Arizona

Historic Hotels & Inns in Arizona

From the Grand Canyon’s South Rim and Route 66 to the copper towns of Jerome and Bisbee, Prescott’s Whiskey Row and the 1929 desert resorts: every historic hotel and inn in Arizona we could verify.

35 historic places to stay in 14 towns · verified October 2026 · by Historic Inns editors

The short answer

Tucson and Bisbee have the most, six each: in Tucson, Isabella Greenway’s 1930 Arizona Inn and the 1919 Hotel Congress; in Bisbee, the Copper Queen, built by Phelps Dodge between 1898 and 1902. At the Grand Canyon, book El Tovar, the Santa Fe Railway’s 1905 hotel on the South Rim, or Mary Colter’s 1935 Bright Angel Lodge. In Phoenix, the Arizona Biltmore opened in 1929, and in Winslow, Colter’s 1930 La Posada stands beside the Santa Fe depot. Prescott has four within two blocks of Courthouse Plaza, including the 1927 Hassayampa Inn, and Jerome has four in its National Historic Landmark district, including the Jerome Grand Hotel, a 1926 copper-company hospital.

Our top picks

Best overall

Arizona Inn

Built 1930 · Tucson

Isabella Greenway's 1930 inn, founded partly to create demand for her workshop of disabled WWI veterans; 90 casita-style rooms, still locally run.

Splurge

Arizona Biltmore

Built 1929 · Phoenix

Albert Chase McArthur's Wright-influenced resort, opened in 1929; most rooms are in 1975–2003 wings, so book one of the 15 original cottages.

Best value

Hotel Vendome

Built 1917 · Prescott

Built in 1917 with 31 rooms and 16 shared baths, two blocks from Courthouse Plaza; now 20 rooms with private baths, some…

Most haunted

Copper Queen Hotel

Built 1902 · Bisbee

Built by Phelps Dodge by 1902 to lodge investors visiting its mine; the hotel and Wikipedia call it Arizona's longest continuously operated…

Best lodge

El Tovar Hotel

Built 1905 · Grand Canyon Village

The Santa Fe Railway's 1905 hotel on the South Rim, opened by Fred Harvey before the canyon was a national park; 78…

Where they are

Where to go

Every historic inn in Arizona

InnTownBuiltRoomsTypePriceHaunted
The Armory Park InnTucson18757B&B–Rates
The Blenman InnTucson1878–B&B–YesRates
Ghost City InnJeromec. 1890–B&B–Rates
The Historic Grand Canyon HotelWilliams1891–Boutique hotel–YesRates
The Red Garter InnWilliams18974B&B–Rates
The Weatherford HotelFlagstaff189917Boutique hotel–Rates
Connor HotelJerome1899–Boutique hotel–Rates
The ClinkscaleJerome18997Boutique hotel–Rates
White Stallion RanchTucsonc. 190043Resort–Rates
Hotel St. MichaelPrescott1901–Boutique hotel–Rates
Copper Queen HotelBisbee1902–Grand hotel–YesRates
Letson Loft HotelBisbee19029Boutique hotel–Rates
The Grand Highland HotelPrescott1903–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Bisbee Brownstone SuitesBisbee19046Inn–Rates
Canyon Rose SuitesBisbee1905–Inn–Rates
Hotel La More at The Bisbee InnBisbee190520Inn–YesRates
El Tovar HotelGrand Canyon Village190578Lodge–Rates
Bisbee Grand HotelBisbee1910–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Kay El Bar Guest RanchWickenburg1914–Resort–Rates
Hotel VendomePrescott191720Boutique hotel–YesRates
Hotel CongressTucson1919–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Jerome Grand HotelJerome1926–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Hotel Monte VistaFlagstaff1927–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Hassayampa InnPrescott1927–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Arizona BiltmorePhoenix1929–Resort–Rates
Royal Palms Resort and SpaPhoenix1929119Resort–Rates
The WigwamLitchfield Park1929331Resort–Rates
Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch ResortTucson1929–Resort–Rates
Motel Du Beau Travelers InnFlagstaff1929–Inn–Rates
The Gadsden HotelDouglas1929–Grand hotel–YesRates
Arizona InnTucson193090Inn–Rates
La Posada Hotel & GardensWinslow1930–Grand hotel–Rates
The Hermosa InnParadise Valley1935–Inn–YesRates
Bright Angel Lodge & CabinsGrand Canyon Village193590Lodge–Rates
Hotel Valley HoScottsdale1956–Boutique hotel–Rates

