Hotels and tourist camps of Yellowstone National Park explained
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
- 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, 1886–87, 1901–1917, built and operated the Yellowstone Park Association
Lower Geyser Basin
Upper Geyser Basin
Canyon
- First Canyon Hotel, 1886–1891. Temporary structure.
- Second Canyon Hotel, 1891–1911. incorporated into the third Canyon Hotel.
- Third Canyon Hotel, 1911–1959. Designed by Robert Reamer.
- First Canyon Lodge, 1920's-1957.
- Second Canyon Lodge, 1958-Current. Mission 66 era structure.
Tower Roosevelt
Lake
West Thumb
Permanent Tourist Camps
- Shaw and Powell Permanent Camping Company[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 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
- Book: Waite, Thornton . Yellowstone by Train-A History of Rail Travel to America's First National Park . Pictorial Histories Publishing Inc. . Missoula, MT . 2006 . 9781575101293.
- Book: Whittlesey, Lee H. . Storytelling in Yellowstone-Horse and Buggy Tour Guides . University of New Mexico Press . Albuquerque, NM . 9780826341174 . 2007.
- Book: Whittlesey, Lee H. . Watry, Elizabeth A. . Ho! For Wonderland-Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914 . University of New Mexico Press . Albuquerque, New Mexico . 9780826346162 . 2009.
Notes and References
- Book: Culpin, Mary Shivers . For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People: A History of Concession Development in Yellowstone National Park-1872-1966 . Yellowstone Center for Resources . Yellowstone National Park, WY . 2003 . Appendix E - Timeline of Concessioners in Yellowstone National Park . 126–132.
- Book: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Historic Structures Report. March 2015. A&E Architects.
- Music, Song, and Laughter-Yellowstone National Park's Fountain Hotel, 1891-1916 . Whittelsey . Lee H. . Montana The Magazine of Western History . 53 . 4 . Winter 2003 . 63–65 . Montana Historical Society Press . Helena, Montana.
- Coordinates derived from map location in Web site: The Marshall/Firehole Hotel Underwater Archeology Project . 2010-11-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110927111316/http://www.pastfoundation.org/Yellowstone2001/HotelHistory03.htm . 2011-09-27 .
- 1592874. Pleasant Valley.
- Yellowstone Park by Camp: Shaw &Powell Camping Company . Vivian A. Paladin . S. Rose Shaw . Montana: The Magazine of Western History . 22 . 3 . Summer 1972 . 94–101 . Montana Historical Society . Helena, MT . 451771.
- Yellowstone Park by Camp . Paladin, Vivian A. . Shaw, S. Rose . Montana The Magazine of Western History . XXII . 3 . Summer 1972 . Montana Historical Society Press . Helena, Montana . 94–101.
- Book: Haines, Aubrey L. . The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park. . University Press of Colorado . Niwot, CO . 1996 . Second Revised . II . 0870813919 . 134–141.