America’s 13 Coziest Hotels to Visit This Winter

When it comes to winter travel, you have one of two options: Run from the cold and find some tropical beach where it’s sunny right now, or embrace the seasonal chill and opt for maximum coziness. For the latter, we’re thinking about wintry hideaways where firepits are abundant, the smell of wood smoke fills the air, and the interior design goes heavy on comfy wools and flannels. They’re places where exploring outside is as rewarding as sitting by a window with a good book and taking in the snow globe–like scene outside. As part of our Hotels We Love series, we’ve selected our 13 favorite winter retreats from around the country that are ideal for travelers ready to lean fully into the season.

The Allison Inn & Spa

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Set in the Willamette Valley, the Allison Inn & Spa sprawls over 35 acres of Oregon wine country, 45 minutes outside of Portland. When the Pacific Northwest air takes on its trademark winter chill, a perfect day at the inn might involve turning on your room’s fireplace, grabbing something from the complimentary welcome snack basket, wrapping up in the provided throw, and settling onto your bay window seat.

If you do feel like venturing out, head to the award-winning Jory restaurant for hearty seasonal fare paired with something from the 800-bottle-strong wine list. Or plan an afternoon at the 15,000-square-foot spa, where you can enjoy whirlpools, eucalyptus steam rooms, and treatments that nourish skin using wine and grape seed extracts from the resort’s on-site vineyards.

Blackberry Farm

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Situated over 4,200 acres in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Blackberry Farm is renowned for its pilgrimage-worthy approach to wine and dining. Its 68 accommodations include historic rooms, cottages, suites, and houses, and each category includes comforting design touches including fireplaces, oversize soaking tubs, and rocking chairs out on the porch. (If you’re inspired by all that coziness, Blackberry Farm Shop ships their line of linen throws, Frette bedding, and handwoven wool blankets made from sheep raised on the farm.)

The star of the show here is the hearty seasonal food at the two onsite restaurants: the Barn, which is located in a 19th-century bank barn and showcases Appalachian ingredients and a renowned wine and whiskey list, and the Dogwood, a fine-dining spot in the Main House offering multi-course menus and Chilhowee ridgeline views. Regardless of which you choose, dishes like grilled apples with foie gras, heirloom grits, and brown butter–poached trout with grilled sweet potatoes are designed to feel like a warm hug—even more so when the snow is falling outside.

Borealis Basecamp

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Borealis Basecamp feels off the grid while offering all the comforts of an upscale lodge. It’s in a boreal forest in Interior Alaska, north of Fairbanks (Alaska’s second largest city, population 30,000) and far from urban light pollution. When it opened in 2017, the retreat quickly became a coveted spot for northern lights chasers.

The collection of geodesic igloos was built in the same way as the accommodations of scientists in Arctic environments, but with extra creature comforts. Each has a ceiling made with repurposed 16-foot-wide helicopter windows offering views of chartreuse- and magenta-hued northern lights from bed. In winter 2022, Borealis Basecamp added a collection of modern cube-shaped cabins with floor-to-ceiling windows that make for easy sky scanning.

Before tucking in for in-bed aurora viewing, guests gather at the restaurant Latitude 65, which serves locally farmed and foraged ingredients. Seasonal dishes might include spicy sockeye salmon poke, Kodiak weathervane scallops, and elk medallions with Alaska tart cherries.

Farmhouse Inn

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Set on 10 tree-shaded acres in a quiet corner of Sonoma County, Farmhouse Inn has a storied past, having had previous lives as a horse farm, bathhouse, and the first gay resort in the Russian River Valley. Today, the luxury hotel is run by siblings Joe and Catherine Bartolomei, whose family goes back five generations in the wine-growing region. Farmhouse Inn comprises 25 rooms, suites, and cottages, each with a unique footprint and handsome white-washed furnishings. They feature fireplaces, patios, large bathtubs, and steam showers (with local artisanal soaps and scrubs). The farmhouse-chic aesthetic continues in the Wellness Barn spa, which offers body treatments using local remedies, as well as private yoga sessions and workshops.

Food and drink feature prominently in the hospitality experience here. There’s welcome wine on arrival, complimentary s’mores kits out by the firepit, and seasonal cooking at the on-site restaurant, which sources many herbs and vegetables from the hotel’s garden and eggs from its flock of 80 hens.

The Green O

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The adults-only Green O comprises 12 stylish stand-alone accommodations, or “hauses,” with four sleek, Scandinavian-inspired designs on the forested grounds of the Resort at Paws Up in northwest Montana. They include a “light haus,” with two fireplaces and skylights ideal for star gazing, and a “round haus,” with curved windows that showcase forest views. The “green haus” features an atrium that maximizes indoor-outdoor living.

