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Reader Survey Day: What Are The Top 5 National Park Lodges

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By Kurt Repanshek - July 8th, 2015
Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park/Kurt Repanshek

Would you count the Many Glacier Hotel at Glacier National Park as one of the top five lodges in the National Park System?/Kurt Repanshek

Across the National Park System there are many, many places to call home for a night or a week. But which ones are the best? 

You, fellow travelers, have tested the lodgings across the park system. So which are the best?

To help us come up with the top five, please consider architecture, setting, and comfort. Customer service will be left for another survey.

So, is The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park atop your list? Or the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park? Would you include LeConte Lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Or is there another lodge that gets overlooked?

Tell us, travelers.

Comments

Submitted by Mary brelsford on July 8, 2015 - 8:06pm.

Lake Crescent Lodge, Olympic National Park! By far the most wonderful, unspoiled accommodations, on pristine waters.


Submitted by [email protected] on July 8, 2015 - 11:53pm.

El Tovar pretty special, the Lodge in the main Canyon of Big Bend nice, all mentioned worth visiting.


Submitted by Anonymous on July 9, 2015 - 2:38am.

I agree with both of these. Especially Jackson Lake Lodge...with the floor to ceiling windows looking out onto that spectacular view!


Submitted by Anonymous on July 9, 2015 - 2:58am.

We enjoyed the splendid isolation of Chisos Mountain Lodge in Big Bend National Park. Watching the sun go down beyond the "Window" was an amazing experience. I think that one tends to be overlooked.


Submitted by warno on July 9, 2015 - 9:06am.

Lake Crescent Lodge, Paradise Inn, Zion Lodge, Crater Lake Lodge, Glacier Bay Lodge


Submitted by Elaine B on July 9, 2015 - 12:30pm.

Definitely Many Glacier Lodge! Absolutely spectacular!


Submitted by Megaera on July 9, 2015 - 4:13pm.

Old Faithful Inn, hands down.


Submitted by Alfred Runte on July 10, 2015 - 10:41am.

I can't resist reminding everyone of how many of their choices are railroad lodges--built in the grand old era of parkitecture, when America's railroads strove for greatness. But yes, I, too, will pick a favorite, which would be the North Rim's Grand Canyon Lodge. What an incredible building set down lovingly beside an incredible view. Now, Kurt, can we have the opposite survey--the worst building in any national park? I'm chomping at the bit to weigh in on that one, but yes, will withhold my vote until you make the survey "official."


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