Our itinerary works if you’re visiting Grand Teton for one, two, three, or four days (and even longer). You can re-order days as needed to fit your plans.
You can’t fail with our easy-to-follow instructions, including destinations, arrival times, and 70+ images and maps to keep you on course.
Our plan provides an efficient way to see the park, hitting places at the right times in the right order.
We help you see the best views of the Teton mountain range, and help you arrive at the best wildlife-viewing spots at the right times to increase your chances of seeing moose, bison, antelope, and bears.
We have strategies to help you enjoy more wildlife and scenery and spend less time looking for a parking spot.
Our guide eliminates hours of planning and costs a fraction of what a tour costs.
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Hey, We’re Matt and Cheryl and we are on a mission to help people have amazing vacations. Not only do we write easy-to-follow itineraries, but we love to share interesting stories in our audio guides about all of our favorite places!
We live in Utah, just four hours away from awesome national parks like Zion and Yellowstone, and have spent our lives exploring the West and the Rocky Mountains. We often travel with both sets of our retired parents (they like each other!) and our four teenagers (who like to travel…sometimes).
We met in a history of Utah class at Weber State University and tied the knot in 2002. Matt worked for Social Security and taught adjunct history classes at our alma mater. Cheryl taught special education for 28 years and continues to volunteer by teaching a weekly dance fitness class.
We took a shot at our dream in 2020 and started making YouTube videos about the national parks we know so well. We now have over 20 million views and have sold over 24,000 guides. We are delighted to help travelers fulfill dreams of their own!
We love trying out all the activities and working with local experts to give the best, most up-to-date travel advice out there.
At We're in the Rockies, we believe in education and donate 5% of the proceeds of your purchase to the Gene Sessions History Scholarship to make education affordable to future park rangers and history teachers.
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Sure. If you have extra time, additional activities are listed in the guide. But we do recommend visiting Yellowstone if you have 5 or more days to travel. Glacier or the Black Hills are also great to add on to this trip.
You can begin your adventure from Salt Lake City, UT (the closest international airport), Yellowstone, or several other places. We give lots of transition ideas.
You can order the days in whatever way is most convenient for you.
Even though this guide works for travel mid-May through September, remember weather in Grand Teton is a bit unpredictable, and an early or late snowstorm can really affect your travel.
Our favorite time to visit is early September because the leaves are beautiful. If you like white-water rafting, June-August are great times. Just avoid Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends.
We love Grand Teton and have done practically everything both inside the park and in the surrounding areas.
We travel with both sets of our retired parents and our 4 kids (who are now teens), so we have a pretty good radar on the interests of most types of travelers.
We recommend what we believe are the absolute best spots in the park and give backup options for longer hikes or things that cost.
We give star ratings and approximate prices to help you decide which activities are the best value for you!
We are of the mindset that you have a plan, so you can be flexible.
We lay out what we believe are the best activities for your time and money, but we all have different preferences.
Because each activity listed has a star rating, approximate time frame, and cost, you’ll easily be able to adjust to best suit your group’s interests.
We surveyed our customers and they reported that our guides saved them 10-20 hours of trip planning research, on average.
Although much of the information included in this guide can be found with significant research, this guide combines what you need to know into one place and it is from a source committed to giving you the best information.
This guide cost us over $11,448 to create when you combine travel expenses, map creation, and formatting. In addition, we have spent hundreds of hours visiting this park and doing additional research. The audio guide alone was over 100 hours of labor (but of course, a labor of love!)
Many of our travelers enjoy the confirmation that they have already created a good plan and may even find a thing or two to add to it.
Other travelers may find that our plan is similar to what they had already pieced together on their own.
If you’ve already spent hours planning, you may not find maximum value in this guide.
Yes! We travel with our 4 children and both sets of our parents. Although not every activity is for everyone, there are always backup suggestions.
We write these guides so all the work you should need to do is obtain your lodging and reservations. We include maps, the time needed to complete drives and activities, and lodging recommendations. We put boxes throughout the guide indicating it’s an item that you will need to take care of before you leave. We also give links to websites we think you should check before you leave.
There is no shuttle system in Grand Teton, so you will need a car.
The roads are mostly paved or very packed dirt and are passable in a regular vehicle.
Yes. We give approximate time frames that are needed to complete an activity. The schedule is generally not so packed that you have to be a quick traveler. But if you know you generally need more time, you can make adjustments. If you are quick, there are suggestions for additional activities.
