Here's Our Favorite Hotel For Every National Park
Our handpicked hotel list for every park so you can skip the research, book smart, and sleep well.
We’ve stayed just about everywhere you can stay near a national park. After years of filming and traveling across the country, we’ve built this list to save you hours of research. It’s clean, convenient, and regularly updated. One solid pick per park (with a few exceptions for parks that have multiple units etc) that’s reasonably priced, well-located, and not gross.
This is a paid subscriber resource. It lives in the Resources tab of our Substack so bookmark it, revisit it anytime, and use it to plan your next park trip.
How We Picked
We don’t include park lodges (with a couple of exceptions where there is really nothing else) as they are more well-known or overpriced resorts. This list is just for hotels near the parks. Maybe we’ll do our favorite lodges as a separate post. Each listing meets three simple criteria:
Close enough to the park to make your mornings easy (unless that’s just not an option and then we do the best)
Clean, well-reviewed, and comfortable
Costs less than most in-park options or luxury stays nearby
We prioritize spots that feel like a smart value the kind of place we’d actually stay ourselves (and have).
This is a living list. We’ll keep adding and adjusting based on new openings, closures, or better options. You’ll notice a couple of parks don’t have listings and that’s because there really just isn’t anything we’d recommend.
If you have a suggestion or feel strongly about one of these hotels by all means drop us a comment!