Red Rock Pass

This is a great free spot with an easy drive to Yellowstone. We arrived on a Sunday and the area was already almost full. I was expecting it to clear out by Monday but everyone stayed. You can drive up and down the road and probably find a location to squeeze in if needed. We were able to get the last open spot and had plenty of room for our 43' fifth wheel. It was a little muddy and could get slippery if there is more rain. It didn't cause us any problems but got the fifth wheel and truck very dirty.

We were able to get 6Mbps download with AT&T and a little less with T-Mobile. The throughput was low but was enough to stream TV although it was grainy. AT&T proved to be a little more reliable than T-Mobile. Phone calls were fine.

We pulled in late & parked pretty close to the road in an open field next to a fire ring. We could see more spots in the road but since it was late, we didn’t see any other campers (Mon night) & the road seemed quiet we just set up in a convenient spot for a small fire.

It was a bit windy but easily blocked by the van. We heard quiet a few animal noises through the night (cows mooing, elk bleeting, raccoons climbed on top of our van in the middle of the night) but very little road traffic & didn’t even notice another RV in the woods several hundred feet away until we left.

There are LOTS of places to camp here & further down the road if you’re so inclined. Easy access, good cell reception. We showered at the nearby State Park for $3/each- hot & private but crappy nozzles.

We stayed here 4 nights. It was close to Yellowstone. Most people park right off the main road but if you make a left after all those RVs (you will see a bunch of electrical boxes with a square fence surrounding it - it's slightly hidden but this is the best indicator I can give you) there is a dirt road the leads past all the electrical boxes and there are a ton of private very pretty campsites hidden back there. My only complaint is that we parked too close to the road and the cows would come by everyday and poop everywhere. I wish I had known about those hidden campsites in the back before we unhitched and setup.

We were here for 3 nights 5/13-5/16/2019. Nobody else in this area the whole time. We drove the loop all the way around Henry Lake, beautiful. We were in our class A 34.4'long. The area we chose was pretty level, but had to approach it from the road at an angle due to a small sharp slope. We didn't drag at all,but we saw where others had, probably due to taking it head on. It looks to be used as pasture for cattle during part of the year, but no cattle present at this time, just dried up cow pies.

This is a fantastic site to use to explore the west side of Yellowstone National Park. There are several spots immediately off the road. The spots can fit any size RV. The road coming in is paved and it is a short jaunt through some grass/dirt to get to the spots. We were able to find a nice spot right behind a tree that was level and had a fire pit. The fire pit and a sign about bears was about the only indication we could camp here. There was no one else there when we arrived, but it did get more crowded on the weekend. Also, it seemed some people would set up camp during the week but then abandon it until the weekend. We stayed in the spot for almost 2 weeks in late June/early July. We went into West Yellowstone and filled up with water at Yellowstone Grizzly RV park that allows you to fill up for free! You can dump here too, but it is $10-$15 to dump. We went back several times with jugs to fill up and never had a problem. There is a city dump station about 10 miles down the road (away from West Yellowstone) that costs $5 to dump so we dumped there on the way to the next stop. Despite the weekend activity, the campsite was quiet, and we met some great local campers. We had great internet access with 4-5 bars of 4G LTE with AT&T. At this spot we were about 25 minutes to the West Yellowstone entrance which was perfect. We spent several days exploring the park. Would recommend exploring as early as possible as the park gets ridiculously crowded by lunch time. You can get most anything you need in nearby West Yellowstone if you didn’t bring it with you. On a more personal note, my husband had a heart attack while we were staying here and the EMTs and police of West Yellowstone were amazing and helped us get through the traumatic experience. I would have been a wreck without their help and support. I thank them!

RED ROCK PASS
Easy access, level, fairly close to a road (not too busy). The best thing was that it was only a 25-30 min drive to the West entrance of Yellowstone National Park.
On Fri night there were 9 or 10 other campers.
Quiet - there were children next to us but I didn't hear them all night.
And yes there were plenty of mooing bovines passing back and forth but were no bother; they only provided moving critters for our cats to watch.
About 3 miles from the access road, we saw a fine male moose, highlighted against the rising sun.
Not sure about cell service as we didn't even try to use it.

I stayed here 4 nights. If I left after the first 2, I'd give it 5 stars. I arrived Monday night and found a spot tucked into some trees, which was clean, basically level, secluded, quiet, and wonderful. I loved it. It was exactly what I was looking for. Even the Verizon and TMobile signals were happily useful LTE (not the best I've had but good; streaming worked and everything).

By wednesday afternoon, I began to notice an uptick in traffic coming up and down even the side road I was down. The noise increased. Enough other campers came in and setup right by me that I pretty much lost all semblance of great privacy I was enjoying, and they began running generators regularly throughout the day/evening. And the internet became progressively slower. By Thursday night and Friday morning, I couldn't rely on internet at all (I ended up driving into Rexburg to get on a conference call requiring internet for work, because I couldn't even browse the web any more, let alone do streaming activities).

Maybe I was just there on the wrong week. It looked like more than a couple of big get together were just getting started as I left Friday morning. So I only docked it one star for the bad experience. It would have easily been 5 in my book otherwise, and I'm assuming this kind of multiple big get-togethers don't happen every week (a couple had signs and everything, so I bet they were some special thing going on).

Basically, if you get here and it's not too busy, this spot can be awesome, though. Fairly easy to get a spot that's reasonably level enough (some of you might use the levelling blocks and all to get it just right in some spots, but I wouldn't expect it to be to bad in most beyond that). Views aren't particularly amazing, but it's still a pretty area.

Cows. There are cows. But they're just cows. I didn't go a day without seeing some guys on OHVs having fun, but I wouldn't complain about them at all. It wasn't a bother.

Hopefully everyone else has generally better luck than I did on this one! I'm keeping it in mind to try again in the future, hoping for that better luck myself. Maybe I'll get to come back and revise this with less negativity about it.