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Historic Hotels & Inns in Wyoming
From Yellowstone’s park lodges and Buffalo Bill’s Irma in Cody to the Sheridan Inn, Cheyenne’s Plains Hotel and ranch stays near Buffalo, Jackson and Laramie: every historic hotel and inn in Wyoming we could verify.
The short answer
Yellowstone has the most, with five historic lodges on its Wyoming side: book the Old Faithful Inn, Robert Reamer’s log inn of 1903–04, or a main-hotel room at the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, opened in 1891, rather than its Sandpiper Lodge or cabins. In Grand Teton National Park, book the main lodge or one of the 21 original cottages at Jackson Lake Lodge, Gilbert Stanley Underwood’s National Historic Landmark, dedicated in 1955. Buffalo Bill opened the Irma in Cody in 1902, and in Sheridan he auditioned Wild West performers on the lawn of the 1893 Sheridan Inn. Cheyenne has the 1911 Plains Hotel and the 1888 Nagle Warren Mansion, an adults-only B&B, and near Buffalo the TA Ranch’s 1882 ranch house still shows bullet holes from the 1892 Johnson County War. Four are Historic Hotels of America members: the Old Faithful Inn, the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, the Sheridan Inn and The Wort Hotel in Jackson.
Our top picks
Best overall
Old Faithful Inn
Built 1904 · Yellowstone National Park
Robert Reamer's log inn of 1903–04 beside Old Faithful Geyser, a National Historic Landmark; every room type is in the historic building.
Most haunted
Sheridan Inn
Built 1893 · Sheridan
Thomas Kimball's 1893 inn, where Buffalo Bill auditioned Wild West performers on the lawn and which he owned for a time.
Best lodge
Jackson Lake Lodge
Built 1953–55 · Grand Teton National Park
Gilbert Stanley Underwood's lodge for John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s company, dedicated in 1955; book the main lodge or the 21 original cottages.
Best B&B
Nagle Warren Mansion
Built 1888 · Cheyenne
Merchant Erasmus Nagle's 1888 Romanesque stone mansion, bought in 1915 by Sen. Francis E. Warren; now an adults-only B&B (18+).
Best motel
The Log Cabin Motel
Built 1929 · Pinedale
Pinedale's 1929 Camp of the Pines, the town's only cabin camp; book one of log cabins 1–7, not the cabins added in…
Grand hotel
Lake Yellowstone Hotel
Built 1891 · Yellowstone National Park
Opened in 1891, with Robert Reamer's porticoes of 1903–04; book main-hotel rooms, since the Sandpiper Lodge and cabins aren't covered by the…
Where they are
Where to go
Every historic inn in Wyoming
| Inn | Town | Built | Rooms | Type | Price | Haunted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TA Ranch | Buffalo | 1882–c. 1915 | – | Lodge | $$$$ | Rates | |
| Nagle Warren Mansion | Cheyenne | 1888 | – | B&B | – | Rates | |
| Lake Yellowstone Hotel | Yellowstone National Park | 1891 | – | Grand hotel | – | Yes | Rates |
| Sheridan Inn | Sheridan | 1893 | 22 | Inn | – | Yes | Rates |
| Hotel Wolf | Saratoga | 1893 | – | Inn | – | Rates | |
| The Irma Hotel | Cody | 1902 | – | Inn | – | Yes | Rates |
| Old Faithful Inn | Yellowstone National Park | 1904 | – | Lodge | – | Yes | Rates |
| Elk Mountain Hotel | Elk Mountain | 1905 | – | Inn | – | Rates | |
| Mountain View Historic Hotel | Centennial | 1907 | 7 | Inn | – | Rates | |
| The Historic Plains Hotel | Cheyenne | 1911 | – | Grand hotel | – | Yes | Rates |
| Vee Bar Guest Ranch | Laramie | 1911 | – | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel & Cabins | Yellowstone National Park | 1911–13 | – | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| Hotel LaBonte | Douglas | 1913 | – | Inn | – | Yes | Rates |
| Absaroka Mountain Lodge | Wapiti | 1917–1940s | 15 | Lodge | $$ | Rates | |
| Plaza Hotel | Thermopolis | 1918 | – | Inn | – | Rates | |
| Roosevelt Lodge Cabins | Yellowstone National Park | 1922–1930s | – | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| Mill Inn | Sheridan | 1920–21 | – | Inn | – | Rates | |
| Flat Creek Ranch | Jackson | 1922–23 | 5 | Lodge | $$$$ | Rates | |
| Old Faithful Lodge Cabins | Yellowstone National Park | 1924–42 | – | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| The Log Cabin Motel | Pinedale | 1929 | – | Inn | – | Rates | |
| Twin Pines Lodge and Cabins | Dubois | 1934–41 | – | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| The Wort Hotel | Jackson | 1941 | – | Boutique hotel | – | Yes | Rates |
| Jackson Lake Lodge | Grand Teton National Park | 1953–55 | 385 | Lodge | – | Rates | |
| Outlaw Inn | Rock Springs | 1966 | 100 | Inn | – | Rates |
Price is a typical nightly rate: $ under $200, $$ $200–349, $$$ $350–549, $$$$ $550+. Rates vary by season; check the inn for exact prices.
