Reimagining the Taggart Lake Experience

The Taggart Lake Trailhead, a popular year-round trailhead, serves as a starting point for a range of visitor opportunities including hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, biking, and backcountry camping. A trail system leading to picturesque lakes at the base of the Teton Range lends itself to beginner-level and family-friendly excursions, while also providing access to more remote experiences that require higher-level skill and self-sufficiency. The park's non-motorized multiuse pathway, which is open spring, summer, and fall, goes past both Taggart Lake Trailhead and nearby Cottonwood Creek Picnic Area. In the winter months recreationists predominately use Taggart Lake Trailhead when the Teton Park Road is closed to motorized vehicles and groomed between Taggart Lake Trailhead and Signal Mountain Lodge.

Year-round visitor use at the Taggart Lake Trailhead has increased in the past 10 years and the existing facilities, including the trail system to Taggart Lake, do not adequately support quality year-round visitor experiences and have led to negative impacts to resources, visitor experiences, and park operations. Roadside parking in designated and undesignated areas on the Teton Park Road potentially impacts scenic driving and the ability for visitors to park and transition to the trailhead. The Reimagining the Taggart Lake Experience planning effort focuses on improving resource conditions and opportunities for high-quality visitor experiences through improvements to year-round parking and facilities, accessibility, the summer trail system, shoreline destinations, viewsheds, wayfinding, and interpretive information.

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A virtual public informational meeting will be held during the public comment period. This page will be updated when the meeting date and time is announced.