This is a digital download, so it will be EMAILED to you. That way, you can have access immediately and have the option to download it to any device you want.
Many travelers, including us, prefer to print the itinerary and take it with us as we travel.
The itinerary and audio guide are available immediately upon purchase, right on this webpage. You will also receive an email within 30 minutes with download links in case you need to revisit the links and download the items later. If you don’t receive your email, check your junk mail folder. If it’s not there, contact mattandcheryl@wereintherockies.com, and we’ll be in touch with you within 1 business day. Also, the guides will be available in your account if you choose to establish one (we highly encourage it).
You need cell reception to download the audio guides. Once they are downloaded, no cell reception is needed.
Most people download the audio guides to their phone before they leave.
Just in case you are wondering, an average audio guide takes 150 MB of storage space.
Yes! If you are interested in a longer road trip (we believe you can see Grand Teton and Yellowstone in 5-7 days), adding Yellowstone is an excellent idea! It’s only 2 hours away!
We have created a Yellowstone + Grand Teton Bundle that includes the itineraries and audio guides for both parks, plus a road trip overview document that shows how to connect the two parks together with great sites along the way. This bundle offers a significant discount and is recommended if you are visiting both parks. Click here to view this guide.
https://wereintherockies.com/yellowstone-and-grand-teton/
For a longer trip, Glacier and the Black Hills are also great.
We have guides for all of these and offer an automatic discount. 10% off when you purchase 2 guides, 20% off when you purchase 3 or more.
If you are only visiting Grand Teton National Park, this is the only guide you need. If you are also interested in visiting Yellowstone, we recommend the Yellowstone + Grand Teton Bundle. It will give you full itineraries and audio guides for both parks and includes an Overview that shows you the most efficient way to see both parks together and the best routes depending on which airport or direction you are coming from. Plus, it’s cheaper than if you were to buy each of the guides individually.
If you are doing an even bigger trip, just email us at mattandcheryl@wereintherockies.com and tell us where you want to go. A real human will email you back within one business day.
National parks constantly change, including timed-entry requirements, construction, fires, and closures. To keep you updated on the most current things going on, we have a Parks Updates page that we update every week with important information. We recommend you look at this as soon as you begin planning your trip, as well as a few days before you leave.
Guides are automatically updated to the latest version when you create an account.
In addition to that, we also send an email notification out when a guide is updated. Just make sure to stay subscribed to our email list so we can reach you.
Because the download is a PDF file, you can do it on any device: computer, iPhone, Android, tablet, etc.
Stuff like this happens. We get it.
If you created an account, just log in again and download your guides.
If you didn’t create an account or forgot your password, just email us and we can resend your links.
For step-by-step instructions (including pictures), check out our Help With Downloads page.
If you still need help, reach out to us at mattandcheryl@wereintherockies.com. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible to help. We’re even happy to jump on a phone call with you if needed.
This guide is meant be used mid-May through September. Although Grand Teton is open year-round, it does receive snow in the winter and many of the roads and trails are seasonally closed.
Yes!! We update our guides at a minimum of once a year. We encourage you to purchase the guide as soon as you know you will be traveling. It will help you determine which areas to stay and how many days to obtain lodging. Upon purchase, you’ll be guided to create an account on our website. If we update the guide, it will automatically show in your account. Your purchase comes with free guide updates for life.
It is not required, but is HIGHLY recommended. We encourage you to create an account when purchasing the guides because you’ll have access to the links at any time.
You will have access to the updated guide through your account (another reason to create an account) for life. We generally send an email announcement when we do an update as well.
We believe that once you buy a guide from us, you should be able to use it to visit a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time.
If you created an account, just log in and download your guide again.
If you didn’t create an account, just email mattandcheryl@wereintherockies.com and let us know you want us to resend your guide links.
We put approximate price ranges on all our activities so you know what to expect. The good news is that many things in this guide are free once you pay for entrance into the national park!
Although we do suggest some hikes, we offer plenty of alternatives if hiking is not desirable, including viewpoints and drives.
When the audio guide is available, here’s what you’ll need:
If you need technical support, check out our help with downloads page. If you are still struggling, you can email us at mattandcheryl@wereintherockies.com.
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This helped me so much when planning our Grand Teton trip. I love the audio guides. They really supplement the material. I would buy all my guides from We’re in the Rockies.
