Must-see hotels in Yellowstone National Park

  • Old Faithful Inn

    Yellowstone National Park

    A stay at this historic log masterpiece is a quintessential Yellowstone experience. The lobby alone is worth a visit, just to sit in front of the…

  • Lake Yellowstone Hotel

    Yellowstone National Park

    Commanding the northern lakeshore, this buttercup-yellow colonial behemoth sets romantics aflutter. It harks back to a bygone era, though the rooms that…

  • Canyon Lodges

    Yellowstone National Park

    This enormous complex dates from the opening of the park to mass tourism in the 1950s and 1960s, but has seen big changes in recent years. In 2014, 200 of…

  • Mammoth Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This barren, sagebrush-covered campground with sparse shade is on a hairpin bend in the road below Mammoth Hot Springs. It gets road noise, but its…

  • Norris Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    Nestled in a scenic, open, lodgepole-pine forest on a sunny hill overlooking the Gibbon River and meadows, this is one of the park’s nicest campgrounds…

  • Roosevelt Lodge

    Yellowstone National Park

    Founded in 1906 as a tented camp, present-day Roosevelt Lodge was built in 1919 and retains an old-timey cowboy feel, offering 80 rustic cabins, horseback…

  • Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel

    Yellowstone National Park

    A classy vibe, a good variety of accommodations and a useful location make this one of the park’s most popular hotels. The main choice is between the…

  • Lake Lodge Cabins

    Yellowstone National Park

    The cabins at Lake Lodge are a relatively simple affair. The Western cabins ($246) are spacious, modern and ideal for families, either in forested back…

  • Canyon Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This huge campground is the most densely forested in the park, but the 11 loops are also some of the most cramped, which makes staying here feel like…

  • Old Faithful Snow Lodge

    Yellowstone National Park

    This modern lodge was built in 1999 in a ‘New Western’ style and offers the only winter accommodations available at Old Faithful. The main lodge has a…

  • Pebble Creek Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    The park’s most remote campground is set along the banks of a creek in grizzly habitat and surrounded on three sides by the rugged cliffs of the Absaroka…

  • Indian Creek Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    Located 8 miles south of Mammoth Junction, this low-key spot is probably the park’s most underused campground – most people speed by between Mammoth and…

  • Bridge Bay Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This mega-complex adjacent to the marina, 3 miles southwest of Lake Village, appeals to fishing and boating enthusiasts. Some lower sites offer lake views…

  • Grant Village Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    On the western shore of Yellowstone Lake, 22 miles north of the South Entrance, this is the park’s biggest campground, with a nearby boat launch, an RV…

  • Lewis Lake Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This forested campground is at the southern end of Lewis Lake, about 10 miles north of the South Entrance. It's popular with boaters and is near easy…

  • Tower Fall Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This small, secluded single loop of 31 sites is high above Tower Creek in a cool, open pine forest. There are hiking trails up Tower Creek and groceries…

  • Slough Creek Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    This remote, peaceful site, 2.2 miles up an unpaved road, is in grizzly habitat along a prime fishing stream. Generators are not allowed. The campground…

  • Cave Falls Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    Situated in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, just at the southwestern park border, by Bechler’s trailheads and Cave Falls, the 23 pleasant woodsy…

  • Madison Campground

    Yellowstone National Park

    The nearest campground to Old Faithful and the West Entrance occupies a sunny, open forest in a broad meadow above the Madison River. Bison and the park’s…

  • Old Faithful Lodge Cabins

    Yellowstone National Park

    This 194-cabin lodge was built in 1923 and has its historical roots in Yellowstone’s turn-of-the-century tent camps. It’s not particularly atmospheric,…

  • Fishing Bridge RV Park

    Yellowstone National Park

    This is the only campground with full hookups (water, power, sewer) and due to heavy bear activity only allows hard-sided trailers or RVs. The 340 sites…

  • Grant Village

    Yellowstone National Park

    The 300 condo-like boxes with standard hotel interiors at Grant Village were once dismissed by author Alston Chase as ‘an inner-city project in the heart…