Club Rides & Full Crews
Group Lodging on the Great Allegheny Passage
Bunk rooms that sleep four and six, twenty-plus tent sites for the overflow, and a booking flow that sizes rooms and railbikes to your exact headcount.
- Big Savage Bunk Room sleeps
- 6
- Braddock's Bunk Room, sleeps 4
- $136.79
- Primitive tent sites
- 20+
- Camping per person
- $17.10
Club rides, extended families, and trail crews all hit the same wall on the Great Allegheny Passage: lodging that keeps the group together. Most trail towns offer a scatter of doubles — fine for a couple, expensive and fragmented for eight riders who planned the trip as a unit.
The Tunnel Hotel in Frostburg, at GAP milepost 15.9 and 300 yards off the trail, is built differently. It's an 1888 railroad inn with true bunk rooms — Braddock's Bunk Room sleeps four, the Big Savage Bunk Room sleeps six — plus deluxe queens with pull-outs that sleep four each, and more than 20 primitive tent sites when the headcount outruns the beds.
The booking flow does the group math for you: tell it your party size and it shows only rooms that sleep the whole group, then sizes every railbike ride to seat everyone. One booking, one checkout, one property — and the Trail Inn Cafe downstairs feeds the whole crew in the morning.
The Tunnel Hotel · 20 Depot St, Frostburg, MD — 300 yards from the GAP trail. Open full map
The Bunk Rooms
Braddock's Bunk Room is the group-ride favorite: bunk beds, a private bath, sleeps four, $136.79 a night — $34.20 a head at capacity. The Big Savage Bunk Room scales up with a queen bed plus two bunk sets, a private bath, and space for six at $169.86, which splits to about $28 per person.
Need conventional beds instead of bunks? The Tunnel Deluxe and Depot Deluxe each pair a queen with a pull-out sofa and sleep four at $91.19, and the Railrider Retreat Suite sleeps four at $125.39. Larger groups simply take several rooms — the hotel's queens start at $79.79 for the couples in the party.
Groups of Seven or More
No single room sleeps seven, so bigger groups split — and the two workable patterns are several rooms under one roof, or primitive camping, where more than 20 tent sites at $17.10 per person swallow a whole club ride. Mixing works too: bunks for some, tents for the rest, everyone on the same property and at the same cafe tables in the morning.
For 10 or more campers, call ahead at 240-943-2048 so sites can be held together. The online booking flow takes parties of up to 20 and flags the camping-or-split guidance automatically once your count hits seven.
Railbikes Sized to the Whole Crew
The group activity next door scales with you. Tracks & Yaks railbikes at 19 Depot Street are priced per bike — tandems seat up to two, quads up to four, mix and match — so a party of ten takes two quads and a tandem on the same departure. Trips run from the 90-minute Woodcock Hollow Express at $89 per tandem ($139 per quad) to the 3-hour, 15-mile Mountain Ridge Rider at $119 per tandem ($199 per quad).
Hotel guests bundle rides into the same booking and checkout as the rooms, which keeps a group trip to a single reservation and a single payment instead of a group-text of Venmo requests.
Why Milepost 15.9 Works for Groups
Frostburg is the classic overnight on the Maryland end of the GAP: it breaks the 23.5-mile climb from Cumberland to the Eastern Continental Divide for westbound groups, and gives eastbound groups a 16-mile downhill final morning. A group strung out by different fitness levels regroups naturally here — the grade never exceeds roughly 1 to 1.75 percent, and the town has real food at the top of the day.
Groups that arrive at different hours don't need a desk clerk to manage it. Check-in is contactless 24 hours a day — each booking gets a door code by SMS — so the fast riders and the sweep riders all let themselves in whenever they roll up. Checkout is 11:00 AM.
Logistics, Money, and the Fine Print
Moving a group without pedaling: The Great Deal Passenger Shuttle covers 25 miles at $39 to $49 per person, and the Bike Train carries riders and bikes from Cumberland up to Frostburg aboard the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad for $45 to $49 per person. The Trail Inn Cafe handles group breakfasts, trail sandwiches, and local beer, chargeable to the rooms.
Book direct at /book — Stripe-secured, no online booking fees. Cancellation is the same plain deal groups plan around: full refund at 72-plus hours, reschedule at 48-plus, nothing back inside those windows, and a full refund or credit if the operator cancels for weather. Group questions move fastest by phone: 240-943-2048.
Tracks & Yaks, right next door
All experiences
Mountain Ridge Rider
The full 15-mile journey through the Brush Tunnel and the Narrows — the deepest ride into the mountains we offer.
from $119
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Woodcock Hollow Express
A 7-mile guided railbike run along the ridge line — the quick, scenic introduction to pedaling the rails.
from $89
Details →The Great Deal Passenger Shuttle
A 25-mile point-to-point shuttle so you can ride the GAP one way. Bring your own bike or add a GAP rental.
from $39
Details →Planning answers, no fluff
Is there a bunk room on the GAP trail in Frostburg?
Two, at The Tunnel Hotel: Braddock's Bunk Room sleeps four with a private bath at $136.79 a night, and the Big Savage Bunk Room sleeps six — a queen plus two bunk sets — at $169.86. The hotel is 300 yards off the GAP at milepost 15.9.
Where can a group of 8 or 10 stay on the Great Allegheny Passage?
Split across rooms at The Tunnel Hotel in Frostburg — bunk rooms sleeping four and six, deluxe queens sleeping four from $91.19 — or use the 20-plus primitive tent sites at $17.10 per person. Groups of 7-plus are easiest in camping or across several rooms; call 240-943-2048 for group planning.
Can a large group keep their campsites together?
Yes — with more than 20 primitive sites there's room for a full club ride, and groups of 10 or more campers should call ahead at 240-943-2048 so sites can be held together. Camping is $17.10 per person with taxes included, and one site is ADA-accessible.
Can our whole group ride railbikes together?
Railbikes are priced per bike and mix freely — tandems seat up to two, quads up to four — so a group fills as many bikes as it needs on one departure. Trips run $89 to $169 per tandem and $139 to $299 per quad from 19 Depot Street, next door to the hotel.
How does group booking work at The Tunnel Hotel?
The direct booking flow at /book starts with your party size, shows only rooms that sleep the whole group, and sizes railbike rides to seat everyone — rooms, camping, and rides land in one Stripe-secured checkout with no online booking fees. Each room's door code arrives by SMS, so staggered arrivals need no coordination.
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