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Cool accommodations at national parks: Rooms with a view
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the_mick
Jun 22 2012 at 10:53 AM
If you like $200/night rooms, by all means enjoy these hotels. I don't know it's prices now, but I see the Range Rider Lodge is still operating in Silvergate, Montana, 1.5 miles from the Northeast Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. It has a bar with country music and dancing - a rarity in the area. I stayed there admittedly 2 decades back, but a quick google indicates it's much the same. It was $21/night when anywhere else was $60. You got a room with a common restroom & shower down the
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hall and it was not heated in the summer, though there were more than enough blankets to stay warm. Meals in Silvergate or two-mile away Cooke City were huge and cheap. The only drawback was to have to drive across the Lamar Valley to get to the figure 8 road and that adds 1/2 hour each way to see the main sites. Of course, the other main outside-the-park options are either Gardner, where you're about equally away from the main sites besides the headquarters area, or West Yellowstone, where there's a long, slow line waiting to enter each morning (I've also stayed in those places).
So if you expect to be spending most of your energy exploring the park and are adults only, Silvergate's Range Rider Lodge is the ideal option for me.
Sounds luxurious to me, i'm fine with camping.
Rooms with a view
It comes down to this: Some of us just aren't into camping, but still love the great outdoors. America's national parks are some of the most beloved parts of the United States' history and culture, and the good news is that they all have hotel-style accommodations near — or sometimes in them.
If you want a room with an unspoiled view of Old Faithful, the Rockies or even a volcano caldera, you can get them, usually for reasonable rates. So go check out one of America’s jewels this summer (or fall, when they will be a bit less busy), and get a room in one of these historic, unusual, dramatic, casual, or even kind of fancy lodgings. (Text: Starre Vartan)
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