For maximum cozy winter vibes, the best choices are the “tree haus” accommodations, which are elevated 23 feet into the canopy. These suites are three-story, glass-encased, Tetris-stacked structures with a cylindrical spiral staircase at the center. In addition to multiple viewing platforms and a fireplace, there’s also a hot tub at ground level. All come with floor-to-ceiling windows, Wild West–chic furniture in leather and wrought iron, and more than 1,000 square feet of indoor living space. There are also on-site hiking trails, which begin steps from your door, horseback rides along the Blackfoot River, and hot-air balloon rides over the majestic Swan Mountains.

Hotel Jerome, Auberge Resorts Collection

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Opened in 1889 during the silver boom, this brick landmark exudes a rustic-meets-refined elegance that has come to define this well-heeled Colorado ski town. The hotel has been a favorite over the decades for the likes of Gary Cooper, John Wayne, and especially Hunter S. Thompson, who used the J-Bar as his informal campaign office when he was running for sheriff. An Old West masculinity pervades the public spaces, with their moodily lit nooks, crackling fireplaces, and deep-set leather chairs. In October 2025, the Jerome unveiled newly reimagined guest rooms, featuring tactile mohair, tailored wool, and hair-on-hide accents.

The Inn at Little Washington

The Inn at Little Washington

The Inn at Little Washington is a destination resort with a fervent following that counts the days until their next stay. Opened in 1978 in a former garage, the hotel is tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in a small town called Washington—nicknamed “Little Washington” to distinguish it from the capital, about 70 miles away.

Patrick O’Connell, proprietor and chef, has earned Michelin stars and multiple honors from the James Beard Foundation, and he was among the first American hosts to be wooed and won by Relais & Châteaux. And yet, for all the expert technique and inventive menus, dinner at the Inn involves some theatrical magic and playfulness: a little box of truffled popcorn to start the meal, a course of crème fraîche ice cream paired with Imperial Ossetra caviar.

That magic extends to the 24 beautifully appointed guest rooms and suites, too, in the main building and also surrounding cottages and houses around town. Expect custom furniture and antiques, freestanding tubs, fresh flowers, terraces, fainting couches, tassels, fringe, and valances—the decor is definitely maximalist, unified by layer upon layer of almost-clashing patterns. And yet, it’s all balanced and tasteful, if a bit eccentric.

Inn of the Five Graces

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Occupying a collection of formerly neglected adobe structures in Santa Fe’s Barrio de Analco Historic District, Inn of the Five Graces takes its name from the Eastern philosophy that we’re graced with sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste as a way to experience the wonders of the world. And indeed, designers Ira and Sylvia Seret have searched far and wide for treasures to create an all-encompassing sensory experience: Uzbek embroidered headboards and Peruvian prayer blankets to touch, museum-quality Afghan and Tibetan artifacts to peruse, and especially kiva fireplaces to wrap you in the sweet scent of burning piñon pine. In many of the rooms and suites, the best seat in the house is the deep soaking tub, surrounded in some cases by intricately inlaid onyx, marble, lapis, or jade.

The Relais & Chateaux hotel’s owners recently bought the iconic Pink Adobe restaurant, which first opened 82 years ago and was beloved for its blend of Cajun and New Mexican cuisine. You can now access the restaurant through a passageway off the inn’s central courtyard. For the height of coziness, don’t miss the dessert known as Rosalea’s French apple pie: Studded with golden raisins and pecans, it’s been on the menu since 1944. And if you’d rather get in on the cooking yourself, you can sign up for visit to the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, where members of the Naranjo family will welcome you with hot drinks and teach you how to bake in a beehive-shaped, wood-burning horno oven.

Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel

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The otherworldly Jacumba Valley, just an hour or so east of San Diego, is an out-of-the-way desert destination that’s still, for now, a kind of a secret. But there’s one revivifying reason to visit: the Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel, which became a popular resort for those wanting to take the desert waters upon its opening a century ago. A railroad closure in the mid-20th century put the area (and the hotel) into decline, but after a stylish renovation under new ownership, the historic property had a second grand opening in early 2024. The 20 guest rooms are now done up in a Morocco-meets-Southwest aesthetic, with adobe walls, stained-glass lamps, glossy glazed tiles, Moorish carpets, and exposed wood. The resort also encompasses several casitas and guesthouses around the town of Jacumba Hot Springs, some with their own soaking tubs.

