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The Old Faithful Inn, with its imposing scale, informal massing and great, pitched roof, architecturally echoes the shapes of the surrounding mountains. A semicircular grandstand faces the most famous geyser in the United States, and receives a rush of spectators who descend upon the site hourly during the summer season.

Twenty-nine year old architect Robert Reamer was hired by the Yellowstone Park Association in 1902 to design a lodge for the Old Faithful area. The siting of the inn was ingenious, skewed in relationship to the entry drive to allow an unobstructed view of Old Faithful for the approaching visitor.

The building was constructed in three major phases: the 1903 original section with the prominent gable roof, dining rooms, and kitchen wing to the south, and guest-room wings to the east and west; the 1913-1914 east wing; and the 1927 west wing.

The foundation of the 1903 portion is stone and concrete with a stone veneer. The first-floor structure contains load bearing log walls and log framing. Upper stories are of milled lumber and log framing; exteriors are sheathed in yard-long redwood shingles with the two lower courses sawn into diamond patterns.

The 3 mile loop to Mystic Falls and Biscuit Basin Overlook encounters varied river, forest and plateau scenery, and has a moderate elevation change of 550 feet. The falls are a spectacular cascade formed at a steep, narrow place in the canyon of the Little Firehole River, while the overlook has a fine view not only of the basin but also of several miles of the Firehole River valley, with Upper Geyser Basin in the distance. The loop hike is best done in the clockwise direction, visiting the falls first, since the elevation gain (up the river canyon) is more gentle, and the overlook appears suddenly and dramatically, rather than approaching gradually during the steep climb from the flat lands below.