Firehole Village was a proposed visitor services development in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park, established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho...

, planned to divert development away from the sensitive area around Old Faithful. The project was proposed under the Mission 66

Mission 66

Mission 66 was a US National Park Service ten-year program that was intended to dramatically expand Park Service visitor services by 1966, in time for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Park Service....

 program, which sought to improve visitor services and park infrastructure throughout the National Park Service

National Park Service

The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...

 system. Although Firehole Village was never built, it was complemented by projects at Grant Village

Grant Village

Grant Village is a developed area of Yellowstone National Park, offering lodging, camping and other visitor services. It is located on the southwest side of Yellowstone Lake, about south of West Thumb...

 and Canyon Village, both of which were partially executed. The Firehole Village project, initially named "Wonderland," envisioned the demolition of the Old Faithful Inn

Old Faithful Inn

-Sources:*Barringer, Mark Daniel. Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002. ISBN 978-070061167-3...

, Old Faithful Lodge

Old Faithful Lodge

Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone National Park is located opposite the more famous Old Faithful Inn, facing Old Faithful geyser. The Lodge was built as a series of detached buildings through 1923 and was consolidated into one complex by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood in 1926-27...

and other development in the Old Faithful area, restoring the area to a more natural appearance. The new development was planned for the area of the Lower Geyser Basin. First proposed in 1955, the Firehole Village plan was finally abandoned in 1964.