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 60+ 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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You can easily turn your visit to Grand Teton into an Epic Road Trip! In just 5-10 days, you can see the best Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Geysers, wildlife, canyons, stunning peaks and recreation galore!
For an even more amazing trip, add the historic and fun Mount Rushmore & the Black Hills (add 4-7 more days) or the stunningly beautiful Glacier National Park (add 3-5 more days). We have guides available for each of these locations that not only include great itineraries and audio guides, but also include the best routes and things to do along the way. Planning a big road trip couldn’t be more simple.
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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 22 years ago. 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 10,000,000 views and have sold over 12,000 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 preservation and donate 5% of the proceeds of your purchase to the Grand Teton National Park Foundation to ensure access and enjoyment to future generations.
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 (closest international airport) Yellowstone, or several other places. We give lots of transition ideas.
You can order the days in whichever is the 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 back up 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 your leave.
There is no shuttle system in Grand Teton so you will need a car.
The road 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.
If you are interested in a longer road road trip (we believe you can see Grand Teton and Yellowstone in 5-8 days) adding Yellowstone is an excellent idea! It’s only 2 hours away!
For longer, Glacier and the Black Hills is 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.
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. When you purchase a guide, you have access to 18 months of free updates.
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 as needed, but write the concepts to intentionally be as timeless as possible. 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 for up to 18 months after purchase.
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 up to 18 months. We generally send an email announcement when we do an update as well.
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.
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My husband and I just returned from a week in GTNP (August 2024). Having Matt and Cheryl’s itinerary was absolutely priceless! All the tips and advice they provided helped us experience the park in the most enjoyable and stress-free way. We purchased the full Teton itinerary as well as the Jenny Lake itinerary and the audio guide. So well worth the price!!
My family of four travelled from the Seattle area with another family of four in July 2024. This guide was the #1 reason we had a wonderful time. There are so many turnoffs, viewpoints, and other points of interest in the park – the guide helped us focus on the best places to spend our time.
Matt and Cheryl’s guides made planning our trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone so much easier than me trying to plan it all myself. We really felt like we had all the “local” knowledge to know what our family would enjoy, and what we could maybe skip over and use our time on another activity. We spent a lot of time driving, and Matt’s audio guides were very interesting and informative in the truck. I would highly recommend using these guides and plan on buying one for every trip when we go West!
Our trip to Grand Teton was definitely made better with your guide as a resource. We also used Yellowstone and Badlands later on the same trip. Thanks for all you do!
With the help of Matt and Cheryl’s guides and their fantastic YouTube videos, our family had an amazing trip to Grand Teton and Yellowstone in July. The Grand Teton guide was so helpful, and it was flexible enough to fit what worked best for our family. We pieced together days from both their Grand Teton and Yellowstone itineraries, and we had the best trip! Since we were doing both parks, we stayed on the north side of Grand Teton for most of our trip, which added some drive time but was easier for us than moving around each night with three young kids. This also allowed us to alternate days of adventures in the Tetons with sightseeing days on Yellowstone’s lower loop. The details in the Grand Teton guide on how to do Jenny Lake were especially helpful, and the maps in Matt and Cheryl’s guides are the best! We got an early start most days, and we always felt ahead of the crowds by following their itineraries. We didn’t have any major problems with unbearable crowds, parking, or traffic, despite being there in July. It was amazing! The audio guide was excellent also, I listened to it multiple times before our trip, and knowing about the history of the park made it more enjoyable once we were there. Thank you Matt and Cheryl for helping us have an amazing trip!