Historic Lodges & Hotels in Yellowstone

The neighborhoods

Where to stay, by area

Old Faithful

The Upper Geyser Basin packs at least 150 geysers into one square mile, and in January 2025 NPS put Old Faithful Geyser’s median interval at 102 minutes, plus or minus 10, with eruptions averaging 130 feet; predictions are posted at the visitor center, at the lodges and in the NPS app. The Old Faithful Inn and the Old Faithful Lodge Cabins are both within walking distance of the geyser, and boardwalks loop on past Castle, Grand, Daisy and Riverside geysers. Grand Prismatic Spring, in the Midway Geyser Basin, is 5.5 miles north.

Lake Village & Yellowstone Lake

Lake Village sits on the north shore of Yellowstone Lake, which NPS calls the largest lake above 7,000 feet in North America. The Lake Yellowstone Hotel opened here in 1891, and the concessioner schedules a string quartet in its Sun Room from mid-June through early August. Nearby, Fishing Bridge is a place to watch cutthroat trout, Hayden Valley’s wildlife meadows begin six miles north of Fishing Bridge Junction, and Bridge Bay Marina runs boat tours on the lake in summer.

Mammoth Hot Springs

Fifteen minutes from the North Entrance at Gardiner, Montana, Mammoth is the park’s year-round village, with travertine terraces, Fort Yellowstone (built by the U.S. Army from 1891 to 1913 and still park headquarters) and elk that NPS says are common here. The Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel’s guest wing survives from 1913 (the concessioner says 1911); Robert Reamer added the lobby and the Map Room, whose wooden map of the United States uses 15 kinds of wood, in 1936–37, and the Frontier cabins and cabins without bath are in his cabin courts of 1936–38. Guests can walk to the Albright Visitor Center and through Fort Yellowstone.

Tower-Roosevelt & Lamar Valley

The quieter northeast corner, where NPS describes rolling sagebrush hills meeting canyon scenery and where the Lamar Valley has been a wolf-watching destination since wolves were reintroduced in 1995. The Roosevelt Lodge Cabins sit behind a log lodge that opened in 1920 near a campsite Theodore Roosevelt used in 1903, and the corral runs horseback rides, stagecoach trips and the Old West Dinner Cookout. Tower Fall, 132 feet high, is a short walk from the Tower Fall General Store, and the road from Mammoth through Tower to the Northeast Entrance is the only park road open to cars all year.

Before you book

Planning your stay

Getting around

Yellowstone has five entrances, and the figure-eight Grand Loop Road links the park’s developed areas; there is no public transportation inside the park, and NPS says a vehicle is generally required. About 50 miles of road separate Old Faithful from the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the speed limit is 45 mph, and NPS’s average drive times run 40 minutes from Mammoth to Tower Junction and 35 from Lake Village to Canyon Village. Airlines serve Bozeman, Billings, Cody, Jackson and Idaho Falls all year, and the concessioner puts Bozeman’s airport about 90 minutes from the North Entrance and Cody’s just over an hour from the East Entrance. Most park roads open to cars in mid-April, but NPS hadn’t posted 2027 opening dates when we checked. No timed-entry reservation is required; in 2026, entry cost $35 per private vehicle for seven days, plus $100 for each non-U.S. resident 16 or older without an annual or America the Beautiful pass.

Parking

Neither NPS nor the concessioner lists a parking charge at any of the five lodges, and the concessioner’s Mammoth map says only that parking is unassigned. NPS lists accessible parking at the front and rear of the Old Faithful Inn, in front of the Old Faithful Lodge, in front of the Lake Hotel’s Sandpiper annex and next to the general store at Roosevelt, about 75 yards from the lodge. Sleeping in a vehicle is allowed only in a designated campground, and Mammoth’s Upper Terrace Drive is closed to RVs and trailers.

When to go

The concessioner’s 2027 seasons are posted: Old Faithful Inn April 30 to October 11, Old Faithful Lodge Cabins May 7 to October 3, Lake Yellowstone Hotel May 14 to October 10 and Roosevelt Lodge Cabins June 4 to September 6, while Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel opens April 23, 2027 and stays open through March 6, 2028; all dates are subject to change. NPS rates June through September the busiest months and May and October moderately busy, and the concessioner calls April–May and September–October ideal for wildlife watching, with snow possible by late September. In winter only Mammoth is reachable by car; its winter season runs December 15, 2026 to March 8, 2027, and its cabins without hot tubs close for the winter.

Accessibility

The concessioner says every Old Faithful Inn room is on the elevator except the West Wing’s first floor, and the Old House’s shared baths include a roll-in shower; most Lake Hotel rooms are on the elevator, though the East Wing’s first floor has a few steps, and all Mammoth hotel rooms are reachable by elevator. ADA rooms can be filtered online or booked at 307-344-7311, and Roosevelt doesn’t publish its accessible cabin count, so ask. Accessible walkways lead from every Old Faithful parking area to the geyser, only some sections of Mammoth’s Lower Terraces boardwalk are accessible, and the Tower Fall overlook trail is paved.

Before you book

Reservations open 13 months out, on the 5th of each month (midnight Mountain time online, 7 a.m. by phone), for that whole month a year ahead, so the entire 2027 summer season was already bookable by October 2026; NPS warns that park lodging fills quickly. The concessioner takes the first night as a deposit, refunds it in full with 30 days’ notice and keeps it for cancellations within 7 days of a summer arrival (14 in winter), and entrance fees aren’t included. Choose room types carefully: at Lake, the historic rooms are the Presidential Suite, Suites and Deluxe (Lakeside) rooms in the main hotel; at the Old Faithful Inn, Old House rooms come with a private bath or shared hall baths; and Roosevelt’s Roughrider cabins have wood stoves and share a central bathhouse. Expect no TV, air conditioning or Wi-Fi at the Old Faithful Inn, Lake Hotel or Roosevelt; Mammoth has Wi-Fi in its hotel rooms.