Since before the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, entrepreneurs have established hotels and permanent tourist camps to accommodate visitors to the park. Today, Xanterra Parks and Resorts operates hotel and camping concessions in the park on behalf of the National Park Service. This is a list of hotels and permanent tourist camps that have operated or continue to operate in the park.
Created by Amos Shaw and J. D. Powell, Shaw and Powell operated mobile camps on one year leases from the Department of Interior from 1898 until 1913 when they were granted a ten-year lease for seven permanent camps.[8]
The Wylie Permanent Camping Company was created by William Wallace Wylie, a Bozeman, Montana school superintendent with a two-year lease in 1893.[9]
The camps, nicknamed the Wylie Way were located at Wylie Camp (Lake), Wylie Camp (Lost Creek) (1906- precursor to Camp Roosevelt), Wylie Camp (Canyon), Wylie Camp (Old Faithful), Wylie Camp (Riverside), Wylie Camp (Sleepy Hollow), Wylie Camp (Swan Lake Flats)
Waite, Thornton (2006). Yellowstone by Train-A History of Rail Travel to America's First National Park. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Inc. ISBN9781575101293.
Whittlesey, Lee H. (2007). Storytelling in Yellowstone-Horse and Buggy Tour Guides. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN9780826341174.
Whittlesey, Lee H.; Watry, Elizabeth A. (2009). Ho! For Wonderland-Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN9780826346162.
^ abcdeMammoth Hot Springs Hotel Historic Structures Report. A&E Architects. March 2015.
^William L. Lang, ed. (1981). F. Jay Haynes-Photographer. Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press. p. 144. ISBN0917298047.
^Whittelsey, Lee H. (Winter 2003). "Music, Song, and Laughter-Yellowstone National Park's Fountain Hotel, 1891-1916". Montana The Magazine of Western History. 53 (4). Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press: 63–65.
^Vivian A. Paladin; S. Rose Shaw (Summer 1972). "Yellowstone Park by Camp: Shaw &Powell Camping Company". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 22 (3). Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society: 94–101. JSTOR451771.
^Paladin, Vivian A.; Shaw, S. Rose (Summer 1972). "Yellowstone Park by Camp". Montana The Magazine of Western History. XXII (3). Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press: 94–101.
^Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). The Yellowstone Story-A History of Our First National Park. Vol. II (Second Revised ed.). Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado. pp. 134–141. ISBN0870813919.