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Yellowstone Lake Hotel

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:00:00 +0000

S H Lake Hotel (called Lake Yellowstone Hotel by the concessionaire in recent years) suggests 1920s casual elegance. The Lake String Quartet has played in the sunroom during cocktail and dinner hours since 1999, the dining room (reservations required) has some of the best food in the park, and the entire hotel is the most carefully planned and comfortable of any in Yellowstone. The hotel also has a sit-down deli and a gift shop. From the Haynes Guide for 1912: Hotel at the Outlet. This spacious and elegantly appointed hotel tends greatly toward making Yellowstone Lake the resort par excellence

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Yellowstone Lake

editor — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:30:00 +0000

No writer has better described Yellowstone Lake than did renowned naturalist John Muir in an Atlantic Monthly article of 1898: It is about twenty miles long and fifteen wide, and lies at a height of nearly 8000 feet above the level of the sea, amid dense black forests and snowy mountains. Around its winding, wavering shores, closely forested and picturesquely varied with promontories and bays, the distance is more than 100 miles_ It is full of trout, and a vast multitude of birds swans, pelicans, geese, ducks, cranes, herons, curlews, plovers, snipe feed in it and upon its shores; and

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