The Lyle Hotel’s

A historic railroad hotel built in 1905, The Lyle Hotel, was instrumental in the construction of the SP & S Railway and the development of industrial commerce and tourism in the Columbia River Gorge. Hosting industrialists, managers, workers, and tourists the hotel has always been a gathering place for the community and visitors. Lyle, Washington with its ferry boat landing and railway moving wool, wheat, and other exports to Portland bustled with business and tourism from 1905 through the early 1970s when the dam-building was completed. Lyle in 1941 even had its very own airport.