Honeymoon roadtrip - Seattle to Chicago

[Midwest Michael]

40 Minutes to the West Gate is a LONG way away. You need to remember that Yellowstone is a huge park, with very slow travel speed. Just from the entry point, you've still got long drives to get to major parts of the park. Even the closest main attractions to the west gate, like Old Faithful, are going to take well over an hour to get to, and places farther away like Mammoth, Canyon, Yellowstone lake will be a couple of hours drive away.

Not to mention, where did you get the "40 minutes" from? I looks like it is closer to an hour away from the West Gate. Google maps shows it being 45 minutes just to the town of West Yellowstone.

[DonnaR57]

We stayed at the One Horse Motel in West Yellowstone. The folks that run the place were friendly, there's laundry facilities, but I can tell you that the rooms are all small and cramped. Everyone that I talked to, said they barely had enough room to walk in their room. That about described our room, though the bathroom was pretty decently sized!

If you aren't planning to spend a lot of time in your room, it's close to everything in West Yellowstone - you can walk to dinner, a grocery store, a lounge, a museum or a gift shop. It's also less than a mile from the kiosk to enter Yellowstone Park.


Donna

[Southwest Dave]

We stayed in West Yellowstone at the Moose Creek Inn. Clean and tidy with nice owners and not bad for walking into town at night. The rooms are small but very cosy and there is a communial kitchen to make drinks etc. They are showing rooms available, single queen bed room; $138 and single King $148 on their site.

[clintosdebrave]

40 Minutes to the West Gate is a LONG way away. You need to remember that Yellowstone is a huge park, with very slow travel speed. Just from the entry point, you've still got long drives to get to major parts of the park. Even the closest main attractions to the west gate, like Old Faithful, are going to take well over an hour to get to, and places farther away like Mammoth, Canyon, Yellowstone lake will be a couple of hours drive away.

Not to mention, where did you get the "40 minutes" from? I looks like it is closer to an hour away from the West Gate. Google maps shows it being 45 minutes just to the town of West Yellowstone.

Thats a very good point. Thats over 3-4 hours of travelling from park to accommodation each day. I checked all these new suggestions unfortunately nobody has availability.

I did find here:
http://www.pineshadowsmotel.com/

Anybody has experiences with this motel?

Thanks