NORTHERN SECTION - Yellowstone Treasures - page 297

5.2/0.1 The clinic, post office, and National Park Service headquarters for Yellow-
stone are housed in the buildings to the left of the median strip as you enter Mammoth Vil-
lage, the Justice Center to the right. Facilities for visitors are farther on.
Near the clinic you might notice a small log cabin dating from 1895 and built as the mail
carrier's cabin. It is still used as employee housing.
A left turn beyond the median strip brings you to parking for the visitor center.
5.3/0.0 Mammoth Hot Springs Junction. To the east is Tower Junction. (For the road log from
Mammoth to Tower, see page 293 . ) The road south takes you past Mammoth's facilities and to
the Mammoth Hot Springs terraces, then continues south to Norris Junction. To the north is
the North Entrance.
FACILITIES AT MAMMOTH VILLAGE
Albright Visitor Center. An elevator at the rear of the visitor center may
be used to reach a wheelchair-accessible restroom upstairs; other restrooms are under the
porch at the front. The building's first floor houses a backcountry office, a ranger desk, a small
bookstore, a small theater—showing a park orientation film, displays of park history, and
paintings and photographs by Thomas Moran and W. H. Jackson. On the second floor are di-
oramas of Yellowstone's history and of the wildlife of the northern range, especially wolves.
This visitor center honors the memory of Horace M. Albright, park superintendent from
1919 to 1929. Albright played an important role in the establishment of the National Park Ser-
vice and became its second director.
Opposite the road to Tower Junction are the Mammoth Hot
Springs Hotel and Cabins. Going south from the hotel toward the terraces, you'll find two
eateries and a general store, with parking across the street. There's also a service station and a
large restroom building.
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel is open for summer and winter seasons. A succession of ho-
tels was built on this same site, beginning with the National Hotel (1883-1936). The Nation-
al Hotel's north wing, built in 1911-13, was incorporated into the present Mammoth Hotel,
constructed in 1937. The newer parts of the hotel and the cabins behind it were designed by
architect Reamer, who also created the unique United States map in the hotel's Map Room. It's
made of 15 types of fine wood from nine countries and was carefully restored in 1997.
You'll find five picnic tables opposite the visitor center, two across the road from the
store, and nine near Opal Terrace.