Ashton-Flagg Ranch Road, near Yellowstone National Park, is a fantastic spot for those who love the great outdoors and want to experience some dispersed camping. This area offers a mix of solitude and natural beauty, with several campsites tucked away along a well-maintained gravel road.

Each site comes equipped with a picnic table, fire pit, and a pit toilet, making it a comfortable choice for campers. Visitors have raved about the stunning views and the peaceful atmosphere, with one camper noting, “Beautiful drive and views, and the sites are quite secluded.” Just keep in mind that it fills up quickly, so arriving early is key.

The surrounding landscape is a mix of lush forests and open fields, perfect for hiking and exploring. While some campers have mentioned pesky mosquitoes, the overall experience is one of tranquility and connection with nature. If you're looking for a remote getaway, this location is a solid pick. Plus, it's free, which is always a bonus!

Ashton-Flagg Ranch Road

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Great Yellowstone Basecamp just a few minutes from the entrance.

There are a ton of awesome campsites along snake river with about 2 sites per pull-off. Actually, most of these are a little bit more than a mere pull-off. On gmaps, the sites seem to continue all the way on into Idaho. The one we took, we almost missed because as usual, we arrived at nightfall and we turned onto a dark uncertain path with a lone RV parked off to one side, and sure enough, the was an empty space right there waiting for us, complete with trash, toilet, and even a bear box. Each pull-off has 1 toilet and 1 trash, but has a firepit, table, and bear box for each designated camping spot. The river seemed perfect for fishing. I hope to come back one day.

You get a lot here for the low price of free

We drove back 10 miles but pretty sure it went back another 10-15. Great dispersed camping. Roads were well maintained. Drove the pickup back in for tent camping this August. Would recommend for a close spot by Yellowstone National Park. 

Plenty of room back here for free privacy camping

Turn into Headwaters lodge and cabins at Flagg Ranch and take the first right onto Grassy Lake Road.  There are 8 designated camping areas along the snake river heading to Grassy Lake Reservoir each camping area has between 1-4 sites a pit toilet picnic tables and fire rings.  If you keep driving past camp #8 you enter the National forest and you can pretty much camp at any turnout you like- some spots will have nice fire pits but no other amenities.  We ended up out here late on a Thursday night and all the designated sites were taken but we found a great spot to share with some other campers right near Grassy Lake. 

Best Dispersed Camping- beautiful spacious 

Lots of areas, keep driving and you’ll find a nook for yourself

Great!

Once you enter on this road, you’ll start seeing campsites (8 total) and within each campsite, there’s 1-4 spots available. I drove about 7 miles down the road and camped at site 6 which only has 1 spot. I had a vault toilet which was clean &amp; stocked, trash can and bear storage box. It’s very quiet here and you’re surrounded my nature. There was a fire ring and picnic table. No AT&amp;T service so nice to unplug. The road turns into dirt/gravel and is wash board at the beginning but actually got better as I went along (in a camper van).  The only downside of this area are the mosquitos. I don’t mean a few pesky bugs. I mean step outside in long sleeve and pants for 15 minutes and get eaten up with 20+ bites after covering myself in repellant. You might thrive more in a camper but in a van, I like to keep my doors open &amp; that wasn’t an option unfortunately. Wonderful campsites and thankful for it being free with so many amenities! Sites 1-5 are closer to the water and is more open field like with sun. 6-8 is lush forest. No animal activity for me other than a deer and squirrel. 

Can’t get more remote! 

I would give this place 5 stars had it not been for the mosquitos. We were at site #6 in which there was only one campsite at that one (others have multiple sites per parking area). It was perfect for us. Lush forest, a little creek, our own vault toilet and garbage (never had that before), and a large bear box. The mosquitos were a bit pesky when setting up our tent, but we've never let that bother us before. Once settled it seemed to get worse and worse. We sprayed ourselves with OFF, wore long sleeves, pants, hoods, etc., but they were EVERYWHERE no matter what we did. We went to bed early to get away from the mosquitos and had to kill at least 50 in our tent!!
I'm guessing the first handful of sites were better as they were more open and not in thick forest, but don't know. 
We packed up as quick as possible in the morning and enjoyed that our memory of that mosquito place was now in the past!!

Beautiful but those MOSQUITOS!

As many have said, there are about 6-7 spots…some multiple sites per spot some are single but each have a bathroom, fire rings and bear boxes. We traveled in September and those were all full so we had to drive quite a bit (still on Grassy Rd) into Caribou Targhee National Forest. We found an amazing spot but about 30 min down - right in the valley at the start of the reservoir. No bathroom no bear boxes. Primitive. Lots of wooded/shaded area. Private. Beautiful. Road coming in was mostly maintained but some moments of rough terrain but we made it in our 13 ft travel trailer.


Beautiful and great location

There are about 8 camps along this well maintained gravel road, located just outside the south entrance to Yellowstone. Because of this, they were all taken, of course. Some were pretty sizeable but the sign said “1 site” even though you could probably fit two or even three. Each had its own pit toilet. Unfortunately, it’s a burn area so not as pretty as it probably used to be. 

Busy but convenient

Road to camp was closed. Not open for the season yet.

Closed when we came

Road still closed 

Grassy Lakes Road still closed  on 6/10/24

Grassy Lake Disbursed Camp Road Closed

The road opened for the summer about 6 hours before we arrived and camps 1-6 were already full. We pulled in at camp 7 which has 1 site about 7 miles up the road. Each camp has picnic table fire pit and pit toilet, and some have multiple sites. Beautiful drive and views, and the sites are quite secluded, just try to get there early because it fills up quick!

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Ranking down because we couldn’t actually stay here. Arrived at 3pm on a July Tuesday and there were no spots left. Most had been “reserved” by random things people left. Loved the convenience of this space and spots are established with fire rings and pit toilets, just a shame there aren’t more and people block them so early. (Ended up at the paid Sheffield Campground just 6 mins away. $13/night. Plenty of availability and fairly spread out from neighbors. Made a great back up to stay between the Tetons and Yellowstone) 🫣 

Limited Availability 

I stayed about .5 - 1 mile passed the grassy lake road campground site at a pull off, off the main road. Saw a couple spots where ppl did the same so figured why not. Loved that the spot was not too far from the main hwy and also, only about 30 mins from my first stop at Grand Tetons. Oxbow Bend to catch the sunrise 🌅

Quick and easy to get to from main hwy

There are multiple campsites that are shared with 2-3 other campers.  Some of the sites have bathrooms.  The road is a bit bumpy but not to bad and you could drive a regular car on the roads.  The forest is gone though, it looks like maybe it was a few years ago that it burnt down.  There are mosquitoes. 

The forest is gone

I stayed at site 7 it around 8 or so miles down the road, pretty decent gravel road, any car should be fine. The first few spots along the river had multiple sites and no trees due to fire, I recommend keep going down the road. Plenty of better spots with single sites and nobody for miles. There’s clean bathrooms, picnic table, trash and bear box.

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