Elsewhere in Wyoming
Built 1882–c. 1915 · Log ranch buildings · Buffalo · Lodge
TA Ranch
Why stay The 1882 ranch house besieged in the 1892 Johnson County War, bullet holes intact; book it or the c. 1915 Milk Barn, not the Granary or Bunkhouse.
Good to know Breakfast: included
Built 1888 · Romanesque Revival · Cheyenne · B&B
Nagle Warren Mansion
Why stay Merchant Erasmus Nagle's 1888 Romanesque stone mansion, bought in 1915 by Sen. Francis E. Warren; now an adults-only B&B (18+).
Good to know Breakfast: included · Adults only
Built 1893 · Scottish-inspired shingle hotel with gambrel roof · Sheridan · Inn
Sheridan Inn
Why stay Thomas Kimball's 1893 inn, where Buffalo Bill auditioned Wild West performers on the lawn and which he owned for a time.
The ghost story Miss Kate Arnold worked at the inn for decades and her ashes rest in the wall of Room 306; guests on the third floor have reported hearing her old lights-out whistle and cold spots, and staff say she 'does still oversee the inn lovingly'.
Built 1893 · Victorian · Saratoga · Inn
Hotel Wolf
Why stay Frederick G. Wolf's 1893 hotel, once a stagecoach lunch stop; novelist C.J. Box set part of 'The Disappeared' in its Room 9.
Built 1902 · Cody · Inn
The Irma Hotel
Why stay Buffalo Bill Cody's 1902 hotel in the town he founded, named for his daughter; rooms are in the original building and a c. 1930 annex, both historic.
The ghost story Staff and guests report friendly ghosts, including sightings said to be Buffalo Bill himself, a well-dressed man who vanishes from a restaurant booth, and a soldier in Room 35, the room a hallucinating cavalryman shot up in 1912 according to a local historian.
Built 1905 · Victorian · Elk Mountain · Inn
Elk Mountain Hotel
Why stay John Evans's 1905 hotel on the site of an Overland Trail stage station, closed around 2000 for restoration and rebuilt room by room.
Built 1907 · Folk Victorian · Centennial · Inn
Mountain View Historic Hotel
Why stay Built in 1907 to celebrate the first train into Centennial, later apartments, restored in the 2000s; the hotel lists seven suites.
Good to know Pets welcome
Built 1911 · Beaux Arts-influenced brick commercial · Cheyenne · Grand hotel
The Historic Plains Hotel
Why stay William R. Dubois's 1911 hotel on Central Avenue, built by Cheyenne investors including Sen. Francis E. Warren, with a 1927 annex.
The ghost story Hotel legend says a bride named Rosie shot her new husband and another woman and then herself during her honeymoon, and Wyoming's tourism office reports that 'flashes' of the three are seen on the second floor.
Built 1911 · Vernacular log with Victorian details · Laramie · Lodge
Vee Bar Guest Ranch
Why stay A guest ranch on the Little Laramie River; book Cabins 1–3, two of which are the 1911 originals, not the newer Riverside Suites.
Built 1913 · Douglas · Inn
Hotel LaBonte
Why stay Douglas's 1913 hotel, opened in January 1914; the hotel ties its ghost stories to a 1924 manhunt that ended in a gunfight inside.
The ghost story The hotel's own 'Stories & Hauntings' page ties its reputation to a 1924 shootout in which a fugitive was fatally wounded by the sheriff inside the hotel, and says guests and staff report footsteps, voices, doors moving and a feeling of being watched.
Built 1917–1940s · Rustic log dude ranch · Wapiti · Lodge
Absaroka Mountain Lodge
Why stay Founded in 1917 as Gunbarrel Lodge on the North Fork Highway; book a log cabin from 1917 to the 1940s, not the one built in 1993–94.
Good to know No pets
Built 1918 · Two-story brick · Thermopolis · Inn
Plaza Hotel
Why stay Occupies the 1918 Callaghan Apartments building in Hot Springs State Park, the only hotel left from the park's early mineral-water era.
Built 1920–21 · Reinforced-concrete industrial · Sheridan · Inn
Mill Inn
Why stay J.W. Denio's 1920–21 flour mill, with its 144-foot grain elevator, turned into a motel in 1978 with guest rooms on its first two floors.
Good to know Elevator
Built 1922–23 · Rustic log · Jackson · Lodge
Flat Creek Ranch
Why stay Cissy Patterson's 1922–23 log retreat on Cal Carrington's old homestead, now an all-inclusive ranch that lists five guest cabins.
