Open mid-May to September. The St. Mary Valley, with its snaking lake and bright red mountains, is the scenic attraction of Rising Sun Motor Inn. Coffee shop, camp store, public showers, gift shop, and boat tours. Lake McDonald Lodge Complex George Snyder built the first hotel and hunting lodge in the parks here in 1895, when the area was wild country. The hotel is still decorated with animal trophies.
Huge logs support the lobby's high ceiling.
Famous western artist Charles M. Russell is said to have drawn the pictographs on the lobby's immense stone fireplace. A short walkway leads to the Lake McDonald shore, where tour and rental boats are available. The Lake McDonald complex has 100 rooms in the main building, private cabins, and an adjacent motor inn. Restaurant, coffee shop, lounge, gift shop, camp store, boat tours, horseback tours, post office, and service station. Open early June to late September.