10 DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL PARKS. 



From the railroad terminus the Cody- Sylvan Pass Motor Co. 

 transported tourists to the Lake Hotel in the park, where they were 

 transferred to horse-drawn stages operating on the park &quot; circle.&quot; 



Still a fourth entrance, that on the south, is planned. It is my hope 

 that it will be opened for regular tourist travel by next season. This 

 gateway will afford an unsurpassed opportunity to view the Teton 

 Mountains, Jackson Lake, and the other distinguished features of 

 Jackson Hole. The railroad terminus nearest this entrance to the 

 park is the town of Victor on the Oregon Short Line. When roads 

 now building are completed, travel by private motor car through 

 Jackson Hole and the southern entrance will be heavy indeed. 



Automobile travel in Yellowstone Park was very heavy during the 

 season which has just closed; 3,445 automobiles, carrying 14,980 

 tourists, entered and toured the park. The majority of these visitors 

 patronized the hotels and camps, thus materially augmenting the 

 revenues of these enterprises in a season when their income from 

 regular sources was considerably reduced by special conditions. To 

 accommodate those motorists who carried their own camp equipment, 

 four large automobile shelter camps were established near the prin 

 cipal points of interest in the park. 



AUTOMOBILES TO SUPPLANT HOUSES. 



Because the stage horses on the belt-line road were unaccustomed 

 to automobiles it has been necessary to operate both horse-drawn 

 and motor-driven vehicles on schedules that prevented the two types 

 of traffic from meeting anywhere in the park. This was somewhat 

 cumbersome and caused some inconvenience, but the schedule was a 

 very reasonable one and was generally obeyed implicitly. The timje 

 has come now, however, when all transportation lines in the park 

 must be motorized, and steps are to be taken at once to bring the 

 change around. 



I have no doubt that the antiquated method of handling tourists 

 in Yellowstone National Park was responsible in part for the great 

 reduction in railroad travel there this season. Visitors have always 

 been rushed through Yellowstone, with no encouragement whatever 

 to spend vacation periods in the park. Neither have facilities for 

 making long stays pleasant been provided, although splendid hotels, 

 with every modern convenience, are operated each season. Golf 

 * links, tennis courts, swimming pools, and other equipment for out 

 door pastime and exercise should be provided by concessions, and 

 the park should be extensively advertised as a place to spend the 

 summer instead of five or six days of hurried sight-seeing under 

 constant pressure to keep moving. Trail trips into out-of-the-way 

 parts of the park should be developed. When tourists have the op 

 portunity to enjoy Yellowstone National Park under different con- 



