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Robert Sihler

1 year ago
3/5

Campsite: Grand Teton Climbers’ Ranch — Grand Teton National Park

I stayed here three nights recently. It's a cool place and in a great setting with nice amenities, and it totally beats the stress of the overcrowded campgrounds and the outrageous lodging prices.

However, unless you go to sleep easily and are a deep sleeper, it's not a great place to sleep. As some other reviewers have noted, people come in at all hours of the night, and even if they're trying to be quiet, the creaky floors negate those efforts.

People leaving really early also seem to make no attempt to minimize the noise they create. One person actually left the cabin door open, shining light into the cabin.

But the biggest issue is the lack of privacy. I stayed in a similar locale in Pinedale, but the bunks were basically crates closed on both ends and with a curtain you could draw across laterally for privacy. So you could read a book or watch a show without the glare intruding on other people's rest, and the teenage girl sleeping across from me wouldn't have been so on display to the middle-aged men in the cabin. How awkward-- my own 16 YO daughter would have been creeped out.

It would be really easy and cheap to implement similar privacy measures. And maybe there should be a gate at the road entrance that gets locked at, say, midnight, so that people can't barge in at 3 a.m. and wake others up. Or at least don't provide check-in info for people arriving that late, requiring them to sleep in their cars instead.

I'd stay there again, but that's because of the dollar value, and I'd bring an extra sheet or curtain to create additional privacy.

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