 The lodge is open from April to mid-November, with two weeks starting in the end of August reserved for the Dartmouth First-Year Trips.The staff provides a family-style dinner every night by reservation only, open to community members, Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, tourists, and Dartmouth professors.In summer, the lodge also houses the Trail Crew, a crew of Dartmouth Outing Club students who help maintain the seventeen Dartmouth Cabins and the of Appalachian Trail between Hanover and Mount Moosilauke.