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Gros Ventre River at Kelly, WY
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The Gros Ventre on the map
Full interactive map →Showing the Gros Ventre (centerline via OpenStreetMap). The full interactive map currently covers the Snake & Hoback.
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Launch sites and float details for the Gros Ventre are not on this site yet. The Gros Ventre runs through the Bridger-Teton National Forest and Grand Teton National Park: check with them for access, rules and current conditions before you go.
Bridger-Teton National Forest →Grand Teton National Park →Emergency
In an emergency, call 911.
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Wyoming Game & Fish Area 1 · license required · seasonal closures protect winter range; check before access.
Trout: NPS / C. Adams, Grand Teton National Park, public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
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The river
The Gros Ventre is the valley’s slow story. It drains the range of the same name through red-rock badlands, pools behind the 1925 landslide as Lower Slide Lake, then runs past Kelly and through Grand Teton National Park to meet the Snake south of the park. Low gradient and braided, it is more a fishing-and-wildlife river than a whitewater one, best known for elk, bison and big skies.
History
Named for the Gros Ventre people. In 1925 a massive landslide dammed the river overnight, forming Slide Lake; two years later the dam failed and flooded Kelly, killing six. It remains one of the West’s defining natural-disaster stories, still visible as a scar on Sheep Mountain.