You don’t need a camp stove to eat well while visiting America’s national parks, said Jenna Schnuer in BonAppetit.com. The grandest dining room in the entire park system might be the soaring, 86-year-old hall at Yellowstone’s Ahwahnee Hotel, but other park greats are scattered from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific.
Jordan Pond House Acadia National Park, Maine. Acadia is “like a greatest hits album for Maine”: ocean, lakes, mountains, and—on a lawn overlooking Jordan Pond—this teahouse/restaurant. Open May to late-October, its seafood-centric menu has a “wicked killah” lobster roll, and the star popovers are “made, we’re pretty sure, of air and fairy dust.” jordanpondhouse.com
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