The rooms for the guide school are in the same building as our classroom. This is the original lodge that started it all, a log building with spectacular views of Paradise Valley. All rooms have twin beds and private baths, and you will have access to laundry facilities. Linens, towels, etc. are all supplied.

Meals are large and delicious. Guide school students actually eat with our guides, which makes for great insight into the life of a guide. Breakfast is fruit, sausage and bacon, eggs, pancakes, and more made to order. Lunch is the same excellent lunch our guests get; sandwiches, salad, fruit, chips, dessert and drinks, all served on the water. Dinner is simple but good, and no one has ever gone hungry at our place. Special dietary needs can be met with advance notice. We have a great bar with a good wine selection and a very good beer selection. You may bring hard liquor, if you like.

Fly fishing students will have upgraded rooms, gourmet meals, and daily maid service. They will take their meals in the dining room with our lodge guests and enjoy the best cuisine our Cordon Bleu trained chefs can create. The deluxe package entitles students to all the privileges that guests of Hubbard's Yellowstone Lodge receive.

We have been taking people fishing on Merrell Lake for over 25 years. Our original, 2 bedroom lodge is now the owner's residence. 4 rooms were added to that building, then our main lodge was built in the 80's, followed by another building for our fly shop, storage facilities, and 6 additional rooms. Most recently, we added another lodge with 4 rooms. The main lodge(2nd picture) has been renovated many times, including the merger of several rooms into larger rooms, a glassed in dining facility overlooking the lake, a bar, a large, sheltered back porch with serving facilities, and many other minor improvements.

The lodge is in the middle of our 10,000 acre cattle/dude ranch, which borders Yellowstone National Park. We do a lot of horseback riding, and we have miles and miles of hiking trails. We take horses up to an alpine lake for lunch and fishing. Sight seeing in Yellowstone National Park is just down the road, a week all by itself for some.

We fish our 85 acre spring fed lake, Merrell Lake. Tom Miner Creek runs for miles through our property, providing excellent small stream fishing. 30 miles of the Yellowstone River are visible from our lodge, and we float it nearly every day. We fish the north section of Yellowstone Park, including the Madison, Firehole, Upper Yellowstone, Lamar, Slough Creek, Soda Butte, Gallatin, Gardiner, Lava Creek, and many lakes. We also fish the world famous spring creeks outside of Livingston; DePuy's, Armstrong's(O'Hair's), and Nelson's.