Yellowstone, Grand Teton & Jackson Hole Road Cameras

Northwest Wyoming holds the two parks most people drive a long way to see — Yellowstone and Grand Teton — plus Jackson Hole and the high passes that connect them. It's also the corner of the state where the calendar matters most: interior park roads close to cars for half the year, mountain passes get gated for avalanche control, and the route that's open in July is buried in snow in January. Before you commit to the drive, it helps to actually see the road, and the Wyoming WYDOT camera map puts the state's official road cameras into one fast, searchable view, sourced from WYDOT's 511 system at wyoroad.info.

This guide is built around the destination — the parks, Jackson Hole, and the passes that reach them — and the seasonal closures you have to plan around.

The highways that reach the parks

Almost every approach to the Tetons and Yellowstone funnels through a handful of corridors, and WYDOT cameras cover the Wyoming portions of all of them:

• US-26/89/191 into Jackson Hole — the valley's main artery, running north past the airport and the Grand Teton entrances toward Moran Junction.
• Snake River Canyon (US-26/89) — the low, non-pass route into Jackson from Alpine on the Idaho line, hemmed against the river through a narrow canyon.
• Hoback Canyon (US-189/191) — the southern approach up from Pinedale and Bondurant, meeting US-89 at Hoback Junction.
• Togwotee Pass (US-26/287) — the eastern gateway from Dubois over the Continental Divide into the valley.
• US-14/16/20 from Cody — the eastern run to Yellowstone's East Entrance over Sylvan Pass.

On the live Wyoming camera map, the Jackson / Teton and Cody / Yellowstone area chips group these together so you can scan the whole region at once.

Yellowstone: the interior roads close to cars in winter

This is the single most important thing to plan around: most of Yellowstone's interior roads close to wheeled vehicles for the winter, typically in early November. From roughly mid-December into March, those same roads open to oversnow travel only — guided snowmobiles and snowcoaches — not cars. They then reopen to regular vehicles in phases through April and May, weather permitting, with the higher and more remote segments (like Dunraven Pass and the road to the East Entrance) among the last to open.

A few specifics worth knowing:

• The only road open to cars year-round runs from the North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana, through Mammoth Hot Springs to the Northeast Entrance at Cooke City. Everything else inside the park is seasonal.
• The South Entrance (US-89/191/287, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway from Jackson) and the East Entrance from Cody over Sylvan Pass (about 8,520 ft) both close to cars in winter.
• The Beartooth Highway (US-212) beyond Cooke City is its own seasonal road, typically open only from late May to mid-October.

WYDOT's cameras cover the Wyoming highways leading to the entrances, not the roads inside the park — for in-park gate status and opening dates, the National Park Service is the authority. Use the Wyoming map to judge the approach drive, then confirm whether the park road itself is open.

Grand Teton: plowed in part, gated in part

Grand Teton stays more accessible in winter than Yellowstone, but it has its own seasonal pattern:

• The outer highway (US-26/89/191) through the park is plowed and stays open year-round, carrying through traffic between Jackson and Moran.
• The inner Teton Park Road — the scenic road past Jenny Lake — closes to vehicles between the Taggart Lake Trailhead and Signal Mountain from about November 1 to April 30, becoming a groomed multi-use path for skiing and biking in the off-season.
• The Moose-Wilson Road, the narrow connector toward Teton Village, closes from roughly November 1 into mid-May and sees construction-related delays in some seasons.

If you're aiming for the inner park in shoulder season, check the dates before you go — the main highway being clear doesn't mean the Teton Park Road is open.

Teton Pass and Togwotee Pass

Two passes define winter travel in and out of Jackson Hole, and both have WYDOT cameras under the Jackson / Teton chip:

• Teton Pass (WY-22) climbs to 8,431 feet between Jackson and Victor, Idaho. It's steep and seriously avalanche-prone — the Glory Bowl slide path runs right onto the road — so WYDOT closes it on winter mornings for avalanche control, sometimes for hours. It's the fast way to the Idaho side, but it is not a road to gamble on in a storm.
• Togwotee Pass (US-26/287) tops out near 9,655 feet on the Continental Divide between Moran Junction and Dubois. It's a long, high, snowy crossing that draws snowmobilers all winter and ices over quickly in the shoulder seasons.

For either one, check the summit camera before you start up — conditions at the top routinely differ from the valley you're leaving. If you're connecting to Idaho over Teton Pass, the Washington WSDOT cameras are worth a look further along a westbound trip too.

Winter and shoulder-season driving

• Plan around the closures first. Knowing a park road or pass is gated saves a wasted drive long before road conditions matter. Confirm Yellowstone and Grand Teton dates with the National Park Service, and pass status with WYDOT.
• Check the pass summit, not the town. Teton and Togwotee can be clear in Jackson and whited-out at the top.
• A dry-looking road near freezing is often ice on these high crossings. Tap a camera's nearby road-weather (RWIS) station to pair the image with temperature and surface status.
• Snake River Canyon is the low-elevation alternative when Teton Pass is closed for avalanche work — slower, but it avoids the high summit.
• Watch for wildlife through Grand Teton and the Gros Ventre and Snake River bottoms, especially at dawn and dusk.

How to use the map

The Wyoming camera map is built for quick checks before a park trip. Tap an area chip like Jackson / Teton or Cody / Yellowstone to jump to the region, search for a highway number or town such as Moran, Dubois, or Hoback, and star the cameras you check most — a pass you cross often or the approach to your entrance — so they're saved on your device and load with one tap. Open any camera for a larger image with nearby weather. Because park roads and passes here are governed by season and avalanche control, the cameras are a real-time gut check, not the final word: always confirm in-park openings with the National Park Service and pass closures with WYDOT at wyoroad.info or by dialing 511 in Wyoming.

Planning a wider trip?

If your route to the parks crosses state lines, the all-states road camera map lets you check the whole drive in one place. Coming up from the south through the Wasatch, the Utah UDOT cameras cover the approach toward the Wyoming line — so you can string together a multi-state run to Yellowstone and the Tetons from a single, fast map.