I manage a handful of cabins and lodges in the Island Park area. It all started one year when my extended family decided we would like to rent a large cabin somewhere and have a family reunion. I had stayed in Island Park once, many years prior, and suggested the location to the family. They were game, as most of them had never been to Yellowstone National Park, and none had ever been to Island Park.
We stayed in a great cabin in a quiet, wooded area. Although we did a lot of Yellowstone exploring, we found that we loved hanging out in Island Park as well. We went to Mesa Falls, Big Springs, and Mack's Inn, where we saw our first ever moose! We went horseback riding in Harriman Park, and whitewater rafting near Yellowstone.
Strangely enough, Dad was absent a lot of the time. He was off wandering, we thought, which was not unusual for him, as he often had a hard time sitting still and relaxing. What we didn't know was the whole time he was off wandering, he was really looking for a cabin we, as a family, could purchase! He was having such a great time that he wanted us to have a place of our own where we could get together as a family whenever we wanted.
Well, Dad found a cabin...a 3900 sq. ft home in the Mack's Inn area. That was fall of 2004. We didn't have the funds to just go buy a second home, so we decided we would rent our home out to vacationers, with the goal of giving families a place where they could make wonderful memories as we had done at the cabin we rented. After remodeling and decorating, we opened for business Christmas of 2004, naming our cabin "The Gathering Place", as we hoped it would become for many families. It worked, and we have been renting our cabin out ever since, and have used it numerous times for our own gatherings. I eventually decided to manage a few other cabins, and so Island Park Yellowstone Cabins was born!
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