Price is a typical nightly rate: $ under $200, $$ $200–349, $$$ $350–549, $$$$ $550+. Rates vary by season; check the inn for exact prices.

Elsewhere in Arizona

c. 1890Ghost City Inn

Built c. 1890 · Victorian · Jerome · B&B

Ghost City Inn

Why stay A Main Street boarding house for middle mine management, known for decades as the Garcia House; named for Jerome's nickname, not a ghost.

Good to know Parking: street

Built 1891 · Two-story brick commercial · Williams · Boutique hotel

The Historic Grand Canyon Hotel

Why stay Cormick E. Boyce's two-story brick hotel on Route 66, built in 1891 and opened as the Boyce Hotel in 1892; it calls itself Arizona's oldest hotel.

The ghost story The hotel's ghost-tour page says guests and staff report a Victorian girl who loves Room 13, a giggling child in the halls, and an old doctor still making his rounds with a medical bag.

1899The Clinkscale

Built 1899 · Victorian · Jerome · Boutique hotel

The Clinkscale

Why stay An 1899 Main Street building, formerly the Mile High Inn, with six themed guest rooms and a penthouse above a bar and grill.

Good to know Parking: street

1914Kay El Bar Guest Ranch

Built 1914 · Adobe ranch · Wickenburg · Resort

Kay El Bar Guest Ranch

Why stay Romaine Lowdermilk's adobe guest ranch, opened in 1926 and reopened in 2018 after years closed; the 1914 Homestead House is now a guest casita.

Good to know No pets

Built 1917 · Prescott · Boutique hotel

Hotel Vendome

Why stay Built in 1917 with 31 rooms and 16 shared baths, two blocks from Courthouse Plaza; now 20 rooms with private baths, some with claw-foot tubs.

The ghost story Local tale holds that the hotel is haunted by Abby Byr, a tuberculosis patient said to have died in her room in 1921 with her cat, Noble, after her husband left on an errand and never returned.

Built 1926 · Mission Revival (poured concrete) · Jerome · Boutique hotel

Jerome Grand Hotel

Why stay The United Verde Copper Company's 1926 hospital high on Cleopatra Hill, empty for 44 years after it closed in 1950; a hotel since 1996.

The ghost story The hotel's own history page says some strange occurrences have been documented over the years in the former hospital, that TV shows have explored its 'spirit' nature, and that visiting psychics picked up on its past.

Built 1927 · Flagstaff · Boutique hotel

Hotel Monte Vista

Why stay Flagstaff residents raised about $200,000 in a month, with help from Zane Grey, to build it; opened New Year's Day 1927, a block off Route 66.

The ghost story The hotel says it has always been known for rumors of hauntings and that spirits are said to haunt some of its rooms and halls.

Built 1927 · Mission / Spanish Revival with Italian Renaissance Revival elements · Prescott · Boutique hotel

Hassayampa Inn

Why stay Trost & Trost's 1927 red-brick hotel on Gurley Street, paid for partly by Prescott residents buying $1 shares; its Peacock Dining Room still serves.

The ghost story The hotel recounts the legend of Faith Summers, a young bride said to have taken her life in 1927 after her husband vanished; guests and staff report a young woman crying at the end of a bed or in a pink gown in the hallways, and cold spots in her honeymoon suite.

1935The Hermosa Inn

Built 1935 · Spanish Colonial / Mexican hacienda adobe · Paradise Valley · Inn

The Hermosa Inn

Why stay Cowboy artist Lon Megargee's adobe studio-home, begun in 1935 and now Lon's restaurant; guests stay in casitas, some historic, some added later.

