at the Marriott?

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #187 on: April 13, 2018, 11:32:36 AM »
Ok - I guess I should stay Sunday and Monday in West Yellowstone and Tuesday - Thursday at the Marriott in JAC. Though it's driving me crazy to spend about $800 extra on those two nights when I have free nights at the Marriott.

Anyone interested in buying or swapping my extra two nights (two rooms) at the Marriott?
It shouldn't cost you $400 a night to stay in West Yellowstone or in some of the hotels in the park.

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #188 on: April 13, 2018, 11:47:56 AM »
But didn't really go into Lamar valley.
That's practically criminal. (well assuming you have any interest in seeing Bison)

ETA: got confused with Hayden Valley.
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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #189 on: April 13, 2018, 11:50:29 AM »
That's practically criminal. (well assuming you have any interest in seeing Bison)
We saw bison in many places including in Hayden Valley

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #190 on: April 13, 2018, 11:54:19 AM »
We saw bison in many places including in Hayden Valley
Oops, you're right, I stand corrected. I got my valleys mixed up there for a minute. Missing Hayden valley would be criminal.

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #191 on: April 13, 2018, 11:55:37 AM »
That's practically criminal. (well assuming you have any interest in seeing Bison)

We saw bison in many places including in Hayden Valley

I've seen many people get confused by the two. Hayden is the more accessible one (between the lake and the canyon), where there are huge wildlife concentrations in the summer. Lamar is the more remote of the two (waaay out of the main loops), whose claim to fame are the wolves in the winter.

Lamar is mostly skippable in the summer.

ETA: @whYME types faster than me.
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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #192 on: April 13, 2018, 12:04:56 PM »
Lamar is mostly skippable in the summer.
FWIW, a ranger once told me that the best place to see bears is usually the road from Mammoth spring towards Lamar Valley, between Mammoth springs and the road going down to Hayden etc

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #193 on: April 13, 2018, 12:07:14 PM »

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #194 on: April 13, 2018, 01:41:30 PM »
And there will be a lot of those.
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The few times I've driven that stretch of road I didn't see more then a squirrel.

Regardless, 1:45 seems kinda ambitious and the best case scenario and as others have pointed out that's basically the very beginning of the park, you still have quite a ways to go until whatever it is you actually want to see.

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #195 on: April 13, 2018, 01:43:25 PM »
FTFY :)

LOL

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The few times I've driven that stretch of road I didn't see more then a squirrel.

You must have the most rotten luck on the planet then ;D
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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #196 on: April 13, 2018, 02:08:26 PM »
Oops, you're right, I stand corrected. I got my valleys mixed up there for a minute. Missing Hayden valley would be criminal.
I've seen many people get confused by the two. Hayden is the more accessible one (between the lake and the canyon), where there are huge wildlife concentrations in the summer. Lamar is the more remote of the two (waaay out of the main loops), whose claim to fame are the wolves in the winter.

Lamar is mostly skippable in the summer.

ETA: @whYME types faster than me.
I did the full loop touching Lamar Valley, that was the quietest Rd in Yellowstone. It was somewhere in the Tower junction that I saw my only Wolf in Yellowstone and some bears pretty far off the Rd.
LOL

You must have the most rotten luck on the planet then ;D
I didn't see as many Bison as I thought I would. And based on what we heard from others they didn't see the packs either during my stay...

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #197 on: April 18, 2018, 02:25:56 PM »
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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #198 on: June 07, 2018, 05:57:28 PM »
Woman gored by bison after crowd gets too close

Another reminder to be careful around the animals

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Re: Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park
« Reply #199 on: June 11, 2018, 06:05:46 PM »
I will be flying into JAC on sunday in august, and have 4 complete days there, top hikes? top things to see? TIA