A small ranch on a forested mountainside in the Bitterroot Valley — intimate, enclosed, and deliberately private.
A lodge on the Yellowstone River at the park's northern gate, in the driest and most open country in this guide.
A lodge on a clear cold trout river outside Bozeman, in open valley ground with three ranges around it.
A modern lodge in Paradise Valley, on the Yellowstone River between two ranges — a valley wide enough to keep its light.
A pale colonial-revival hotel on the shore of a very large lake at nearly seven thousand eight hundred feet.
A hotel beside terraces of white travertine that the hot water rebuilds continuously — a landscape that is never the same twice.
A hotel on a glacial lake in the Many Glacier valley, where a mountain stands directly across the water from the front door.
A railway hotel on the plains edge of Glacier, whose great hall stands on rows of enormous whole fir trunks.
A 1904 log hotel whose lobby rises seven storeys in lodgepole pine — a building made of the forest it stands in.
A waterfront pub on the canal at Lewes — a dark bar, a deck over the water, and a working channel beyond it.