Good to know Breakfast: included
Built 1929 · Rustic log tourist cabins · Pinedale · Inn
The Log Cabin Motel
Why stay Pinedale's 1929 Camp of the Pines, the town's only cabin camp; book one of log cabins 1–7, not the cabins added in 1985.
Built 1934–41 · Rustic log (tie-hack era) · Dubois · Lodge
Twin Pines Lodge and Cabins
Why stay Log cabins of 1934 and a 1941 lodge, built with logs cut by local tie hacks, on Dubois's main street; the earlier 1929 cabins were altered.
Built 1941 · Tudor Revival (half-timbered) · Jackson · Boutique hotel
The Wort Hotel
Why stay John and Jess Wort's 1941 Tudor Revival hotel near Town Square; its guest floors were rebuilt to the original design after a 1980 fire.
The ghost story Wyoming's state tourism office relays the local story that two children killed by a family member in a hotel room in the 1960s still roam the halls, and that locals report seeing their faces at the windows.
Built 1953–55 · Rustic Modern (National Park Service interpretation of the International Style) · Grand Teton National Park · Lodge
Jackson Lake Lodge
Why stay Gilbert Stanley Underwood's lodge for John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s company, dedicated in 1955; book the main lodge or the 21 original cottages.
Built 1966 · Modernist / Neo-Expressionist motor inn · Rock Springs · Inn
Outlaw Inn
Why stay A 1966 motor inn at I-80 and U.S. 191; its 2018 National Register form counts 100 rooms, 67 of them around an indoor atrium.
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Ways in
Themes in Wyoming
Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Jackson
Five historic stays sit on Yellowstone’s Wyoming side: the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, opened in 1891, and Robert Reamer’s Old Faithful Inn of 1903–04, both National Historic Landmarks; the Old Faithful Lodge Cabins of 1924–42; the Roosevelt Lodge Cabins, near a campsite Theodore Roosevelt used in 1903; and Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, the only one open in winter. In Grand Teton National Park, Gilbert Stanley Underwood designed Jackson Lake Lodge for John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s company, and the lodge says it is now booking for 2027. In the town of Jackson, John and Jess Wort opened The Wort Hotel in 1941; its guest floors were rebuilt to the original design after a 1980 fire.
Buffalo Bill’s Cody and Sheridan
William F. ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody built the Irma in the town he founded and named it for his daughter; it opened on November 18, 1902, and guests sleep in the original building or its c. 1930 annex. West of town on the North Fork Highway, the road to Yellowstone’s East Entrance, Absaroka Mountain Lodge began in 1917 as Gunbarrel Lodge, and the lodge says Buffalo Bill’s grandson Fred Garlow once owned it. In Sheridan, Buffalo Bill led the grand march at the 1893 opening of Thomas Kimball’s Sheridan Inn, auditioned Wild West performers on its lawn and for a time owned it; in south Sheridan, the Mill Inn fills J.W. Denio’s 1920–21 flour mill.
Guest ranches from Buffalo to the Snowy Range
Near Buffalo, the TA Ranch’s 1882 ranch house and barn were besieged for three days in 1892 during the Johnson County War, and both still show the bullet holes; the Madsen family runs it as an all-inclusive guest ranch, with historic rooms in the Ranch House and the c. 1915 Milk Barn. Outside Jackson, Flat Creek Ranch is the log retreat Cissy Patterson built in 1922–23 on Cal Carrington’s former homestead, now all-inclusive. West of Laramie on the Little Laramie River, the Vee Bar Guest Ranch’s hewn-log lodge of 1901 served guests when the ranch was a stage station, and two of its Cabins 1–3 are originals from 1911.
Main streets, stage stops and cabin camps
Cheyenne investors including Senator Francis E. Warren built William R. Dubois’s Plains Hotel, opened on March 10, 1911, and Warren bought Erasmus Nagle’s 1888 stone mansion in 1915; it is now the Nagle Warren Mansion B&B. To the west, Frederick G. Wolf’s 1893 hotel in Saratoga was a stagecoach lunch stop, the 1905 Elk Mountain Hotel stands on land once used by an Overland Trail stage station, and Centennial’s Mountain View Hotel was built in 1907 to celebrate the town’s first train. In central Wyoming, Hotel LaBonte opened in Douglas in January 1914, the Plaza Hotel in Thermopolis occupies the 1918 Callaghan Apartments, Twin Pines in Dubois has log cabins of 1934 and a 1941 lodge, and Pinedale’s Log Cabin Motel opened in 1929 as the Camp of the Pines. Rock Springs’ Outlaw Inn, a 1966 motor inn, was built for traffic on the newly finished Interstate 80.
