Name: Taggart Lake Trail
Rating: 4.7

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Features Birding · Fall Colors · Lake · River/Creek · Views · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Family Friendly Accessed directly from the Taggart Lake trailhead, this loop is perfect for a short family outing with opportunities for wildlife and mountain viewing, and awesome lakeside snacking.

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Circumnavigate the Taggart Lake area on this wide-open trail as the Teton Range continually dominates your views. The trail winds its way through aspen groves, mountain streams, and fields filled with wildflowers. This trail is especially colorful during the fall months due to the large number of aspens, but it's good any time of year!

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Land Manager: National Park Service - Grand Teton National Park

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Tom Robson

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4.7 from 35 votes

#2

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#87

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4.7 from 35 votes

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#2

in West

#3

in Wyoming

#87

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Taggart Lake, from the Taggart Lake Trail.

Jun 13, 2017 near Jackson, WY

Jul 22, 2025 near Jackson, WY

Disappointment Peak, Grant Teton, Teewinot Mountain (from left to right).

Oct 8, 2020 near Jackson, WY

Grand Teton National Park on the Taggart Lake Trail - winter 2015-16.

Aug 7, 2016 near Jackson, WY

Jan 10, 2015 near Jackson, WY

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Sep 16, 2025

Kevin Armour

Taggart Lake is beautiful. Elk bugaling. Followed recommend route counter clockwise. 3.8mi — 1h 48m

Jul 22, 2025

Stewart Carnes

Jun 23, 2025

Christian Torres

Very nice family friendly trail 3mi — 2h 00m

May 29, 2025

Kevin Maher

May 27, 2025

Kevin Maher

Aug 18, 2024

Anonymous

2h 54m

Aug 7, 2023

Levi Roberts

Jul 22, 2023

Devin Radel

Jul 12, 2023

Lisa Matson

May 28, 2023

Josh Grant

May 20, 2023

Chuck Tracy

awesome trail...some snow patches. the lake views of the mountains were beautiful. Even saw a moose.

Aug 17, 2022

Su Jin Kim

Jul 22, 2022

MEGUMI KOSHIGA

Jul 6, 2022

Erica Aduddell

came back via Beaver Creek Trail to make it a loop

Jun 20, 2022

Nicholas Heise

4mi — 1h 57m

May 31, 2022

John Eversmeyer

4.1mi — 1h 51m

May 23, 2022

Mike Patel

May 19, 2022

Peter Rojek

3.8mi

Oct 13, 2021

Patsy Whitchurch

Oct 10, 2021

Estefany Torres

Sep 30, 2021

Gentry Fore

Sep 4, 2021

Michael Sherman

Done - lake was great, plus views

Aug 24, 2021

Gail Kunkle

3.8mi — 10h 30m

Aug 24, 2021

Nick Smith

3.8mi

Jul 28, 2021

Randall Harvey

12:00

Jul 21, 2021

Mason Smith

Incredible place to bust out a book and bask in the sun. Pretty heavy traffic. Solo. — 10h 00m

Jul 20, 2021

Andres Daco

Jul 2, 2021

Ivan Vo

Jun 15, 2021

David Ottney

May 29, 2021

Alexandra BAI

Feb 13, 2021

Jimmy Cole

Snowshoe with JK — 2h 30m

Dec 28, 2020

Rob Amerling

4.2mi

Oct 31, 2020

Tony Ogden

Oct 21, 2020

Kylie Kuhns

Oct 4, 2020

Audie Nicdao

Sep 15, 2020

Jason Kok

Aug 29, 2020

Brenda Michael

2h 15m

Aug 18, 2020

Lou Hibbard

With Jan 3.8mi

Aug 14, 2020

Alyson Mullin

1h 45m

Aug 7, 2020

Shahab Hassani

Nice hike. Part of hike was under shade. If you go counter clockwise you see the lake first 3.9mi — 2h 00m

Aug 4, 2020

Whitney Scott

Jun 28, 2020

AJ Jorg

Jun 27, 2020

Steve McFaul

10h 30m

Jun 25, 2020

Chris Gegg

Jun 20, 2020

Angel Delguy

Mar 19, 2020

Jason Lowe

Sep 21, 2019

Cam Hill

Aug 31, 2019

泓孙

Aug 29, 2019

Tilman Giese

Aug 14, 2019

Kim Reynolds Brackenbury

Jul 11, 2019

Becca DeSalle

Jun 8, 2019

Andrew Bridgeman

It snowed... in June. Great day for a hike and spectacular views

Jun 8, 2019

Colin Campbell

May 30, 2019

Tessa Woods

2h 00m

May 21, 2019

Donna Millette

Round trip- 1/3 snow-trodden trails, time consuming but still a fun hike. — 2h 00m

May 10, 2019

Jackie Wood

Jan 1, 2019

Jason Ursaner

3.8mi

Dec 14, 2018

Morgan Loewith

Deep snow, bring snowshoes 3.8mi

Nov 15, 2018

Dan Browning

Sep 29, 2018

Alexandra Matti-Voss

Aug 26, 2018

Amit Pandey

Aug 12, 2018

Brooks Tellekamp

bull moose 3.8mi

Aug 3, 2018

Evan Pennisi

3.8mi

Jul 5, 2018

C F

Jun 24, 2018

David Gutekunst

Combined w/ Amphitheater lake hike

Jun 13, 2018

Maxx Dillon

Jun 12, 2018

Rick Haines

Easy walk

May 25, 2018

Greg Sinsley

May 22, 2018

Shani Sandler

May 19, 2018

D W

3.8mi

May 18, 2018

Karl Schloer

3.8mi

May 2, 2018

Michael DiMatteo

3.3mi

Sep 30, 2017

Ted Christensen

5mi

Sep 13, 2017

Russ Wise

Sep 9, 2017

Mark Wainner

Hiked to the falls and took a boat back. 3mi

Aug 26, 2017

Peggy Rossmiller

Aug 23, 2017

Eric Godfrey

Jul 30, 2017

Candice Crawford

Hiked to Taggart lake and explored about a mile south and a mile north 4mi

Jun 18, 2017

Brittany Buckner

Jun 14, 2017

Shana Allison

Jun 9, 2017

Greg Gaffney-Bills

Great spot for lunch/dinner! North side of the loop (right from TH), is more scenic, definitely could just do that side instead of full loop next time

Jun 3, 2017

Jenny King Dugan

May 27, 2017

Stacy Swaby

May 22, 2017

Dan H Smith

There was still some snow on the trail but nothing major. Very pretty and one of the easier hikes in the area. Spotted no wildlife on our hike. 3mi

May 13, 2017

Brian OC

Sam, Annie & me

Mar 27, 2017

Matt Culpepper

Snowshoe 4mi

Sep 6, 2016

Amina Lea

Aug 31, 2016

C Bar

Aug 14, 2016

Scott Fadynich

Jul 6, 2016

Tim Rau

Jun 25, 2016

Brett Sabol

Jun 20, 2016

Crystal Burchfield

Jun 6, 2016

Ian Griesbacher

May 24, 2016

Cori Strathmeyer

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“Stunningly beautiful, wide-open trail with the Teton Range right in your face the entire duration. ”

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Dogs No Dogs

Features Birding · Fall Colors · Lake · River/Creek · Views · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Family Friendly Accessed directly from the Taggart Lake trailhead, this loop is perfect for a short family outing with opportunities for wildlife and mountain viewing, and awesome lakeside snacking.

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