Best Route from Boise to Grand Tetons with a Travel Trailer?

Will be heading from Boise to Grand Tetons in early June and was wondering best route to go for scenic drive while pulling travel trailer. Will probably spend the night somewhere near Arco and try to see Crators of the Moon area unless someone has better idea. Will be driving from whereever we stop to Colter Bay the next day. Lots of roads from Pocatello or Idaho Falls to Jackson--any preferences pulling a trailer? Thanks for help.

JQ

Best Route from Boise to Grand Tetons with a Travel Trailer?

pulling a trailer over teton pass would be extremely hard, as it is steep, really steep. you can go south a bit from swan valley and go around to jackson, it is by a lake (forget the name) and through alpine.

see if there is a place to camp near or on site of craters of the moon, as arco isn%26#39;t the place to camp. we have always heard the people are green, it is the first city to be lit by atomic power...i hold my breath from arco, to idaho falls. after arco, you go through the inel, the nucular power plants...eeekkk.

from idaho falls to swan valley is so beautiful, gentle ups and downs, with passing lanes. from there to jackson is easy. enjoy

Best Route from Boise to Grand Tetons with a Travel Trailer?

Thanks Charlie,

I don%26#39;t see Teton Pass yet or know which hwy it is on or whether I have a choice? As for route to take, are you talking about Hwy 26 past Palisades Resivoir to HWYs 89 and 191 into Jackson? If so, Hwy 26 is okay?

If we camp one night around Craters, I will have to hold my breath until morning, huh?

JQ

craters is far enough away, the air is good!!ha yes , your route around the reso is good, and THE only other way.

Craters is OK, nothing compared to the Sawtooth Valley. The most scenic route, without doubt, would be Boise to Banks through the Sawtooths/Stanley and over to Arco. You get to follow the Payette River and Salmon River of No Return past some amazing mountains. I have pulled a trailer over Teton pass, its not that bad, not to mention gorgeous.

We have been thru the Sawtooths,I75, I93 on way to Glacier several years ago, without a trailer.

We have also stayed one night and looked around Crater many years ago on our way to Yellowstone.

We just want to make sure we can get into Colter Bay before its too late in the evening. So it looks like we will stick with this plan unless we hear about something better.

Thanks for the help. See you in Boise(Nampa) on May 27th.

JQ

lovetherockies,

we don%26#39;t know how large their trailer is . i go over about once a month to JH and i get nervous going down the pass each time. i am a mountain woman, but the pass still gets me.

Hi Charley,

My s-i-l has lived in Nampa for 35 years or more, so we have been up there a few times. Saw a little of the country around there and Silver City. Also came thru there to Glacier one time and to Yellowstone twice. Hopefully, we will get up that direction more now that my wife is retiring. I%26#39;m ready to go now!!!

Looks like you like to hang out on a couple of other threads? Significance? My son has a time share at Poipu Beach which we got to use a couple of years ago plus a week up at Prinville.

JQ