High Desert Lodge

If you are nostalgic about road trips and or Route 66 type motels, High Desert Lodge is a great stop. Clean motel, reasonable prices and a friendly staff, we stumbled on HDL by chance on a family road trip. They were great getting us and five kids set up for a restful night. Fun breakfast place down the street called the 20 Mule Cafe. Fun experience to make some family memories. As others mentioned, there is a train that runs behind the motel. The motel provides complementary ear plugs and the rumble of the train adds to the experience. It may not look like much from the road, but its clean, safe and fun. Safety: We felt very safe.
Mar 24th, 2024

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Feb 27th, 2023

We had a bad oil leak with our diesel so we urgently searched for a place that night that wasn't too expensive but most importantly had parking space for our truck since it was hauling a trailer. Service was excellent, the owner let us park our (leaking) truck on the gravel part of the parking lot then in the morning my father went out to pick up a part and oil to replace the sensor and the pilot lost the leakage. There was a pet friendly room but unfortunately our dog was too big so we couldn't rent that room so one of us slept inside the truck to watch the animals and our belongings in the truck bed. Would highly recommend over "Budget" Inn which wanted $175 over the $75 we paid for our room. The "Budget" Inn likely would have had the same room sizes and quality if you compared their layouts. Rooms: The rooms' have 1 small bed and 1 larger bed. The bathrooms have 1 small shower, 1 toilet and 1 sink, there is a small room in there presumably for changing. Noteworthy details: There are train tracks behind the hotel itself which which can be loud but for the price of $75 it's perfectly fine as it's not that loud. Depends on your preference.
Aug 21st, 2023