Title: Paradise Inn

Main Text
Advertised as a place "where the flowers and the glaciers meet," Paradise Inn opened on July 1, 1917. Here tourists arrived wearing long skirts and woolen traveling suits, "seeking a renewal of spirit in the vast world out-of-doors."

Today, entering the grand lobby or the dining room with the large timbers and massive stone fireplace is like stepping back into an earlier era. The rustic style of architecture is typical of early National Park Service buildings. Now designated a National Historic Landmark, the Inn is show here in 1920.

Exhibit Panel Description
A single black-and-white historic photo fills the frame of a small, vertically-oriented exhibit panel. The text overlays the top of the photo above a large wooden building with a steeply-angled roof, gabled windows, and a stone fireplace. Early model historic cars are parked in a row in front of the building with men standing next to them. A small box in the lower left corner of the exhibit panel reads "User Fee Project. Your Fee Dollars at Work. Entrance fees were used to produce this exhibit".

Visit This Exhibit Panel
The Paradise Inn exhibit panel is located in front of the Paradise Inn in an island in the middle of the parking area that is filled with blooming wildflowers in summer. The Paradise Inn is open during the summer only, typically from May to October, and the exhibit panel is only installed during the summer as well. While the Paradise area is open year-round, the area around the Paradise Inn is covered in deep snow during the winter.