Glacier National Park ยท St. Mary / Rising Sun
Rising Sun Motor Inn & Cabins
A low-cost auto camp of 1941 near St. Mary Lake; book a Cabin Room or Store Motel Room, since Motor Inn rooms are outside the historic district.
- Built
- 1941Built 1940-41 by the Glacier Park Hotel Company as the Roes Creek Auto Camp, later the East Glacier Auto Camp and, from 1950, Rising Sun Auto Camp. The general store and 19 cabins date to 1941. The Motor Inn rooms are later and outside the historic district.
- Style
- National Park Service Rustic (studs-out frame)
- Architect
- Glacier Park Hotel Company (approved by NPS landscape architects)
- Type
- Lodge
- Rooms
- 72
- Area
- St. Mary / Rising Sun
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
By 1940, pressed by the NPS and encouraged by Swiftcurrent’s success, the Glacier Park Hotel Company began a low-cost auto camp at Roes Creek for travelers arriving by car rather than by railway. The cabins, general store and registration building went up in 1941. Showers were added to the cabins in 1958, and the store’s former coffee shop became a nine-unit motel in 1965. The camp took the Rising Sun name in 1950.
Good to know
- Breakfast: available
- No pets
- Address: Glacier National Park, MT
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.