Yellowstone
via
Gallatin Gateway
MONTANA

Set in green lawns, the attractive and informal Gallatin Gateway Inn is staffed by people imbued with the open-hearted spirit of the West.

You’ll feel at home here right from the moment you step off the comfortable motor coach.

Start your glorious western vacation at GALLATIN GATEWAY INN

Composed in equal parts of natural beauty, mystery and fascination, Yellowstone Park has long taken rank as one of America’s and the world’s show places. Recently it has entertained as many as a million visitors in a single summer.

Now you are planning a Yellowstone vacation. We propose, in this booklet, to give you a foretaste of the wonders that lie ahead. To show you some of the advantages of entering the Park via the scenic Gallatin Gateway, and to suggest the entertainment possibilities of a few extra days spent at Gallatin Gateway Inn.

Gallatin Gateway Inn lies about thirty-five miles south of Three Forks, Montana, on the mainline of The Milwaukee Road. The Inn was built by the Railroad and is now privately operated for the convenience of Yellowstone passengers as well as for the entertainment of guests who wish to stay over for a short time.

Of modified Spanish design, the hospitable Inn is surrounded by the green, irrigated meadows of the lovely Gallatin valley. In the background rise the timber-clad mountains of the Bridger, Gallatin and Madison ranges of the Montana Rockies.

At its elevation of almost 5,000 feet, the climate is ideal throughout the summer months. There is a high percentage of bright, sunny days yet it is always cool enough at night to enjoy the comfort of woolen blankets.

Passengers for Yellowstone on The Milwaukee Road’s COLUMBIAN taking regular Park tours have only an hour or two at the Inn. However, passengers on the new Olympian HIAWATHA arrive at the Inn in mid-afternoon and do not ordinarily leave for the Park till next day after lunch. With a knowledge of the Inn and its facilities, you can plan to take fullest advantage of your time there. And, of course, you may decide to extend your stay.

Set in wide lawns and gardens, Gallatin Gateway Inn is a delightfully comfortable place. It has bright, airy bedrooms, a spacious two-story living room, a sun-lit dining room and the friendly Corral cocktail lounge. The food is procured from the Inn’s own gardens, from nearby farms and ranches, and from markets along the route of The Milwaukee Road. Prepared by skilled chefs and expertly served, it is guaranteed to be just right for the hearty appetites generated by mountain air.

Outdoor activities and mountain air are a combination that make Gallatin Inn’s famous food taste even better.

The bedrooms, far right, are airy and comfortable.

Your genial host at Gallatin Gateway Inn combines a full understanding of hotel operation with an intimate knowledge of the surrounding country. His staff takes pride in seeing that you enjoy every minute of your stay.

On your way to or from Yellowstone, a few days at the Inn will prove a pleasant interlude. You can spend those days in quiet loafing, in active sports, or in making exploratory trips.

The swift flowing Gallatin river offers fine trout fishing just a short walk from the door. Archery, clock golf and tennis may be enjoyed right on the spacious grounds. Whatever you do you’ll like the comfort and the congenial atmosphere of Gallatin Gateway Inn.

The spacious, two-story lounge has an open fireplace, piano, and plenty of easy chairs. Writing desks, too, to catch up on postcards and letters.

The Gallatin valley is a long succession of lovely prospects.

Here the camera catches an S-curve in the river at Sagebrush Point. The full 80 miles from Gallatin Gateway to Yellowstone are a scenic delight that you’ll long remember.

OFF TO YELLOWSTONE

Chance turned the footsteps of the first white man toward Yellowstone. In 1807, John Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was wounded in an Indian battle near Jackson Hole. In escaping, he journeyed northward and penetrated Yellowstone as far as what is now known as Tower Falls.

More than twenty years later, Jim Bridger, a famous frontier guide, also entered the region that had come to be known as “Colter’s Hell” and verified the fantastic tales of his predecessor. But even then, no one accepted the story. Colter and Bridger were in the position of Marco Polo who had discovered an empire so strange that its very existence was doubted.

Not until 1870, when a public exploring party made a thorough study of the region, were its wonders accepted as fact. Then, action quickly followed. In 1872 a bill was introduced before congress and speedily passed, that established Yellowstone as the first of our National Parks. A vast rectangle of 3,438 square miles lying in the northwest corner of Wyoming and overlapping into Montana and Idaho, Yellowstone is a broad, volcanic plateau with an average elevation of 8,000 feet, and with mountain peaks in and around the park rising as high as ten and twelve thousand feet ... more than two million enchanted acres with the greatest and most varied array of wonders in all the earth.