Hotels and Tourist Camps of Yellowstone National Park
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Since before the creation of Yellowstone National Park
in 1872, entrepreneurs have established hotels and permanent tourist camps to accommodate visitors to the park. Today, Xanterra Parks and Resorts
operates hotel and camping concessions in the park on behalf of the National Park Service
. This is a list of hotels and permanent tourist camps that have operated or continue to operate in the 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...
in 1872, entrepreneurs have established hotels and permanent tourist camps to accommodate visitors to the park. Today, Xanterra Parks and Resorts
Xanterra Parks and Resorts
Xanterra Parks & Resorts is a privately-owned United States park and resort management company based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, controlled by entertainment magnate Phillip Anschutz...
operates hotel and camping concessions in the park on behalf of 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...
. This is a list of hotels and permanent tourist camps that have operated or continue to operate in the park.
Mammoth Hot Springs area
- Wylie Hotel, Gardiner, MontanaGardiner, MontanaGardiner is a census-designated place in Park County, Montana, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 851 at the 2000 census....
- McCartney's Hotel, 1871–79, Clematis Gulch
- Cottage Hotel, 1885–1921, operated by Walter and Helen Anderson.
- National Hotel, 1883–1903
- Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, 1903 to present, previously known as the National Hotel, Mammoth Hotel and Mammoth Motor Inn
Norris
- Norris Hotel, 1886–87, 1901–1917, built and operated the Yellowstone Park Association
Lower Geyser Basin
- Marshall's HotelMarshall's HotelMarshall's Hotel, subsequently known as the Firehole Hotel was the first public accommodations built in the Firehole River geyser basins of Yellowstone National Park and among the earliest tourist hotels in Yellowstone. The first hotel was built in 1880 by George W. Marshall and his partner John B...
, 1880–1891, built by George Marshall, later operated as the Firehole Hotel 44°34′39"N 110°49′49"W - Fountain Hotel, 1891–1916, built by the Yellowstone Park Association near Fountain Paint PotsFountain Paint PotsThe Fountain Paint Pot is a mud pot located in Lower Geyser basin in Yellowstone National Park.The Fountain Paint Pot is named for the reds, yellows and browns of the mud in this area. The differing colors are derived from oxidation states of the iron in the mud. As with all hot springs, the heat...
, 44°33′15"N 110°48′16"W
Upper Geyser Basin
- Old Faithful InnOld 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...
, 1904 to present. Designed by Robert ReamerRobert ReamerRobert Reamer was an American architect, most noted for the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. Reamer was born in and spent his early life in Oberlin, Ohio. He left home at the age of thirteen and went to work in an architect's office in Detroit as a draftsman...
, 44°27′35"N 110°49′49"W - Old Faithful LodgeOld Faithful LodgeOld 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...
, 1923–present, designed by architect Gilbert Stanley UnderwoodGilbert Stanley UnderwoodGilbert Stanley Underwood was an American architect best known for his National Park lodges. Born in 1890, Underwood received his B.A. from Yale in 1920 and a M.A. from Harvard in 1923. After opening an office in Los Angeles that year, he became associated with Daniel Ray Hull of the National... - Old Faithful Snow Lodge
- Shack Hotel, 1885–1903, located at the present site of the Old Faithful Inn next to the Wylie Camp
Canyon
- First Canyon HotelCanyon HotelThe Canyon Hotel was built in Yellowstone National Park in 1910 by the Yellowstone Park Company to accommodate visitors to the area of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone Falls. The hotel was built on a huge scale, with a perimeter measurement of one mile. Situated on a hill to the...
, 1886–1891. Temporary structure. - Second Canyon HotelCanyon HotelThe Canyon Hotel was built in Yellowstone National Park in 1910 by the Yellowstone Park Company to accommodate visitors to the area of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone Falls. The hotel was built on a huge scale, with a perimeter measurement of one mile. Situated on a hill to the...
, 1891–1911, incorporated into the third Canyon Hotel. - Third Canyon HotelCanyon HotelThe Canyon Hotel was built in Yellowstone National Park in 1910 by the Yellowstone Park Company to accommodate visitors to the area of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and Yellowstone Falls. The hotel was built on a huge scale, with a perimeter measurement of one mile. Situated on a hill to the...
, 1911–1959. Designed by Robert Reamer. 44°43′24"N 110°29′56"W - Canyon Lodge Hotel
Tower Roosevelt
- Yancey's Pleasant Valley Hotel, 1884–1903, operated by John F. YanceyJohn F. YanceyJohn F. Yancey also known as Uncle John Yancey was a Yellowstone National Park concessionaire who operated Yancey's Pleasant Valley hotel near Tower Junction in Yellowstone from 1882 until his death in 1903.-Early life:Very little is known about John Yancey's early life in Kentucky, although it is...
, 44°55′46"N 110°25′17"W. - Roosevelt LodgeRoosevelt Lodge Historic DistrictThe Roosevelt Lodge Historic District comprises the area around the Roosevelt Lodge in the northern part of Yellowstone National Park, near Tower Junction. The district includes 143 buildings ranging in size from cabins to the Lodge, built beginning in 1919. The Lodge was first conceived as a field...
, 1919 to present, 44°54′47"N 110°24′56"W
Lake
- Lake Hotel, 1898–present, designed by Robert Reamer, 44°32′59"N 110°24′00"W
- Lake Lodge
Permanent Tourist Camps
- Shaw and Powell Permanent Camping Company
- Created by Amos Shaw and J. D. Powell, Shaw and Powell operated mobile camps on one year leases from the Department of Interior from 1898 until 1913 when they were granted a ten year lease for seven permanent camps.
- Locations at Shaw Powell Camp (Willow Park), Shaw Powell Camp (Gibbon Falls), Shaw Powell Camp (Nez Perce Creek), Shaw Powell Camp (Old Faithful), Shaw Powell Camp (Canyon), Shaw Powell Camp (Little Thumb Creek), Shaw Powell Camp (Bridge Bay)
- Wylie Camping Company
- The Wylie Permanent Camping Company was created by William Wallace Wylie, a Bozeman, MontanaBozeman, MontanaBozeman is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The 2010 census put Bozeman's population at 37,280 making it the fourth largest city in the state. It is the principal city of the Bozeman micropolitan area, which consists...
school superintendent with a two year lease in 1893. - The camps, nicknamed the Wylie Way were locationed at Wylie Camp (Lake), Wylie Camp (Lost Creek) (1906- precursor to Camp Roosevelt), Wylie Camp (Canyon), Wylie Camp (Old Faithful), Wylie Camp (Riverside), Wylie Camp (Sleepy Hollow), Wylie Camp (Swan Lake Flats)
- The Wylie Permanent Camping Company was created by William Wallace Wylie, a Bozeman, Montana