Shadow Mountain Dispersed Camping

Hard to beat the views. Road is pretty rough and many of the sites are not at all level. You must stay is designated sites. No toilets except for the one at the south entrance, before heading up. Road is very rough. Might be treacherous if wet.  I visited in mid-October. Thursday night was fairly open /unoccupied. I stayed in #4. Fairly level. Beautiful views of Grand Teton. The FS was doing prescribed burns so it was pretty smokey for a while. Friday night started checking out sites at about 4 pm. A lot of the good sites were taken (e.g., #9 and #10), but ended up at #17. Nice and level but right next to the main road. Only a couple vehicles passed by so wasn't bad. Great views of Mt. Moran. Sites #18 and #19 were still unoccupied in the morning.

Such a sweet spot. We arrived on a Sunday around 3pm and landed site #14. There’s a big shady tree in the middle and the site backs up to forest, beautiful views of the Tetons. Site is well sized but not level and in our sprinter we struggled to find a comfy spot and adjusted 18479294 times and even with leveling blocks we never really nailed it. The next morning we moved to site #9 as it was open on our way down to adventure and we quickly moved our stuff over. This site is gold. A big flat circle with 360 degree views. Zero bug issues end of august, just the normal expected amount but we didn’t need bug spray or our zap light, nothing harassing or attacking us. Would definitely return and hope for site 9. The road up shadow is definitely bumpy but really not as bad as we anticipated, very doable in the appropriate vehicle. I wouldn’t want to be in a big rig or be towing something huge but our Mercedes sprinter handled it like a dream and we saw a lot of people towing small rigs and pop ups without issue.

This place has Disney World level crowds. The camp sites are mega crowded and the road is in deplorable condition. It has an absolutely fantastic view of the Tetons but over all I’d say just find somewhere else to go. Absolutely not conducive for privacy in any way whatsoever.