Mountain Motels in the Pacific Northwest

Emerald Valley Inn

Port Angeles, WA

Individually decorated cottage-style rooms, no televisions, and a working farmyard of goats, chickens, emus, and one orange polydactyl cat. The cat is why half the guests come back.

Hotel Rio Vista

Winthrop, WA

Every room at this family-owned Winthrop property has a private deck above the confluence of the Methow and Chewuch Rivers, with handcrafted wood furniture, local artist works on the walls, and a riverside hot tub waiting at the end of the day. The Methow Valley trail network and North Cascades access are both within reach.

The Stardust Motel

Wallace, ID

Built in 1962 as a tribute from a man to the woman he loved, the mural rooms and mid-century neon inside that story are still here. Movie nights on the lawn come summer, in-room bike storage when the season calls for it.

Cascade Motel

Oakridge, OR

Oakridge has some of the best mountain bike trails in the Northwest, and this veteran-run basecamp is built for the people who ride them, with secure bike storage, a wash station, and spotless rooms a few minutes from the trailheads. It is unpretentious and dialed in, the kind of place where you drop the bike, clean up, and are back on the trail by morning.

Deep Water Inn

Chelan, WA

Seven rooms in a 1912 downtown Chelan property, all on the ground floor with private outdoor areas and views toward Lake Chelan, in a town that has grown into one of Washington's most active wine and lake recreation destinations. The Brunch Box program prepares boxed breakfasts for guests heading out for the day.

Mt. Gardner Inn

Winthrop, WA

A family-owned property half a mile from Winthrop's downtown, at the doorstep of the Methow Valley trail network, with clean rooms and fair rates that make multi-day stays in Washington's best cross-country ski destination genuinely practical. Owner-operators with more than a decade of top TripAdvisor rankings in Winthrop keep the standards honest.

Obertal Inn

Leavenworth, WA

House-made breakfast including the signature apple strudel, and a renovation that went far beyond what was required. One block from the pedestrian core with genuinely earned hospitality.