Hotels and tourist camps of Yellowstone National Park

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McCartney's Hotel, Clematis Gulch, the 1st hotel in Yellowstone. Built in 1871

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.

Hotels

Mammoth Hot Springs area

Mammoth Hotel, ca 1913

• Wylie Hotel, Gardiner, Montana
• McCartney's Hotel, 1871–79, Clematis Gulch ^[1]
• Cottage Hotel, 1885–1921, operated by Walter and Helen Anderson.^[1]
• National Hotel, 1893–1904, Changed name to Mammoth Hotel in 1904.^[2]
• Mammoth Hotel, 1904-1936, Changed name to Mammoth Springs Hotel and Cottages.^[2]
• Mammoth Springs Hotel and Cottages, 1939-1965, Changed name to Mammoth Motor Inn.^[2]
• Mammoth Motor Inn, 1966-1977, Changed name to Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.^[2]
• Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, 1978 to present.^[2]

Norris

Norris Hotel, 1887^[3]

• Norris Hotel, 1886–87, 1901–1917, built and operated the Yellowstone Park Association

Lower Geyser Basin

Fountain Hotel, ca 1910

• Marshall's Hotel, 1880–1891, built by George Marshall, later operated as the Firehole Hotel 44°34′39″N 110°49′49″W / 44.57750°N 110.83028°W
• Fountain Hotel, 1891–1916, built by the Yellowstone Park Association near Fountain Paint Pots,^[4] 44°33′15″N 110°48′16″W / 44.55417°N 110.80444°W^[5]

Upper Geyser Basin

• Old Faithful Inn, 1904 to present. Designed by Robert Reamer, 44°27′35″N 110°49′49″W / 44.45972°N 110.83028°W
• Old Faithful Lodge, 1923–present, designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood
• Old Faithful Snow Lodge
• Shack Hotel, 1885–1903, located at the present site of the Old Faithful Inn next to the Wylie Camp

Canyon

Third Canyon Hotel, ca 1912

• First Canyon Hotel, 1886–1891. Temporary structure.
• Second Canyon Hotel, 1891–1911. incorporated into the third Canyon Hotel. 47°43′19″N 110°29′20″W / 47.722°N 110.489°W
• Third Canyon Hotel, 1911–1959. Designed by Robert Reamer. 47°43′19″N 110°29′53″W / 47.722°N 110.498°W
• First Canyon Lodge, 1920's-1957. 47°42′54″N 110°29′42″W / 47.715°N 110.495°W
• Second Canyon Lodge, 1958-Current. Mission 66 era structure. 47°43′59″N 110°29′20″W / 47.733°N 110.489°W

Tower Roosevelt

• Yancey's Pleasant Valley Hotel, 1884–1903, operated by John F. Yancey, 44°55′46″N 110°25′17″W / 44.92944°N 110.42139°W.^[6]
• Roosevelt Lodge, 1919 to present, 44°54′47″N 110°24′56″W / 44.91306°N 110.41556°W

Lake

Lake Hotel, 2010

• Lake Hotel, 1891–present, 1903 adaptation and addition designed by Robert Reamer, 44°32′59″N 110°24′00″W / 44.54972°N 110.40000°W
• Lake Lodge

West Thumb

• Grant Village

Permanent Tourist Camps

Wylie's Swan Lake, ca 1900

• Shaw and Powell Permanent Camping Company^[7]
  • 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.^[8]
  • 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, Montana school superintendent with a two year lease in 1893.^[9]
  • The camps, nicknamed the Wylie Way were located 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)

Further reading

• Waite, Thornton (2006). Yellowstone by Train-A History of Rail Travel to America's First National Park. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Inc. ISBN 9781575101293.
• Whittlesey, Lee H. (2007). Storytelling in Yellowstone-Horse and Buggy Tour Guides. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826341174.
• Whittlesey, Lee H.; Watry, Elizabeth A. (2009). Ho! For Wonderland-Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826346162.

Notes

1. Culpin, Mary Shivers (2003). "Appendix E - Timeline of Concessioners in Yellowstone National Park". For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: A History of Concession Development in Yellowstone National Park-1872-1966. Yellowstone National Park, WY: Yellowstone Center for Resources. pp. 126–132.
2. Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Historic Structures Report. A&E Architects. March 2015.
3. William L. Lang, ed. (1981). F. Jay Haynes-Photographer. Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 144. ISBN 0917298047.
4. Whittelsey, Lee H. (Winter 2003). "Music, Song, and Laughter-Yellowstone National Park's Fountain Hotel, 1891-1916". Montana Magazine of Western History (Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press) 53 (4): 63–65.
5. Coordinates derived from map location in "The Marshall/Firehole Hotel Underwater Archeology Project". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
6. "Pleasant Valley". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
7. Vivian A. Paladin; S. Rose Shaw (Summer 1972). "Yellowstone Park by Camp: Shaw &Powell Camping Company". Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society) 22 (3): 94–101. JSTOR 451771.
8. Paladin, Vivian A.; Shaw, S. Rose (Summer 1972). "Yellowstone Park by Camp". Montana Magazine of Western History (Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press) XXII (3): 94–101.
9. Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park. II (Second Revised ed.). Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. pp. 134–141. ISBN 0870813919.