Boating season on Jackson Lake screeches to a halt this weekend

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — That’s a wrap for summer boating on Jackson Lake as all marinas in Grand Teton National Park servicing the lake will close this Labor Day weekend.

Grand Teton visitors and boaters will continue to experience impacts to recreational activities, including earlier than normal closures of lake marinas due to the extreme drawdown of Jackson Lake. Very low natural flows and the need to supplement downstream reservoirs has Jackson Lake drawn down to levels only seen three times in the last thirty years.

Park concessions with marina facilities, Grand Teton Lodge Company and Signal Mountain Lodge Company, have modified operations in accordance with lake level changes. The Signal Mountain and Leek’s Marinas will close for the season on Monday, September 6. The Colter Bay Marina closed for the season on August 14. Boaters should also expect that park boat ramps on Jackson Lake will become unusable.