Togwotee Mountain Lodge

A very nice, clean hotel out in the boonies. Staff were friendly and helpful. The room was very clean with high quality linens and pillows. Everything worked well — the TV, internet, etc. All the toiletries you need were in the bathroom, and not the cheap stuff.
Contrary to previous reviews, we found this hotel very peaceful and quiet. Maybe because the drunken snowboarding crowds had not arrived yet?
The restaurant had excellent food and we ate two breakfasts and dinners there with no one in our party of six disappointed. Booze is reasonably priced in the bar. One complaint is that they only had one guy working the bar and waitering, so he was swamped, but did his best and actually we did not have to wait too long for food or drinks.
They also have a laundry for guests to use which in very nice if you’re on a road trip. Two nice viewing balconies are upstairs, which we used for medicating and watching the blood moon eclipse.
We found this hotel to be a very well-​run, relaxing place.

We were very pleased with the accommodations at Togwotee Lodge. The cabin is very spacious, has a useable kitchen area, very clean bathrooms, and overall welcoming.
The staff are all very friendly and helpful. It’s great that there are two restaurants as well if you have had a long day and don’t want to go anywhere too far to eat.
Loved the complimentary coffee in the lobby and also the 24 hour laundry onsite.
Would stay here again and recommend it.

We stayed here a week ago. The room was great with the bunk beds for my kids. The beds were super comfy. Nice accommodations. The hotel was further from the national parks than I thought. It is 15 minutes from Moran junction. Very nice staff.

You will need to bring your cat if you want to live in the cabin. Why? Because there are rats in the cabin. Not in just my room, but also found in my friend’s cabin.

OMG, I loved my stay here. The only 2 things that I didn’t like was that there was no elevator service and no A/​C just to circulate the air. It did get cold do I had to get up and close the opened window. They have a restaurant and bar on site and the Bartender is the best ! Can’t remember his name but he has a GREAT mustache! AWESOME guy! They have the best bison burgers too! The best part if you like being away from civilization is the the closest place is about 8 miles down the road! Other than that, they have cabins with kitchenettes but I stayed in a room only! They had a hot tub but in another building by the log cabins tho. Enjoyed my stay and do recommend thus place with 5 stars!

I stayed here after a day at Yellowstone National Park. It is located pretty far away from any sort of civilization, but if you find yourself in the area this charming and quaint lodge is a great stop! The staff is friendly and the restaurant located in the lodge has excellent food!
The reason I gave it 4 stars was because there was no air conditioning in the rooms :/

It is very disappointing to read the negative reviews. We are NOT staying in the lodge. We staying in a one bedroom log cabin. Our cabin is precious. It is exactly what I was hoping it would be. A nice and clean little log cabin. There is a nice little patio outside. The room is spotless and comfortable. I’m trying to adjust to the altitude change and this is the perfect place to do so.
This lodge is in a somewhat secluded area, but there is a gas station at the Lodge, 2 restaurants, a place to pick up snacks, a gift shop and laundry facilities. The drive to the Tetons is a nice one.

I’ll give this place a two just got its cleanliness! Other then that DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME NOR MONEY on this place! First off I had made payments ahead of time to make sure my husband and I had money to spend in Yellowstone while we were out there with two little ones at home and house payment budgeting is one thing we have to do! With that said we got there around 11am and checked in at the front desk (we just drove 9 ½ hours to get here) with the lady informing us their check in time isn’t until 4pm! No one notified us of this!
After driving around for a couple hours we finally were able to check in and get settled for the night till the next day I check my account to have $ 400 charge from them! When I asked the girl at the front desk she said it was a broken or damage fee for them, now this fee has already been charged OUT OF MY ACCOUNT even to mind you I just said we were on a budget out here they charged it as soon as we arrived here, so I don’t see how any damage could have been done! Staff is not helpful in any of this it is young teenagers trying to run a front desk as a summer job. So like I said PLEASE don’t waste your time NOR MONEY on this place only reason why I give a two is cleanliness of cabins otherwise FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! This place is horrible!

