The Yellowstone Moose Lodge

09/26/2025

A little fall color! The creek behind the Yellowstone Moose Lodge!

09/22/2025

A bit of Statehood quarrels and fist fight trivia from the 1800’s

Although the postal address is Island Park today. It was West Yellowstone Montana, for more years than Idaho. This area really belonged to Montana years ago and West Yellowstone was the postal address. The boundaries moved to encompass the valley along Henry’s Lake due to a geographical dispute and the division of Hebegen Lake and Henrys by Black Mountain, the mountain in front of the Lodge. The surveyors for the two states eventually gave this part to Idaho and Kept Hebegen Lake in Montana. The vast majority of people living North of Henry’s lake even today consider where we sit”Montana. Tell anyone there including ranchers in the valley yhis is Idaho and its fighting words and a very heated discussion.
Here was a map that that didn’t even have Henry’s on the Idaho side due to the geographical dispute!
Where the bucking horse was the actual Montana border and the actual entrance to Island Park off of the Targhee Pass. Henry’s Lake was originally Montana and for many of its early homesteaders and settlers it still is considered Montana.

09/19/2025

Many of you prefer to check in with Airbnb and pay directly through them and see future openings. The link is below.

This year we are totally sold out but a few days next week.

I want to Thank all of you from many foreign countries who have stayed this year in our unique Lodge.

Rates for 2026 will go up. The rates we have had are from 2022 and have made many many improvements.

We are booked in May and much of June.

Thank you

The Yellowstone Moose Lodge

08/30/2025

Our guests keep giving us great reviews. We are near end of season but have a few weeks left of open days.

07/02/2025

Bear:
So long renters…… it’s been fun seeing you run…. 😂 😂 😂

Renters: You need to train these bears not to run after us when we’re running away! 🙄

06/30/2025

Our guest said” oh my god I’ve never seen so many wild flowers, your lodge is absolutely incredible, so wild”

06/29/2025

Right down the road towards Island Park. The Yogi crowd does more to harm these bears than legalized hunting would. Multiple bears are euthanized due to feeding Yogi when they become a problem for the Disney crowd.

The Disney crowd the most dangerous group of people to wildlife worldwide!

On June 26, Idaho Fish and Game, in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, euthanized an adult male grizzly after it had become food-conditio

05/14/2025

My my they cut down my trees in front to paint my lodge! How fun is that. We are on Raynolds Pass.

04/03/2025

Our neighborhood just a mile south of the Lodge

03/31/2025

First one out in front of the lodge and it’s not April fools!

03/22/2025

Soon…..

01/15/2025

Winter skiers and snowmobilers take tremendous caution.

Get the full Forecast for January 15:
www.mtavalanche.com/forecast

Stability is improving slowly in the Southern Madison and Southern Gallatin Ranges and the mountains around West Yellowstone. Weak layers buried 1-3 feet deep make human-triggered persistent slab avalanches likely on steep slopes. Without fresh snow, obvious signs of instability, such as collapsing and shooting cracks, will decrease. For now, seek out great powder turns and ride in low-angle terrain, avoiding slopes steeper than 30 degrees. The danger is CONSIDERABLE.

The danger is MODERATE across the rest of the forecast area due to persistent weak layers in the snowpack in Island Park and Cooke City and slabs of wind-drifted snow in the mountains around Bozeman and Big Sky. Lean on careful terrain evaluation to reduce the chances of triggering a slide and the consequences if one occurs.

📸 Large avalanche on Woody Ridge near Cooke City. Photo: N. Gaddy