Let's Keep Our Trails Beautiful Together!
Friends of the Bridger-Teton helps maintain and support more than 2,000 miles of trails on the fifth-largest national forest in the U.S. With 3.4 million acres of breathtaking landscapes, the Bridger-Teton National Forest (BTNF) offers endless adventures.
Recreate Responsibly
While you enjoy all that BTNF has to offer, please recreate responsibly. Your actions help preserve this important resource for future generations.
Join Us in Our Mission
The U.S. Forest Service alone can’t keep up with all of the maintenance and work the BTNF’s trail network requires. We need everyone to pitch in and partner with us to preserve the forest’s stunning landscapes and resources. Whether it’s through donations, volunteering, or spreading the word—every bit helps.
Support Our Trails Today
The Bridger-Teton National Forest is a special place. A donation to Friends of the Bridger-Teton helps us continue to keep it that for future generations.
Learn more at btfriends.org.
Let’s do this together!
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On April 1, the Bridger-Teton National Forest proudly announced a long-awaited upgrade: WiFi across all 3.5 million acres. After months of “field testing” (and a few lost routers), staff have mapped out tower locations to keep you connected from trailhead to summit.
The crown jewel? A hotspot on top of Gannett Peak—because nothing says wilderness like checking your notifications at 13,810 feet. Early estimates suggest it’ll cover a whopping 10 square miles, give or take a wandering cloud.
By summer, you’ll be able to post, scroll, shop, and check scores from just about anywhere in the forest. Spot a moose? Post it. Catch a fish? Livestream it. Forget why you came outside? We’ve got you covered.
Where should we put the next tower?
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Though mud can be fun stuff to slide and stomp through, hiking or biking on muddy trails destroys both the trails and the surrounding land. As a valued land steward, you can help keep trails healthy and happy.
When people encounter muddy trails, they often try to walk or bike around the mud. This act widens and erodes the trail. It turns beautiful single-track trails into wider, less beautiful ones. It also tramples fragile plants and soils that may never recover.
Plowing right through muddy puddles can seem like a better option. On less trafficked trails, it is. But on trafficked trails it doesn’t help. Footprints create ruts and depressions. Bike tire treads create even deeper ruts and depressions. If ruts form on slopes, which they tend to do, they become chutes or channels for water that erode and destroy trails and require serious trail maintenance and resources to repair.
If you head out for a hike and encounter mud, please turn back. Staying off muddy trails keeps them and surrounding plants happy and healthy.
If you need to walk past a small patch of mud on trail, walk through it, not around it.
When it freezes at night, another option is to go hiking first thing in the morning, when mud is still frozen.
Happy mud season!
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Karen Daubert is a Best Friend of the BTNF because it is so large and varied. Read more in this week's Jackson Hole Daily.
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Positions are available on the Greys River and Kemmerer Districts.
OHV Recreation Patrollers serve as public-facing stewards of responsible off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on the BTNF. This is a non-enforcement position focused on education, outreach, data collection, and light trail maintenance. Patrollers work closely with USFS staff while remaining employees of FBT and help supplement Forest Service capacity during peak summer OHV use.
Learn more about the job, including how to apply in the link in our bio.
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How much do you know about mule deer? Native pollinators? If you can't make it to our JH Chamber Mixer, how about this? We're partnering with Melvin Taproom & Kitchen and Wyoming Outdoor Council to host what we think might be a first-ever: A trivia night focused on mule deer and native pollinators.
Team sign-up begins at 5:30 pm and trivia starts at 6 pm. Don't miss it!