Stay Green in the Parks: Sustainable food production, dining and lodging in Yellowstone and Grand Teton

More visitors every year to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks are taking an active interest in sustainable travel options. Visiting a national park can often remind visitors of important environmental concerns, and dining and lodging providers are increasingly sensitive to not only projecting a green image, but operating in a truly sustainable fashion.

Yellowstone Gate has prepared Stay Green in the Parks, a special report looking at sustainable dining, lodging and food production in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and their gateway communities.

If you’ve ever wondered where your food comes from, where your restaurant table scraps go or how your hotel room is heated, you might be surprised at what you learn in this series. From icelandic sheep to chairs made of seat belts, from organic goat cheese to bottled water, from biodynamically farmed vegetables to recycled drapes — food producers, hotel operators and chefs across the region are doing amazing and creative work to help protect and preserve the beautiful places you love while delivering authentic, nutritious and engaging dining and travel experiences.

So check out Stay Green in the Parks, and if you happen to chat with one of the people featured in our series, let them know you read about them at Yellowstone Gate.


Concessioner Grand Teton Lodging Company offers severl items made from scratch using organic, sustainably raised ingredients in its Mural Dining Room at the Grand Teton Lodge. (courtesy photo - click to enlarge)

Options growing for sustainable dining in Yellowstone and Grand Teton

A rising interest among both restaurant owners and diners is driving a burgeoning movement in sustainable, farm-to-table dining around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Locals and visitors to the parks and their gateway communities have a growing number of choices for sustainable Grand Teton and Yellowstone dining.

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Hotel Terra in Teton Village, Wyo. received a silver certification level from the U.S. Green Building Council. (courtesy photo - click to enlarge)

Yellowstone and Grand Teton hotels get creative to find sustainability

Lodging companies like Xanterra in Yellowstone and Grand Teton Lodging Company and others in the parks and gateway communities are making a wide array of creative innovations to operate their properties more sustainably, and to make them more attractive to travelers.

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Cody resident Amy Quick browses produce offered by Shoshone River Farm at a farmers' market in Cody, Wyo. (Elijah Cobb/click to enlarge)

Yellowstone and Grand Teton food producers reap benefits from sustainability

A growing list of farmers and ranchers around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks are using a mix of old ways and new techniques to supply sustainably produced food to travelers who crave authenticity and quality. Premiere purveyors in the parks are helping to drive a sustainable Yellowstone food movement that allows small producers to grow their businesses and maintain agricultural production across Yellowstone country.

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