Firehole Village was a proposed visitor services development in

Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of Wyoming, with small portions extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U ...

, planned to divert development away from the sensitive area around

Old Faithful Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geotherma ...

. The project was proposed under the

Mission 66 Mission 66 was a United States National Park Service ten-year program that was intended to dramatically expand Park Service visitor services by 1966, in time for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Park Service. When the National P ...

program, which sought to improve visitor services and park infrastructure throughout the

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system. Although Firehole Village was never built, it was complemented by projects at

Grant Village Grant Village is a developed area of Yellowstone National Park, offering lodging, camping and other visitor services. It is located on the southwest side of Yellowstone Lake, about south of West Thumb Geyser Basin. Grant Village was developed by ...

and

Canyon Village A canyon (; archaic British English spelling: ''cañon''), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tendency to ...

, both of which were partially executed. The Firehole Village project, initially named "Wonderland," envisioned the demolition of the

Old Faithful Inn The Old Faithful Inn is a hotel in the Western United States, western United States with a view of the Old Faithful Geyser, located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The Inn has a multi-story log lobby, flanked by long frame wings containin ...

, Old Faithful Lodge and other development in the Old Faithful area, restoring the area to a more natural appearance. The new development was planned for the area of the Lower Geyser Basin. First proposed in 1955, the Firehole Village plan was finally abandoned in 1964.

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