Description: It's hardly the most beautiful peak in the park, but then again, you can drive up it. We were looking for a nice early evening activity after checking in at nearby
Signal Mountain Lodge on our last night in Teton, before heading back through Yellowstone and onto Montana.
We headed south from the Lodge for about a mile and a half to the start of Signal Mountain Road. The two paved lanes gently climb 800 feet over 5 miles, with multiple but easy switchbacks (even so, trailers and RVs aren't allowed). It was a really pleasant trip under the forest canopy nearly the whole way, with the fading sunlight sneaking through. Every now and then, we'd get a peek back west to the Tetons or south toward Jackson Hole. After about 15 minutes, we found ourselves approaching the top of 7,600-foot Signal Mountain.
We first came to an overlook toward the south. Leaving our car in the deserted parking lot, we took the short trail to the southernmost bluff, where we found a
great view of the Tetons and Mount Moran.
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Getting back in the car, the road took us to the summit, with a panoramic eastern look out at the valleys.
There aren't many places here where you can get a mountaintop vista without doing the climbing yourself—this is one of them. Coming near sunset probably didn't help the mosquitoes (I wish we'd had insect repellant), but we still stayed for a while to enjoy the quiet.
If you like earning your vistas, there's also a 4-mile hiking trail (separate from the road) that leads more directly to the top.
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