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there are a couple of lakefront picnic tables. In front of Lake Hotel, where a boat dock used
to be, is a beautiful mountain panorama over the lake. Here you can see a large part of the
southeastern quadrant of Yellowstone Park, from Pyramid Peak south to Mount Sheridan.
The large building at the far end of this side road is the now-closed Lake Fish Hatchery,
for many years the largest game fish hatchery in the United States. From 1913 until the 1950s,
fish were raised to fingerling size from harvested eggs, then planted in lakes and streams
throughout the park and sent to many localities outside the park.
Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available at Lake Hotel and Lake Lodge and
outside the general store.
There are two segments of trail along the lakeshore stretching from about 1 mile (1.6
km) west of the hatchery building past Lake Hotel and Lake Lodge northeast to Fishing Bridge
Junction. This was a stretch of the Grand Loop Road until the Lake bypass was constructed in
the early 1970s. Biking is allowed on the segment of the old roadbed west of the clinic.
Lake Hotel Panorama*
Left to right (east to southwest):
Pyramid Peak
(10,508 t / 3,203 m) and jagged
Cathedral Peak
(10,765 t / 3,281 m).
Mt. Chittenden
(10,177 ft / 3,102 m) and its neighboring peak to the south form a saddle on
the eastern boundary of the park.
Mountains outside the park boundary.
Steamboat Point
on the lakeshore.
Flat-topped
Avalanche Peak
(10,568 t / 3,221 m) and
Hoyt Peak
(10,506 ft / 3,202m) slightly
behind and to its right. In front of Avalanche and Hoyt is
Lake Butte,
covered with trees.
Reservation Peak
(10,629 ft / 3,240 m), with its diagonal border capping of dark rock, is much
farther back and to the south of the East Entrance Road.