Road trip
Sheridan to Jackson Hole, inn to inn
Sheridan
Start at the Sheridan Inn, Thomas Kimball’s 1893 inn, where Buffalo Bill auditioned Wild West performers on the lawn; its rooms are named for him and figures from his life.
Cody
Stay at the Irma, the hotel Buffalo Bill built in 1902 on Sheridan Avenue, or head west on the North Fork Highway to a log cabin at Absaroka Mountain Lodge, founded in 1917.
Yellowstone
Enter by the East Entrance, 50 miles west of Cody, and split your nights between the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, the Old Faithful Inn and the cabins at Old Faithful, Roosevelt and Mammoth. Check seasons and which rooms to book in our Yellowstone guide.
Grand Teton and Jackson
Leave by the South Entrance, about 56 miles north of Jackson, for a room in Jackson Lake Lodge’s main lodge or one of its 21 original cottages, or end in Jackson at The Wort Hotel, a block west of Town Square. Jackson Lake Lodge says it is booking 2027 but hadn’t posted opening dates when we checked.
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Context
History and architecture
Congress established Yellowstone in 1872, Wyoming became the 44th state on July 10, 1890, and the Lake Yellowstone Hotel opened the next year. Of the stays we list, the oldest building is the TA Ranch house of 1882, besieged in the Johnson County War of 1892, and in Cheyenne merchant Erasmus Nagle finished his stone mansion in 1888. Hotels followed: the Sheridan Inn and Frederick G. Wolf’s hotel in Saratoga in 1893, Buffalo Bill’s Irma in Cody in 1902 and Robert Reamer’s Old Faithful Inn in 1904. Cheyenne investors opened the Plains Hotel in 1911, Douglas business leaders opened the LaBonte in 1914, and the Callaghan Apartments in Hot Springs State Park took guests from 1918. Cabin camps followed for motorists: the Yellowstone Park Company built cabins behind the Old Faithful Lodge from 1924, and Pinedale’s Camp of the Pines opened in 1929 to serve auto tourists. Modern designs came later, with Gilbert Stanley Underwood’s Jackson Lake Lodge in 1955 and the Outlaw Inn, built in 1965–66 for traffic on the newly finished Interstate 80.
Questions travelers ask
What is the oldest hotel in Wyoming?
Of the stays we list, the one with the earliest start as a hotel is the Lake Yellowstone Hotel, opened in 1891, which NPS calls the oldest operating hotel in Yellowstone. The Sheridan Inn opened in 1893, the year Frederick G. Wolf built his hotel in Saratoga, and Buffalo Bill’s Irma opened in Cody in 1902. The oldest building is the TA Ranch’s 1882 ranch house near Buffalo, where guests now stay on an all-inclusive ranch.
What is the most haunted hotel in Wyoming?
There is no official ranking. Wyoming’s state tourism office retells ghost stories at the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne, where hotel legend tells of a honeymooning bride named Rosie, and at The Wort Hotel in Jackson. The Sheridan Inn’s best-known story is Miss Kate Arnold, whose ashes rest in the wall of Room 306; staff and guests at the Irma in Cody report sightings said to be Buffalo Bill himself; and Hotel LaBonte in Douglas ties its stories to a 1924 gunfight. At the Old Faithful Inn, the concessioner’s own blog says the famous ‘headless bride’ tale was made up by a former bell captain. These are stories, not documented fact.
Which Wyoming hotels are Historic Hotels of America members?
Four: the Old Faithful Inn and the Lake Yellowstone Hotel in Yellowstone, the Sheridan Inn in Sheridan and The Wort Hotel in Jackson.
Can you stay in a historic lodge in Yellowstone or Grand Teton?
Yes. Five are on Yellowstone’s Wyoming side: the Old Faithful Inn, the Lake Yellowstone Hotel (book the main hotel, not the Sandpiper Lodge or the cabins), the Old Faithful Lodge Cabins, the Roosevelt Lodge Cabins and Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel & Cabins. In Grand Teton National Park, book Jackson Lake Lodge’s main lodge or one of its 21 original cottages; its c. 1964 cottages and two-story units aren’t historic.
Are there historic guest ranches in Wyoming?
Yes, four we list. TA Ranch near Buffalo is all-inclusive with a three-night minimum, with historic rooms in its 1882 Ranch House and c. 1915 Milk Barn; Flat Creek Ranch near Jackson is Cissy Patterson’s all-inclusive 1922–23 retreat; at Vee Bar Guest Ranch west of Laramie, book Cabins 1–3, two of which date from 1911; and Absaroka Mountain Lodge on the North Fork Highway rents log cabins from 1917 to the 1940s.
How we chose these inns
Every place on this page is at least 50 years old, holds a credential we can check (National Register listing, a listed historic district, landmark status, or Historic Hotels of America membership), and takes bookings today. We verify each one against primary sources before it goes on the list, and last checked this list in October 2026. Read our criteria.
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