The original influencers? These 100-year-old lodges built the 'cabin porn' aesthetic before Instagram existed.
GRAND LODGES tells the story of Yellowstone's Old Faithful Lodge, first of the grand park lodges, and Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel, considered by many the park system's most luxurious. CANYON LODGES features El Tovar, on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, along with Zion Lodge in Utah's Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon Lodge in Bryce Canyon National Park, and the Grand Canyon Lodge on the canyon's North Rim.
Cinematography
Sweeping shots that make you forget it's basically a real estate tour.
Production
They actually got inside these booked-solid lodges—no small feat.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Ahwahnee was renamed 'The Majestic' in 2016 due to a trademark dispute, then changed back in 2019 after legal settlement—peak bureaucratic drama.
These lodges invented 'parkitecture,' a style so influential that Disney copied it for Wilderness Lodge and countless suburban McMansions followed.
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