#04: Our Favorite National Park Lodges

Dear Bob and Sue: A National Parks Podcast

Matt and Karen Smith

Society & Culture, Nature, Personal Journals, Places & Travel, Science

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What's it like to wake up with a view of Crater Lake from your bedroom window? In this episode, we gleefully revisit some of our favorite National Park lodges and the adventures we had staying in them. We discuss the "parkitechture" and fascinating history to each of the lodges. We regale some hilarious stories from our stays at Crater Lake Lodge and El Tovar lodge at the Grand Canyon. We also talk about how to get reservations and some fantastic places for sunset viewing, In this episode we discuss: Staying in the largest log structure in the world in Yellowstone NP Watching bears from the deck in Glacier NP Wintertime stay at Zion lodge Ranger programs at Bryce Canyon lodge Twin beds at Paradise Inn in Mt. Rainier NP President Roosevelt's stay in Olympic NP on Lake Crescent An unexpected surprise at Crater Lake Lodge The mule-train journey taken by Matt's shorts in the Grand Canyon The public space at the Ahwahnee Lodge in Yosemite NP Links: To see photos from our travels, visit our Instagram account, or TikTok account Join the conversation on Facebook Our books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have our luggage. It's hot. I remember I was sweating.
0:02.8	And you open the door and I'm behind you. You're going in the door first and I try to get in the door and like almost fall over you because you had stopped.
0:11.8	So I opened the door.
0:13.8	One second later, I could see motion
0:16.0	out of the corner of my eye
0:17.4	and I looked to the left.
0:19.3	I fell backwards into Matt, slammed the door and I what did I yell like run you said
0:28.1	run and I didn't even know why we were running I didn't see any of this. This is the Dear Bob and Sioux Podcast, stories of adventures and
0:49.7	misadventures in the US National Parks and Public Lands.
0:53.8	I'm Karen Smith.
0:55.2	And I'm Matt Smith.
0:56.4	We're the authors of the Deer Bob and Sioux series of books.
0:59.5	In this episode, we're going on a tour of 10 of our favorite national park lodges.
1:04.0	It was really tough for Matt and I to narrow the list down to 10,
1:08.0	so we ended up choosing some of the lodges we love the most.
1:11.0	We don't rank them in any particular order. Instead, we're sharing some of our
1:15.2	stories from these lodges and a few tips if you decide to visit. Because we had so much
1:20.4	to say about each of these amazing lodges.
1:23.3	We're skipping our warm-up segment this episode and going straight to the main topic.
1:28.2	At the end of the show, we'll have our Mailbag segment where we answer a question that we frequently get about what cameras we use
1:34.8	when we travel.
1:37.0	This is going to be a good episode.
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