Welcome to the Mountain Motel in Salida Colorado!

Pets Allowed!

Bring your furry friends, they are always welcome here.

WELCOME to the Mountain Motel in Salida, Colorado! Experience our warm and friendly Mountain Western Retro atmosphere. Our unique “Boutique” motel provides guests with a sense of tranquility while allowing them to enjoy the many exceptional amenities available in each of our motel rooms.

Featured Rooms at the Mountain Motel

Room Ten

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Cottage Four

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Studio Eleven

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The Mountain Motel welcomed its first guests in 1947. In 1996, six more rooms were built to accommodate the tremendous influx of visitors to the motel. The Mountain Motel has been a family endeavor, being locally owned and operated since 1947 – over 55 years!

In December 2011, the new owner of The Mountain Motel felt that it was time to showcase the charm and history of the motel by performing a slight upgrade to the rooms as well as the Mountain Motel’s brand. After transforming the office area into a lounge and reading room, the energetic owner set to work to begin outfitting the remaining nine rooms with an exhaustive inventory of Mountain Western Retro furniture, fixtures and room décor. The vision to make the Mountain Motel, Salida’s FIRST “boutique motel” and reinventing an American icon – the roadside motel!

Foremost in the minds of the staff at the Mountain Motel is to provide guests with a comfortable, cozy, distinctive and memorable stay. One-size DOES NOT fit all! Each room has been re-imagined in a unique fashion, which brings the owner’s distinct style to a historic Salida motel.

Room décor is an eclectic collection of “Mountain Western Retro” – reminiscent of properties dating back to the 1950’s, and early 1960’s.

We consider the Mountain Motel a forever evolving work of “motel art,” where updates and décor are an on-going effort. We especially pride ourselves on being the only Salida, CO motel to bring the “boutique motel” experience to guests visiting the Arkansas River Valley.

A locally owned motel, the Mountain Motel is noticeably different in look and feel from other Salida hotel and motel experiences. We love it when our guests are pleasantly “surprised” to find that the motel offers much more than a room to sleep. Guests of the Salida, CO area have many options for lodging, but very few will venture out to the other options once they experience the uniqueness of the Mountain Motel.

The staff at the Mountain Motel invite you to share our “Mountain Western Retro” experience! Whether it be sharing stories in the lounge on a cold day with other guests, or sipping the special “Mountain Motel” iced-tea on a hot day. Without question, your stay at the Mountain Motel in Salida, Colorado will be a memory to share forever and keep you coming back, year after year.

“Traveling prospector's mountain treasure”

Prospecting the cyber sites for a place for a place to get in out of the cold and bed down, I happened upon the site of Mountain Motel in Salida. It caught my interest--nothing big and fancy like corporate hotels--but warm, cozy, and comfortable and maybe friendly. Calling on the land line to the registration desk, I talked to the proprietor Irene about the location and amenities. I decided to stake a claim for five nights. Costs of the claim was real reasonable--did not need a swimming pool or a hot tub--a hot shower would work just great. Talking to Irene was like striking up a conversation with an ol'e friend. She helped me with info and things to make to trip work which was skiing our buns off with my son at Monarch Ski Resort.
We stayed in the newer efficient room with new queen beds. Quiet, clean, remodeled with frig, micro, and flat TV. There are cabin rooms that gives a feeling of real mountain cabin. These cabins are authentic older nothing fake cabins. They are very clean, warm and cozy. I plan on staying in a cabin the next ski or motorcycle excursion to Salida. I have stayed in corporate hotels which do the job providing a place to stay, however, hotels miss the ability to extend the individual attention that a individual owner can. Individual attention is what Irene is about. This is her home in Salida. She wants the guests to feel at home at Mountain Motel while prospecting the area mountains.

Stayed January 2013, traveled with family

Don S.    January 13, 2013