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Northeast
22 hotels
Atlantic Eyrie Lodge
Brentwood Hotel
A 1950s motel two owners turned into a tight little design hotel — twelve rooms, a walk from Broadway and the track.
Daunt's Albatross Motel
Family-run since 1960, blocks from the village and the beach — the last of the honest, unrenovated Montauk motels.
East Rock Inn
Eighteen-room boutique motel at the base of East Rock Mountain, minutes from downtown Great Barrington.
Eastwind Windham
Scandi-mid-century lodge plus Lushna glamping cabins, with a wood-barrel sauna.
Graham & Co.
Reimagined Catskills motor lodge with a wood-fired sauna, lawn games, and a Pendleton-blanket aesthetic — 20 rooms in Phoenicia.
Greenporter Hotel
An airy reworked motor inn in central Greenport — cheap, charming, walkable to the wineries.
Hero Beach Club
An oceanfront 1950s motor court redone in beach-club stripes — right on the sand at the edge of town.
Hotel Dylan
A Woodstock native's Novogratz-designed revival of a '70s bi-level motel. Turntables in every room.
Journey East Hampton
A minimalist motor-lodge revival between East Hampton and Amagansett, playing the Piaule role for the South Fork.
Laurel Lake Placid
A roadside Adirondack motel reworked with a lighter, woodsier hand — the value base for a Lake Placid weekend.
Rivertown Lodge
A 1920s Hudson cinema reborn as the town's most quietly confident hotel, via Workstead.
Scribner's Catskill Lodge
The original Catskills Scandi motor-lodge revival. On a hillside in Hunter.
Seesaw’s Lodge
A 1940s ski lodge above Peru, reopened as a Scandi-minimal retreat. Bromley across the road.
Silver Sands
A rejuvenated beachfront motel with 1,400 feet of private sand. Condé Nast Readers' Choice 2024.
Sound View Greenport
A 1950s roadside motel on the Long Island Sound, redone with a Halfcall-meets-Scandi sensibility.
Starlite Motel
Wes Anderson energy, Shaker bones, pink and turquoise doors.
The Asbury Hotel
A 1962 Salvation Army building reimagined in 2016 — rooftop bar, live music, bowling alley downstairs.
The Graham & Co.
The Catskills design-motel that started the whole thing.
The Nevada Hotel
A 1950s Long Sands motel bought by a young couple and redone room by room — striped awnings, a heated pool, the beach across the road.
Tourists
A 1960s motel reimagined by Wilco's bassist and a Brooklyn design crew. Sea Ranch on the Hoosic River.
Zey Hotel
Zach Erdem's art-forward 10-room boutique — the opposite of generic Southampton chintz.
Mid-Atlantic & South
1 hotel
Mountain West & Southwest
10 hotelsAmigo Motor Lodge
A 1950s Route 50 motor court redone with Pendleton blankets and a few Airstreams — the base camp for the Arkansas River and the Collegiate Peaks.
Anvil Hotel
A 1950s motor hotel reimagined in 2017 — Filson-collab aesthetic, Glorietta Trattoria, rooftop patio.
El Rey Court
A 1936 motor court on old Route 66, reimagined 2018 — La Reina bar, saltwater pool, mezcal-scene.
Fredericksburg Inn & Suites
Family-owned — 75 rooms, indoor + outdoor pools, on Main Street's east end.
Hotel Willa
A 1970s motel on the south side of Taos stripped back to warm adobe minimalism — twenty-four rooms, a courtyard, a good little bar.
Mountain Modern Motel
A reworked in-town motor lodge two blocks from Jackson's square — the value bunk for a Tetons trip, gear room and a real fire pit.
Sky Ranch Lodge
The only lodge on Airport Mesa — six acres of gardens and the red-rock overlook everyone else has to drive up to for sunset.
The Lark Bozeman
A 1950s motor court reimagined — 38 design-forward rooms on Main Street, taco truck out front.
The Rabbit Ears Motel
Steamboat's neon-pink 1952 motor lodge — 45 rooms, family-owned, the original Steamboat motel.
Thunderbird Hotel
A 1959 motor court reimagined by Liz Lambert — 24 rooms, courtyard pool, Marfa's original design hotel.
Pacific & West Coast
15 hotels
Avalon Hotel & Bungalows
A 1958 Movie Colony hotel — 70 rooms, three pools, Kelly Wearstler-designed bungalows.
Carmel River Inn
Family-owned ranch-style cabins on the Carmel River — 43 rooms, the value play in Carmel.
Coachman Hotel
A 1972 motor lodge reimagined — 41 design-forward rooms, sauna, walking distance to Heavenly.
Earthbox Inn & Spa
A 1960s motor lodge reimagined — 18 rooms, indoor pool, family-owned.
El Bonita Motel
A 1930s Art Deco motor lodge on the highway — 41 rooms, the only motel left in St. Helena.
Glen Oaks Big Sur
A 1950s motor court reimagined in 2008 — 19 rooms with private fire pits, redwood-grove cabins.
Holiday House Palm Springs
A 1951 Herbert Burns mid-century motel restored 2016 — 28 adults-only rooms, palms and a pool.
L'Horizon Resort & Spa
A 1952 William F. Cody motor court restored to mid-century purity — 25 adults-only bungalows.
Mojave Sands
A five-room former 1950s motel reimagined as a design-forward retreat — courtyard pool, cacti.
Ojai Rancho Inn
A turquoise-and-adobe 1940s motor lodge — 19 rooms, outdoor fireplace, cruiser bikes free to borrow.
Skyview Los Alamos
A 1959 motor lodge reimagined 2018 — 33 design-forward rooms above the Santa Ynez Valley.
The Landsby
Solvang's design-forward Scandi boutique — 41 rooms, Mad & Vin restaurant, contemporary Danish-modern.
The Parker Palm Springs
Jonathan Adler's design tour-de-force — 144 rooms on 13 acres, Mister Parker's restaurant.
The Sands Hotel & Spa
A 1940s motor court reimagined as a Moroccan oasis — 46 rooms, mint-tea-on-arrival, hookah lounge.
Wall Street Suites
A 1960s motor court reimagined — 33 suites, hot tub, dog-friendly, walking distance to Drake Park.
