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An imagined scene of Bridger-Teton National Forest
Imagined scenePhotorealistic landscape photograph at golden hour in Wyoming's Wind River Range: high bare granite peaks with small remnant glaciers above an alpine basin of clear tarns and green meadows, scattered rock and stunted timber, warm raking light and long shadows, quiet Greater Yellowstone backcountry, no people, no buildings, no signs. 35mm lens, natural color, faint film grain.
National Forest · WY

Bridger-Teton National Forest

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The place

Bridger-Teton sprawls across more than three million acres of western Wyoming, one of the largest national forests in the lower 48. It wraps around the south and east sides of Grand Teton and Yellowstone as part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -- one of the last big, mostly-intact wild landscapes left in the country. This is serious high country: glacier-hung granite peaks in the Wind River Range, the sagebrush foothills above Jackson Hole, three vast wilderness areas, and the headwaters of some of the West's great rivers. If you want room to disappear, there's a lot of it here.

History

The forest carries two famous names. 'Bridger' honors Jim Bridger, the legendary mountain man, trapper, and guide who knew this corner of the Rockies as well as anyone in the fur-trade era. 'Teton' comes from the Teton Range, the sawtooth peaks on the forest's western edge. The two halves -- the Bridger National Forest and the Teton National Forest -- were managed separately for decades before being combined into a single Bridger-Teton National Forest in 1973. Long before any of that, this was homeland and hunting ground for the Shoshone, Crow, and other tribes, and the high passes here were part of the routes that first drew trappers and explorers into the northern Rockies.

Wildlife & plants

This is grizzly country -- Bridger-Teton is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the few places in the lower 48 where grizzlies still roam -- along with black bears, gray wolves, and mountain lions (you'll see far more of their sign than the animals themselves). The valleys and foothills hold some of the largest elk herds in North America, plus moose, mule deer, pronghorn, and bighorn sheep up on the high rock. Trumpeter swans, bald eagles, and ospreys work the rivers and wetlands. Anglers come for the Snake River fine-spotted cutthroat, a trout found almost nowhere else in the world, swimming waters that native cutthroat have held since the ice age.

Notable features

The Bridger Wilderness runs up the west slope of the Wind River Range, beneath Gannett Peak -- at roughly 13,800 feet the highest point in Wyoming, straddling the Continental Divide on the boundary with the neighboring Shoshone National Forest. The Wind Rivers cradle the largest glaciers in the American Rockies, though most of that ice sits just across the Divide on the Shoshone side. The forest also holds the headwaters of the Green River and, up near the Yellowstone line in the Teton Wilderness, some of the source waters of the Snake. Two Ocean Pass, the Gros Ventre Slide, and the rhythmic Periodic Spring near Afton are all here -- see the fun facts.

Camps are sourced from public U.S. Forest Service recreation data and have not been personally visited. Roads shown are Forest Service passenger-car routes (maintenance level 3–5) and may be seasonal or gated. Always confirm access, fees and fire rules with the ranger district before you go. Found a fee where we show free? Tell us on the contact page.