Historic Hotels & Inns in Bisbee

The neighborhoods

Where to stay, by area

Main Street & Old Bisbee

Old Bisbee is the historic core of the Bisbee Historic District, on the National Register since 1980. Bisbee began as a mining camp in 1880, the founding year this page uses, and incorporated in 1902. The Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum and the Copper Queen Mine Tour are nearby, but the streets climb: Howell Avenue runs one way uphill past the Copper Queen to the lot behind Canyon Rose, and Canyon Rose warns that GPS isn’t always reliable in town.

Four verified stays are on or just off Main Street. The Copper Queen Hotel (11 Howell Ave.) was built by the Phelps Dodge company to lodge mine investors and executives. The Letson Loft Hotel (26 Main St.) has nine rooms on the second floor of the Letson Block, on the site of the 1883 ‘Bisbee Massacre’. The Bisbee Grand Hotel (61 Main St.) is a hotel, saloon and live-music venue in the Elks building, which the 1980 district inventory dates to 1910. Canyon Rose Suites has kitchen suites on the top floor of the Allen Block, which the inn says the Allen family completed in 1905.

Brewery Gulch

Brewery Gulch (Brewery Avenue) runs through the heart of Old Bisbee’s historic downtown.

The Bisbee Brownstone Suites (20 Brewery Ave.) fills a three-story brick building that, the inn says, Lemuel Shattuck and Jacob Schmid finished in January 1904, with Shattuck’s saloon downstairs, and that the Daily Review hailed as Bisbee’s ‘first skyscraper’. It now has six apartment-style suites with full kitchens. Hotel La More at The Bisbee Inn (45 OK St.), a 1905 brick hotel building per the 1980 district inventory, overlooks the gulch with 20 rooms, a shared common area and dining room, and courtyard shows.

Before you book

Planning your stay

Getting around

Bisbee has no airline service: Tucson International (TUS) is the nearest airport with flights, since Sierra Vista’s airport has had none since 2007. Bisbee is about 90 miles southeast of Tucson on Historic Highway 80 (I-10 to Benson, then Route 80 through Tombstone), and TUS lists shuttle companies serving Bisbee, including Huachuca Shuttle and Arizona GO!, most of which need advance reservations. Once parked, Old Bisbee is a walking town, but a steep one: WPA-built public stairways, laid over old mule paths, link the hillside streets.

Parking

Old Bisbee parking is street spaces and small lots, so use the parking your inn names: the Bisbee Grand’s free lot directly across Main Street, plus free street parking along Main; the public parking at either end of Commerce Street behind the Letson Loft; the lot behind Canyon Rose, reached up one-way Howell Avenue past the Copper Queen; or the on-site ground-level parking that comes with the Brownstone’s Penthouse. Discover Bisbee also lists paid public parking with day and overnight rates at St. Patrick Parish, 100 Quality Hill Road, reached by turning at the Iron Man statue.

When to go

At 5,538 feet, Bisbee is the cool alternative to Tucson in summer: July averages 87°F by day and 63°F at night, against Tucson’s 100°F and 76°F, but January averages 56°F and 32°F, so winter nights are cold. Fall is the big event season: the Bisbee 1000 stair climb was October 17 in 2026 and is set for October 16, 2027, and the Bisbee Woman’s Club Home Tour and Art Auction is November 27 to 28, 2026. Bisbee Pride is in June, and the After Five Art Walk is the second Saturday evening of every month.

Accessibility

Old Bisbee is hard going for limited mobility: the town is built on hillsides linked by stairways, and the Bisbee 1000 course alone has nine staircases and about 1,175 feet of climb. The Letson Loft says it can’t offer accessible rooms because alterations would destroy the building’s historic significance, and it is on the second floor with no elevator. The Brownstone’s third-floor Penthouse has no interior stairs and ground-level parking just outside the back entrance. Ask the other inns before you book.

Before you book

Book event weekends early and read the fine print: the Bisbee Grand gives no refunds for any reason on holiday and Bisbee event weekends, always charges a $50 cancellation fee and takes a $100 refundable cleaning deposit; Canyon Rose sets two-night minimums with a two-week cancellation window for holidays and special events; and the Letson Loft allows cancellation of Bisbee 1000, Bisbee Pride and New Year’s Eve stays up to 7 days out. The Letson Loft takes children 12 and up and no pets, the Bisbee Grand and Canyon Rose take no pets, the Copper Queen includes a free continental breakfast on weekdays, and Hotel La More’s budget rooms share a bathroom.