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

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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

Not sure which of these qualify, but they stand out for me: Vaoto Lodge (NP American Samoa), Inn at Brandywine Falls (Cuyahoga Falls), Lake Quinault Lodge (Olympic NP), Skyland Resort (Shenandoah NP).


Lodge at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon!


I'm partial to the quaint little lodge at Oregon Caves.


El Tovar and the Grand Canyon Lodge (North Rim) have to be on the list. And Jackson Lake Lodge is a good candidate. Ahwahnee is an obvious qualifier. Oh, wait -- you want to ID only 5! Can't be done.


I would second Lake Quinault Lodge, and also mention the Paradise Inn at Rainier.


I'd probably go with Old Faithful Inn, Many Glacier Hotel, Crater Lake Lodge, Bryce Canyon Lodge, and Kalaloch Lodge.


Lake McDonald Lodge - Glacier National Park


Based on the criteria of "setting," two of my votes go the the Many Glacier Hotel (pictured in the story) and the Glacier Bay Lodge (Glacier Bay National Park). 


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