First opened in 1904, the remarkable Old Faithful Inn is the creative work of architect Robert Reamer, who focused on using materials found in the park. The lodgepole pine was cut some four miles south of the hotel site, while 500 tonnes of rhyolite rock for the lobby chimney was quarried about five miles away.

The 327-room property is mere steps away from the world’s most famous geyser and while rates aren’t exactly cheap, some rooms offer front-row seats for the eruption of the Old Faithful.

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