Moab Hotels

The second closest hotel to Arches National Park is the 79 room Holiday Inn Express Moab, at 1515 N Highway 191, half a mile south of the Colorado River and the park boundary. The hotel was built in 2003, in the countryside 2 miles north of Moab town center; most of the 79 spacious rooms have extensive, uninterrupted views towards the surrounding red sandstone cliffs and the trees bordering the river. The two main amenities are an indoor pool and free, good quality continental breakfast. For extra space, the hotel has several suites, each containing a microwave, refrigerator and sofa bed.

Right at the center of Moab, at the junction of Center St and Main St, sits the 77 room Best Western Canyonlands Inn, a 3 storey building that enjoys fine views over the deep red Navajo sandstone cliffs that rise a short distance away to the northeast. The turn off to the Island-in-the-Sky district of Canyonlands National Park is 10 miles north, while the entrance to Arches National park is 5 miles away. The hotel has a good range of facilities - free full breakfast, hot tub, exercise room, children's playground, guest laundry, rooms with refrigerators - plus a year-round outdoor heated pool that is covered by a protective dome during the winter months. As well as regular rooms, several kinds of suite are available. The Canyonlands Inn is highly rated by Best Western, receiving the company 'Best of the Best' award.

The Best Western Greenwell Inn lies one block south of the junction of Center and Main in the middle of Moab - almost opposite the other Best Western, at 105 S Main St. The accommodation block is a long, narrow, old-style building arranged around 2 sides of the parking area, which also contains a heated outdoor pool and is bordered on the south side by a wooded stream (Mill Creek) along which runs a pleasant footpath. Many shops, restaurants, bars, art galleries and museums in downtown Moab are just a short walk away. For dining, the hotel's own Mandarin Szechwan Restaurant is open for breakfast (not free), lunch and dinner.

At 1051 S Main St (US 191), the pastel-colored Sleep Inn has a southerly location in Moab, right beside the highway in a rural/residential neighborhood. Moab Golf Club is 4 miles south; the entrance to Arches National Park is 6.5 miles north. There are plenty of restaurants along the main road, beginning half a mile towards the town center. Contained within are 2 storey building are 61 rooms, generally brighter, larger and newer than the average roadside motel. The Sleep Inn offers free continental breakfast, an indoor hot tub and quite a large outdoor pool (seasonal).

Recently acquired by Choice Hotels, the Landmark Inn of Moab, UT, provides 37 comfortable, spacious rooms in a typical motel-style, exterior-corridor building near the town center - at 168 N Main, adjacent to several restaurants and within a mile of all the shops. The most visible feature of the inn is an outdoor pool complete with waterslide & hot tub, while interior facilities include a guest laundry and the free breakfast area. All the rooms contain a microwave & refrigerator, and are double-glazed for a quieter stay.

Moab's Comfort Suites hotel is situated towards the south end of town, at the corner of S Main St (800 S Highway 191) and Dogwood Ave, less then a mile from the downtown area and within walking distance of many restaurants & stores. Untouched desert begins just to the southwest, with the convoluted ridges and fins of the Behind-the-Rocks country just a short walk away. The hotel has a heated indoor pool, hot tub, exercise room, and a dining area where the usual free continental breakfast is provided. There are 75 comfortable rooms - larger then average though not true suites - all of which contain a refrigerator and some have a microwave.