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

Norris

Lower Geyser Basin

Upper Geyser Basin

Canyon

Tower Roosevelt

Lake

West Thumb

Permanent Tourist Camps

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. Book: Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel Historic Structures Report. March 2015. A&E Architects.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 .
  5. 1592874. Pleasant Valley.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.