— tl;dr:
1) Avoid any rooms directly above the Red Fox Saloon (their bar).
2) Otherwise, expect the noise to last till midnight (when the bar closes).
3) If you ask for compensation, expect no more than a nominal free breakfast.
— If you have one minute:
We lost half a day of our road trip here because:
1) Their bar right below us played loud music until we complained twice.
2) The staff provided misinformation about when the noise would stop and when we could speak with the manager.
3) The front desk manager, Branden French, was in the bar that night but did not speak with us until 10am the next day.
They allegedly refunded us 25% of the room’s price, but we have not seen any confirmation or follow-​up yet.
— If you have ten more minutes, here is why it will also happen to you:
Annoying guests with loud music from the bar until midnight seems to be a profitable thus well-​established business model at this property. Here is my analysis:
1) According to the lodge’s layout, there are up to three rooms affected by the bar’s noise.
2) Each room’s guests would get «complimentary» breakfast only if they complain.
3) Breakfast for each person is $ 10 (actual cost should be much lower). Assuming two-​people rooms, the lodge loses $ 20 for each room with a noise complaint.
4) That is, dealing with noise complaints would cost the lodge $ 60 daily at the maximum.
5) The Red Fox Saloon (bar) runs from noon till midnight. If each guest pays $ 30, the lodge would only need two bar guests in this 12-​hour period to break even.
6) There are likely more than two bar guests per night. The night we were there, the music ran from we checked in around 6:30pm till we complained around 11pm.
To complete this model, those noisy rooms may be advertised with lower rates to lure people in. Another review’s management response mentioned that different «packages» have different refund policies, and that may help explain why it was hard to negotiate any meaningful refund.
In fact, the staff’s response implied that the noise problem is well-​known, if not intentional, and that the staff are experienced, if not trained, to fend off customer complaints:
1) When I mentioned the noise in the room, all front desk staff immediately said something like «oh, it’s the bar» or «it’s usually the bar».
2) The manager was in the bar when we complained but did not respond (although they claimed that the music volume was turned down).
3) When I asked to speak with the manager, all front desk staff tried to avoid putting us in contact. One told us that he was not in (although he was physically in the bar). The other refused to contact him and made us wait an hour.
4) There manager said, both to us and to Expedia, that they only offer free breakfast «for this type of complaints».
— If you have five more minutes, here is why you should avoid this hotel in general:
I find it hard to trust any company whose customers are not the first priority but just a mean to profit. I was somewhat amused by their employees’ frankness about their carelessness for the customers, and it sometimes reminded me of the Grandma Millie conversation between the Enron traders (
). Here are a few examples:
1) When we went to the front desk to complain at 11pm. The lady said, «the bar closes at midnight.» She might have been trying to comfort us by providing an upper bound of our annoyance, but another interpretation would be, «The bar is closing at midnight anyway, so why don’t you just hang on for another hour?»
2) Branden the manager was sitting in the very bar listening to the very music and neglecting his customers’ problems, and he very frankly told us, «I was in the bar, I just wasn’t working.»
3) The manager who Branden escalated this matter to cited «company policy» when he refused to either solve our problem or provide a way to escalate. I would usually expect this kind of responses from bureaucratic government agencies instead of businesses.
Thank you for reading this far. To summarize, this hotel has service quality problems which its staff willingly ignore. Therefore, unless you, my brave (and patient) fellow travelers, prove me wrong, I would not recommend Togwotee Mountain Lodge to anybody.
PS. Online reviews seem to be consistent with our experience:
1) The bar is loud till midnight
2) 10pm quiet time is nominal:
3) Front desk performance:
4) Misrepresentation:

First and foremost: Moran WY is not a town — it’s a building in the middle of nowhere on the way to somewhere. Togwotee, though a nice little grouping of lodge and cabins, was not what I was hoping for and I’m pretty sure I read as much as I could before booking.
We were placed in a room on the 2^nd floor in the main lodge with a very loud group who all had their doors open and were roaming from room to room. The fortunately all shut up at a reasonable hour but did start up again at 8am the next day. Our room was nothing special, though it was clean and cozy. All of the staff was incredible and helpful. Since we were nowhere near anything and it was snowing we pretty much had no choice but to eat in the restaurant for dinner. I’m glad we did because it was excellent. There was a special soup of the day which was recommended to us — carrot ginger. Oh. My. Gawd. I wanted to stick my snout in a tureen of it! My husband ordered a pastrami sandwich with fries and it rivaled any NY deli. I had a fantastic elk burger with sweet potato fries. Ok, this chef needs to get himself to the big city — preferably our neighborhood in Dallas/​Fort Worth. Obviously a different chef for the breakfast because it was absolutely dreadful. Dreadful and stupidly overpriced for a cold (supposed to be hot) buffet of disgusting food and crummy coffee. There was some sort of casserole that may have been an egg base but it had a very strange and disgusting flavor. The pancakes would’ve been fine if they weren’t all ice cold. I really wish I could get my money back on that breakfast and I highly suggest you skip it entirely.
We also greatly enjoyed the hot tubs. This place has a nice set-​up and lodgy traveler feel but I think it was very overpriced for what you get and I really wish it was closer to a city with things to do.