The ghost story Guests and staff report seeing the ghost of founder Lon Megargee, a lanky cowboy figure, and blame him for toilets flushing on their own and glasses breaking late at night.

Good to know Parking: on-site paid · Pets welcome

Ways in

Themes in Arizona

The Grand Canyon, the Santa Fe Railway and Mary Colter

The Santa Fe Railway built El Tovar steps from its Grand Canyon depot, and the Fred Harvey Company opened it in January 1905, before the canyon was a national park; it has been a National Historic Landmark since 1987. The railway’s Bright Angel Lodge and cabins, designed by Mary Colter, followed in 1935 at the head of the Bright Angel Trail, keeping the 1890s Buckey O’Neill Cabin, which is individually listed on the National Register. In Winslow, Colter designed La Posada for Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe Railway beside the depot; it opened in 1930, closed after 27 years and was restored from 1997.

Jerome and Bisbee, the copper towns

Jerome’s four inns sit inside the Jerome Historic District, a National Historic Landmark district. The Jerome Grand Hotel, high on Cleopatra Hill, fills the United Verde Copper Company’s 1926 hospital, empty for 44 years before it opened as a hotel in 1996, and the Connor Hotel, the Ghost City Inn and The Clinkscale line Main Street. Bisbee’s six are all inside the Bisbee Historic District, led by the Copper Queen, which Phelps Dodge built for visiting mine investors. Both towns tell ghost stories: the Copper Queen calls itself Arizona’s most haunted hotel, and the Jerome Grand Hotel says strange occurrences have been documented in the old hospital.

The desert resorts of 1929 and after

Three Phoenix-area resorts date from 1929: the Arizona Biltmore, Albert Chase McArthur’s Wright-influenced resort; Goodyear’s Wigwam in Litchfield Park, opened to the public on Thanksgiving Day; and Royal Palms, the Cookes’ winter estate, which became an inn in 1948. Cowboy artist Lon Megargee began his adobe, now The Hermosa Inn, in 1935. In Tucson, Isabella Greenway opened the Arizona Inn in 1930, and Hacienda Del Sol, a 1929 girls’ ranch school rebuilt after a 1938 fire, became a guest ranch in the 1940s. Several of the Phoenix resorts have added rooms over the decades, so ask for an original cottage or casita.

Prescott’s Whiskey Row and Route 66

Fire leveled most of Prescott’s Whiskey Row in July 1900, and the Hotel St. Michael (1901) and the Grand Saloon & Hotel, now The Grand Highland Hotel (1903), went up in brick in its place. Nearby are the 1917 Hotel Vendome and the Hassayampa Inn, which Prescott residents helped pay for with $1 shares in 1927. On Route 66 in Williams, the Historic Grand Canyon Hotel opened as the Boyce Hotel in 1892 and the Red Garter Inn fills an 1897 Saloon Row building. In Flagstaff, The Weatherford opened on New Year’s Day 1900, Hotel Monte Vista on New Year’s Day 1927, and Motel Du Beau opened as a ‘motor hotel’ in 1929.

Road trip

Phoenix to the border, inn to inn

Phoenix

Start at the Arizona Biltmore, McArthur’s 1929 resort, in one of its 15 original cottages, or at Royal Palms, the Cookes’ 1929 estate on Camelback Road. Tucson is 110 miles away on I-10.

Tucson

Stay downtown at Hotel Congress or in the gardens of the 1930 Arizona Inn, or trade the city for White Stallion Ranch next to Saguaro National Park. Pick from our Tucson guide.

Bisbee

Take I-10 to Benson and Historic Highway 80 through Tombstone, about 90 miles, to Bisbee at 5,538 feet. Give it two nights on Main Street or Brewery Gulch from our Bisbee guide.

Douglas

End at The Gadsden Hotel on the border, opened in 1907 and rebuilt by Henry Trost in 1929 after a fire, with a white Italian marble staircase and a 42-foot stained-glass mural.

