This colorful booklet has Northern Pacific’s logo on the cover (which is actually the back cover), but was issued by the Yellowstone Park Camps Company. A map on panels 7 and 8 gives equal attention to Northern Pacific’s Gardiner Entrance, Union Pacific’s West Yellowstone entrance, Burlington’s Cody entrance, and even Chicago & North Western’s Lander gateway (which was 189 miles from the park), so it is possible that some of those other railroads, along with the Milwaukee, distributed similar booklets with their own logos on the cover.

Click image to download a 6.4-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet.

We’ve previously seen an edition of this booklet dated 1925. This one, which is courtesy of the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, is for 1926.

Major hotels at Mammoth, Old Faithful, Canyon, and Lake attracted wealthy travelers. The lodges described in this booklet were less expensive and not as luxurious. The lodges were mostly one-story tall, had large dining rooms whose ceilings were held up by numerous rustic pillars, while bedrooms were in smaller buildings, often “bungalow tents” with wood floors and canvas walls containing “high-quality” beds and “plain but adequate” furniture.

Complete tours of Yellowstone, including transportation within the park, lodging, and meals, were $45 (about $750 today) for a four-and-one-half day tour. Staying at the premiere hotels would have cost $9 more (about $150 today). Of the $45, $25 was for transportation and $20 was for meals and lodging. Stopovers were permitted at any lodge for $4.50 a day.

The centerfold lists 25 different tours, but they all covered basically the same sites, just with different entrances and exits. Tours entering or exiting via the Lander gateway a day longer and those both entering and exiting the Lander gateway required seven days, presumably costing a little more.