My dad got my family the suite at the lodge for 2 nights while we visited Grand Teton. The drive to the lodge is scenic and beautiful, but far from the park. We arrived about half an hour before check in and the front desk refused to let us check in early. Not even a minute.
For some odd reason, the front desk member, I can’t remember his name, must have had a rough day because he was super irate with about every guest that talked to him. He didn’t want to give the hotel wifi password, wasn’t knowledgable about the area, and basically was hiding in the back room avoiding everybody. Fun stuff.
Now when Papa Chang normally books suites, he delivers. But the suite at the lodge is no more than a glorified cabin-​looking room. There was a shoddy «living room» with a tv and a sofa. Then a «master bedroom» with a BUNK BED. Yes you heard right. My 19 year old brother got bottom and poor old 23-​year old Liz had to climb up a frail ladder only to be sleeping 1 foot away from the ceiling. The amount of head bumps into the ceiling during our 2 night stay was about 10 times too many.
Next to the bunk bed «room» (that is separated from the master bedroom via an ceiling to floor curtain reminiscent of the magic carpet) is a tiny room with a shower, and the room next to that is a room with a toilet, and the room next to that is a room straight out of a horror movie with hangers and a coffee maker.
The lodge has a hot tub, but it is in the cabin area (aka bear area). It is walkable, but granted bears are often lurking there, I would suggest driving. The hot tub area is nothing special. If it’s a colder night, it’d probably feel nice. But when we visited it was about ⁷⁰⁄₈₀ degrees.
When we checked out, we were hit with a bill of approximately $ 230 A NIGHT. We were charged extra because my brother and I stayed in the room. It was an extra $ 30 a person if you have more than 2 people. I guess the bunk bed I stayed on was just for decoration?
I would not recommend this place unless you enjoy the thrill of lodging with bears, sleeping on the tallest bunk bed known to mankind, and paying the rate of a Ritz room. Stay on site at a Grand Teton Lodge and save yourself some money and a headache!

Nice lodge but very loud. We stayed in a room on the second floor if the lodge and there were only three hours during the night which I couldn’t hear guests moving loudly about. It seems the floors and walls are very thin. Perhaps the cabins provide a quieter setting.

Great place to stay. Friendly staff, nice rustic feel to this place. The food in the the restaurant was excellent, and the bar is really old fashioned with a great beer selection. Only down side is there’s not a lot for young kids to do.

This place would be awesome if it weren’t for the obnoxious snow mobile guys (guests). When they leave the bar at 10 at night they ride through the cabin areas thing at least 30 mph (the speed limit is 10 mph), while revving their engines. Quiet time is 10:00. That’s about when I go to bed, so it was VERY annoying to hear the snow mobiles (or really large bumble bees) doing donuts right outside our cabin and driving by crazy fast and loud. We complained to the office and within the hour, the guys were right outside our cabin, louder than ever. By the second night we were ready to leave; however, we still have TWO more nights to go. It is miserable! My boyfriend and I were pumped about snow mobiling until this experience, now we would rather cancel everything and go on down to Jackson!
Other than the obnoxious snow mobilers, the front desk staff must have still been drunk from the previous night because they didn’t seem to have a clue about anything. The management is awful and they don’t monitor or patrol the grounds to keep people in check.
On a positive note, the food at the restaurant in the lodge is actually pretty good. The pizza wasn’t cooked completely, but the chicken and dumplins were pretty tasty. The cabins are nice and cozy. And I would definitely recommend the dog sled tour if you do stay here, or are in the area. You’ll get an amazing view of the Tetons.
All in all, I will NEVER, EVER stay here again! If you like to party and act a fool, then this place is just for you.
I’m from Alabama and these people are more redneck than anyone I’ve ever met. This is definitely the WORST place I have ever stayed.

We had a dog with us, and Meagan quickly upgraded us to a cabin for a small fee so he wouldn’t have to sleep in the truck. The cabin was very comfortable. The restaurant, Grizzly Steakhouse, is incredible! Excellent service and incredible food. It’s obvious they made quite an investment in their staff. 5-​Stars and waaaay better than the lodges we stayed at in Yellowstone.

My wife and I stayed in a little cabin at Togwotee for one night while visiting Yellowstone during the first week of June. Needless to say, there was still five feet of snow on the ground, but the roads were cleared and the cabin was in immaculate condition. We grilled outside on the provided grill with firewood they provided, then had a roaring fire going in the fireplace inside. We loved that these «rustic» cabins had WiFi and cable.
We’ll definitely stay at Togwotee again.

Stayed in the cabins and had a great time. It is a rather rustic place, but the cabins were clean and included kitchenettes. The restaurant has great food and the bar staff is super friendly. If you are on your way to Yellowstone/​Teton and need somewhere to stop before to overnight I would definitely recommend it. It’s in the middle of nowhere but has a gas station and enough stuff to do. Also a tip: It’s a great place to stay if you want to snowmobile in Wyoming. They have a great winter atmosphere.

This was a nice quiet place to stay outside of Yellowstone. Since Yellowstone lodges could be expensive, we stayed in Moran, which is about 60 – 70 miles south. There isn’t anything around besides the main building that includes a small gift shop, restaurant, and convenience store. It has its own gas station, but opens and closes at irregular hours. They also have clean hot tubs to use until 11 pm. We stayed in a cabin and it was very decent. It had a comfy sofa, a rustic but clean kitchen area, microwave, 2 stove tops, toaster, dishes and utensils. It had a tv in the living area and a tv in the bedroom. The water they use is natural mountain spring water and it was great to drink right out of the faucet. The shower was very nice. Always had hot water and Neutrogena shampoo products. They have free wi-​fi (just get the code at the front desk). Beds were okay. Not as comfortable, but maybe because I’m pregnant. They have heaters for the night and provide many pillows. All in all, I wouldn’t mind coming here again but I would also be open to staying somewhere else. It is pretty expensive, so you really don’t get a great deal out of it. It does provide everything you actually need for a camping/​mountain trip. So if everything else is book, this would be the next best thing.