It was our first time going to the Tetons and we had no idea where to go. We used this guide the whole time and it took us to all the best places to see. The audio guide was awesome and we loved listening to it while we drove around the park.
We used our Grand Teton guide last week during a trip with our daughter’s family. The 28-page guide provided more and better information than we received from the Travel Company we had used to “plan” our trip. The audio guides provided a lot of interesting additional information as well. Loved getting some of the historical background. We would certainly order your guide for any other trip we might take out West. Thanks for your efforts and expertise.
My family of 4 ( 2 teenage boys) visited Grand Teton National Park and we could not have done it without our “We’re in the Rockies” guide! It gave us a plan to begin with and we worked from there. I loved how the guides break down what you should see based on how many days you are at the Park. In addition, the little tips provided were so helpful as well and really made a difference. Finally, I cannot go without mentioning the audio chapters that came along with the guides! They brought an added level of knowledge to our trip, and we thoroughly enjoyed them on the drives. Thank you Matt & Cheryl! I am so glad I found you!! Now, onto the Mighty 5!
This guide is exceptionally helpful! Matt’s audio is top notch, and this helps you make the most of limited time. They give enough detail to help you decide what stops you’d like to do, hikes that you can handle, etc. I think without this guide I would’ve probably just driven around with no direction and thought yeah it’s pretty here. But with the guide I had a plan for the day and a half: where to drive, where to take a hike, where to eat, where to get the best photo opportunities! Amazing!!!!!
My family did a big 3-week National Park loop last summer. It was so much work to plan and organize, more so than any other vacation I’ve ever taken. I cannot imagine how much worse it would have been if I’d had to figure out all of it on my own. This guide was priceless to simplify that process, narrow down the best things to do, and especially to know how many days I needed at each place so many months in advance so I could book lodging in time. We had a wonderful stay at Signal Mountain Lodge (great laundry facilities!) and my kids still talk about white water rafting. If I’m planning a future trip that “We’re in the Rockies” has a guide for, I’m definitely going to buy one again. These guides made my life so much easier, and my family of 4 had a great trip we will never forget.
Dear Matt and Cheryl,
I live in Colorado Springs, CO. I just returned from a 17 day road trip with my family (husband and 2 boys – 11 and 14) and parents, when we visited Jackson, WY, Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone, West Yellowstone, Cody, and the Black Hills (Rapid City, Custer, Custer State Park, Mt. Rushmore, and everything in between). I have been planning this trip for 3 months. I came across your site, watched a ton of your videos, and decided to buy your guides – I bought Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Black Hills. And they were the best investment I made in this entire trip. The guides are phenomenal. We used them and followed them almost exactly, adapting here and there according to our personal preferences or weather, or circumstances. There is clearly so much thought put into every single one of them. I had it color printed and binded, and even though that added to the cost, I am very glad I did. I carried it everywhere. The maps, the star system, the detailed descriptions and personal details. These guides are just incredible. We also LOVED LOVED LOVED the audio guide. We felt Matt was traveling with us, and we often would say: “do you guys want to listen to Matt?” just to get a unanimous “YES”. It was one of the most educational trips we have done, and it is thanks to you guys. I honestly feel that we will now make decisions of where to travel to based on the question: “does Matt and Cheryl have a guide for that place?” That is how much we loved them.
Thank you so much and congratulations on a terrific job. You guys are now our traveling companions!
I usually won’t purchase a travel guide if I can borrow one from the public library. However, after watching Matt and Cheryl’s YouTube videos and reading their blog posts over the past few months, I purchased their guides for destinations we plan to visit this summer—the Grand Tetons and the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Matt and Cheryl’s guides far surpass the typical travel guide. They offer practical advice, such as how to avoid getting stuck in traffic or long waiting lines, the best time of day to find parking at crowded sites, their favorite museums, and where to find the best eats.
Matt and Cheryl keep all age groups in mind. They offer tips for travelers on a limited budget (good picnic spots, cheap ways to enjoy the view from a lodge where the price of a meal may be off the charts, a favorite ice cream shop) as well as those who can afford more expensive options. They also offer lots of fun ideas for families with children.
I love their practical tips, their personal stories, and lessons they’ve learned from visits at different times of the year. For example, if you’re planning to visit the Black Hills, be prepared for a lot of patriotism. If you want to watch the sun rising on the Tetons, they suggest the best spots plus how to plan ahead so you’ll reach your viewing spot on time. These kinds of tips make all the difference between an unforgettable experience and one that ends up in disappointment.