Grand Teton National Park · Wyoming
Gros Ventre Campground — how to get a site when it's sold out
Overview Gros Ventre (pronounced ‘grow-vont’), means “big belly” in French, and the Gros Ventre Campground—surrounded by cottonwood trees and featuring stunning views of Blacktail Butte and the Teton Mountains—is truly magnificent! The campground’s location next to the Gros Ventre River offers some of the best opportunities in the park for wildlife sightings, as bison, moose, mule deer and a wide variety of birds are known to frequent the area. For avid anglers, the Gros Ventre River offers plentiful cutthroat trout, brook trout, and whitefish.
Booking Gros Ventre Campground
Sites at Gros Ventre Campground are reserved through Recreation.gov. Sites here can be reserved in advance through the official system, and they are claimed fast — cancellations then trickle back all season, unannounced, at any hour of the day or night.
Site facts
| Total sites | 322 |
|---|---|
| Site types | Standard, Group |
| Hookups | Electric hookups at some sites |
| Location | Kelly, WY |
| Book through | Recreation.gov |
| Official listing | Recreation.gov |
The cancellation play at Gros Ventre Campground
Because sites are booked months ahead, a steady share of reservations get cancelled as trips fall through. Each cancellation instantly returns that site and those nights to the official calendar — first-come, first-served, no waitlist, no announcement. Refreshing the booking page yourself, every few minutes for weeks, works in theory. In practice, the people who get these sites are the ones who hear about the opening first.
ItOpened scans the Recreation.gov calendar for Gros Ventre Campground around the clock. When a site matching your dates and your vehicle opens, you get a text with a direct link to it. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell — your fee pays for monitoring, and openings are first-come, so speed is the whole game.
Other campgrounds in Grand Teton National Park
| Colter Bay Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
|---|---|
| Headwaters Campground at Flagg Ranch | Cancellation alerts available |
| Colter Bay RV Park | Cancellation alerts available |
| Signal Mountain Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Colter Bay Tent Village | Cancellation alerts available |
| Jenny Lake Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Lizard Creek Campground | Cancellation alerts available |
| Colter Bay Marina End Ties | Cancellation alerts available |
Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Site facts come from the official directory listing for Gros Ventre Campground; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.