Jenny Lake

A huge thank you to the crew at Jenny Lake Boating! We just completed a research project on Jenny Lake and could not have done it without their help. They were more than eager to let us use their dock and shuttle us back and forth across the lake when needed. The whole team at Jenny Lake Boating was friendly and helpful and I hope to make it back there soon, preferably on a personal trip and not work related.

How does a person who isn’t a robot rate this place less than five stars? It is one of the most beautiful places in the west and indeed the world.

$ 15 round trip per person– price is a little steep but if you’re going just for Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point, it’s worth it.
Shuttle ride came every 15 minutes and was efficient and friendly.
Last boat ride at 7pm

Hidden Falls is easily the best waterfall in Grand Teton National Park. The falls are located on the western side of Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. The shortest route to the falls is to hike around the southern part of Jenny Lake on the Jenny Lake trail. You can expect to see a wide variety of wildlife on the trail. We saw chipmunks, a coyote, several red-​bellied marmots and a wide variety of colorful birds I couldn’t name. The falls are listed at around 100 feet tall, but the cascades go on for miles and the sheer volume of water on the river tops anything you’ll find outside of Yellowstone.
A recent landslide wiped out the lower part of Jenny Lake trail that leads to the falls, so a new trail had to be cut into the side of the mountain. To bypass the landslide, the new trail adds a significant amount of elevation gain to the hike. However, the new trail also offers a birds eye view of the Lake. Most descriptions online put the hike at about 6 miles total roundtrip. We finished the hike in a little under 3 hours. You can shave 2 miles off the hike by taking the ferry across Jenny Lake.
For more adventurous hikers, you can continue up the Cascade Canyon Trail to Lake Solitude. This hike is listed may places online as a daytrip, but at 19 miles round-​trip up a mountain, I would highly recommend spending the night at the lake. Many people say that cascade canyon is the most beautiful area of the Tetons. Next time I’m in the area, I plan on camping at the lake myself.
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I chose to take the ferry on my way to solitude lake. mi thought I had provisioned adequate time to return to the boat, but I was wrong: I missed it by no more than five minutes. Tired, dehydrated, and hungry I called Jenny lake boating to see if icouldn’t possibly get a lift never mind the price. The owner and one of his employees came to get me saving me an arduous twilit trek all by myself.
On the ride back he explained to me how all the other vendors in the park are owned by large businesses. Apparently his is the exception. Keen to support small business and thank him for saving my ass, I offered to pay him a premium on top of my already purchased ticket. Instead he declined the money and offered me a restaurant recommendation.
Save yourself the two hours on the horse trail and give this excellent small business a try. You won’t be disappointed!

We went in July, mid-​day – very crowded, but very accessible and very pretty. So, I readily recommend. We took the boat across the lake, and then hiked the roundtrip 1+ mile to Hidden Falls. Beautiful, and beautiful along the way. I recommend going early in the morning before the crowds descend. We had wanted to make the additional treck/​spur up to Inspiration Point, but I’m not sure if the park service is working on stairs or something, but it was a very steep and slippery ascent to start the side trail to the point.

My hobby is wildlife photography and the park rangers had recommended that i take a hike on cascade canyon on the other side of jenny lake. if you want to avoid hoofing about 3miles over to the other side of the lake there are large boat that will take you across the lake for $ 10 roundtrip and believe me if you are carrying a backpack with photo gear i’ll take the boatride met a few people asking about how much to ride the boat back and its $ 7 dollars one way.
anyways i did the hike and its well worth it because i managed to see two bull mooses, a mule deer and a marmot. To get decent photos you needed a lens in the 200−400mm range. Other than that there is a nice waterfall on the other side and as you walk on the trail you will see cascading waterfalls from the walls

One of the best places I have been to.