Yellowstone in 1966

This brochure, from the NRPHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, advertises the same three-day tours through Yellowstone that were listed in yesterday’s: one for westbound travelers that went through Cody and one for eastbound travelers that went through Red Lodge. Due to inflation, the westbound tour price increased to $84.04 while the eastbound tour (which spent one extra night in a hotel) was $101.24. In today’s dollars, that means the westbound price increased from $735 to $750 while the eastbound price remained about $900. These prices including transportation, lodging, and meals in the park, but some meals outside the park were “on your own.”

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The westbound tour spent two nights at the Lake Hotel and one at Mammoth. The eastbound tour spent one night each at the Mammoth Hotel, Lake Hotel, and Old Faithful Inn and a final night at the Northern Hotel in Billings. The Northern Hotel opened in 1904 as a three-story hotel (later increased to four stories), but after a fire destroyed it in 1940, it was replaced with a modern ten-story building. It advertises itself today as providing “unpretentious, historic luxury.”


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