Old West Cookout

Yellowstone National Park


The Roosevelt Lodge activities center offers this fun cookout, with steak, beans and the kind of cowboy coffee you have to filter through your teeth. Kids will love it. The price includes a wagon ride out to the site of the former Yancey Hotel in Pleasant Valley. Book at least six months ahead, especially for July or August.

Swap the wagon ride for a one-/two-hour horse ride for an extra $24/31.


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