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Context

History and architecture

Arizona’s oldest lodgings follow the railroads and the copper mines. Two of Tucson’s pre-railroad adobes, from 1875 and 1878, are now B&Bs. In the 1890s brick hotels went up in Williams, where the Boyce Hotel opened in 1892, and in Jerome, where David Connor rebuilt his hotel after two fires in 1899; Flagstaff’s Weatherford followed on New Year’s Day 1900. Phelps Dodge built the Copper Queen in Bisbee by 1902 to lodge visiting investors, and the Santa Fe Railway and the Fred Harvey Company opened El Tovar at the Grand Canyon in 1905, before Arizona became the 48th state in 1912. In the 1920s, Prescott and Flagstaff residents helped pay for the Hassayampa and the Monte Vista, and the United Verde Copper Company’s 1926 hospital in Jerome, now the Jerome Grand Hotel, went up on the hill. Guest ranches and desert resorts followed: Kay El Bar near Wickenburg opened to guests in 1926, the Arizona Biltmore and the Wigwam in 1929 and the Arizona Inn in 1930. Mary Colter designed the last two railway hotels we list, La Posada (1930) for Fred Harvey and the Santa Fe Railway, and Bright Angel Lodge (1935) at the Grand Canyon.

Questions travelers ask

What is the oldest hotel in Arizona?

Two hotels claim it. The Copper Queen in Bisbee, built between 1898 and 1902, is described by the hotel and Wikipedia as Arizona’s longest continuously operated hotel, and the Historic Grand Canyon Hotel in Williams, which opened as the Boyce Hotel in January 1892, calls itself Arizona’s oldest hotel. The oldest buildings among the inns we list are two Tucson adobes, The Armory Park Inn (1875) and The Blenman Inn (1878), both houses before they became B&Bs.

What is the most haunted hotel in Arizona?

There is no official ranking. The Copper Queen in Bisbee calls itself Arizona’s most haunted hotel, with the spirits of Julia Lowell and a child named Billy said to roam its halls. The Jerome Grand Hotel, a former copper-company hospital, says strange occurrences have been documented there; Prescott’s Hassayampa Inn recounts the legend of Faith Summers, a young bride, and guests and staff report a young woman in a pink gown in its hallways; and Hotel Congress in Tucson publishes its own Haunted Rooms page. These are stories guests and staff tell, not documented fact.

Can you stay in a historic hotel at the Grand Canyon?

Yes, two on the South Rim. El Tovar (1905), a National Historic Landmark, has 78 rooms, all reached by stairs. Bright Angel Lodge & Cabins, Mary Colter’s 1935 lodge, has 90 units, from shared-bath lodge rooms to rim cabins, including the 1890s Buckey O’Neill Cabin; there is no air conditioning. Neither hotel has assigned parking.

What are the historic hotels in Phoenix and Scottsdale?

Five we list: the Arizona Biltmore (1929) and Royal Palms, an estate completed in 1929 and an inn since 1948, in Phoenix; The Hermosa Inn (1935) in Paradise Valley; Hotel Valley Ho (1956), a mid-century motor resort on the Scottsdale Historic Register; and The Wigwam (1929) in Litchfield Park. All five have added rooms since they opened, so ask for an original cottage, casita or wing when you book.

Are there historic hotels on Route 66 in Arizona?

Yes. In Williams, the Historic Grand Canyon Hotel opened as the Boyce Hotel in 1892, and the Red Garter Inn has four rooms in August Tetzlaff’s 1897 building, once a saloon and brothel. In Flagstaff, Hotel Monte Vista (1927) is a block off Route 66, and Motel Du Beau (1929) is a block south of it; The Weatherford (1900) is downtown. In Winslow, Mary Colter’s La Posada (1930) stands on Route 66 beside the Santa Fe depot.

How we chose these inns

Every place on this page is at least 50 years old, holds a credential we can check (National Register listing, a listed historic district, landmark status, or Historic Hotels of America membership), and takes bookings today. We verify each one against primary sources before it goes on the list, and last checked this list in October 2026. Read our criteria.

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