The centerpiece of Jacumba—and what makes it especially perfect for a cold-weather getaway—is the complex of natural baths. Three pools, including two limited to hotel guests, circulate with 100°F alkaline mineral water saturated with sodium, silica, lithium, manganese, chloride, and sulfur-y hydrogen sulfide. For when you’re between dips, there’s also a restaurant and bar serving desert-inflected food and cocktails, and even in winter, the property hosts regular pop-ups, concerts, and other events, sometimes at the ruins of the old bathhouse next door, part of the original 1920s resort. Just driving through? Affordable day passes mean it’s easy to spend an afternoon soaking off the (mild) SoCal chill.

Parker Palm Springs

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Opened in 1959 as California’s first Holiday Inn, the Parker Palm Springs is a midcentury landmark that has lived many lives in its first six and a half decades: Western movie star Gene Autry bought the property to house his baseball team, the California Angels, during spring training in the ‘60s; TV producer Merv Griffin took it over in the 1990s; and Jonathan Adler later spruced up the interiors, adding his whimsical hodgepodge style. You’ll now find eclectic art pieces (like a seven-foot-tall bronze banana sculpture) and homey touches, including needlepoint pillows and sheepskin throws.

At the on-site spa, the Palm Springs Yacht Club, guests relax in plush cotton terry robes in between treatments like hot stone massages and honey cocoon body wraps. And after the sun sets and the desert temperatures drop, many make their way into Mini Bar for a coveted spot around the mod fireplace, where the seating is divided between cushions and leather poufs, or head to the butterfly chairs around the firepit to make s’mores. With the crisp night air and the starry sky overhead, there may be no better way to experience winter in the California desert.

Sanctuary Camelback Mountain, a Gurney’s Resort & Spa

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Spread across 53 acres of manicured desert landscape on the north side of Scottsdale’s iconic mountain, this wellness resort remains a favorite any time of year. (There’s a reason Beyoncé and Jay-Z spent their honeymoon here.) In the summer, you might find yourself cooling off with paddleboard yoga in the infinity pool, but the resort comes alive during the Sonoran winter, when there’s a chill in the air but the sunshine’s still blazing.

The resort offers 110 casitas and suites and 8 private mountain villas, many with their own fireplaces, firepits, or outdoor bathtubs—an especially luxurious place to warm up when desert winter lows dip into the 30s. After dark, those in the know head to the patio of the Jade Bar, which is warmed by gas fireplaces. But perhaps the coziest spot on property is the Asian-inspired spa; it’s hidden behind a Zen meditation garden and reflecting ponds and best enjoyed when dressed in one of its plush robes.

Twin Farms Treehouses

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If you ever climbed trees as a child, you may recall the magic that comes from looking down at the world from above. That bird’s-eye view is just what Twin Farms had in mind when the beloved luxury retreat dreamed up its eight new Treehouse suites, the first new accommodations added to this 300-acre estate in 30 years.

Hovering between 14 and 20 feet above ground in the forest, these 800- square-foot hideaways on stilts are designed with the Japanese principles of wabi-sabi, or the celebration of imperfection in nature. The rustic materials, floating fireplaces, and floor-to-ceiling glass windows are meant to call nature inside for communing and calm. They’re a particularly lovely spot to warm up after a day outside snowshoeing, alpine skiing, fat-tire biking, ice skating, or sledding.

Wildflower Farms, Auberge Resorts Collection

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Spread out across 140 acres on a former tree farm below New York’s Shawangunk Mountain Range, Wildflower Farms is only a 90-minute drive north of Manhattan but feels worlds away. In addition to 65 freestanding cottages, Wildflower Farms is also home to Thistle, an Auberge Spa, as well as three miles of trails and a working farm that provides seasonal vegetables, eggs, and yes, wildflowers to Clay, the on-site fine-dining restaurant.

Here, wellness doesn’t mean a spa treatment or two and a yoga class; it’s a chance to truly immerse yourself in nature by going forest bathing or even collecting your own eggs from the chicken coop each morning. Each cottage and cabin comes with floor-to-ceiling windows to let the outdoors in so you can stay connected to the outdoors, even when you’re watching the sunrise from underneath a custom-made patchwork quilt or unwinding in the deep soaking tub after a hike. If you’re feeling a bit more extroverted, you can relax on the open-air Great Porch, where a nearly 10-foot-wide firepit is surrounded by velvet couches and tweed armchairs. It’s a communal space where you can share coffee and pastries by morning or cocktails and bar snacks by night.

While there are plenty of opportunities for adventure in the area, Wildflower Farms offers homier activities that are perfect for when the mercury drops, such as making wreaths with seasonal dried botanicals, baking sourdough focaccia with edible flowers, or warming up with a tasting of single-barrel whiskeys at the nearby Tuthilltown Spirits Distillery, a 10-minute stroll from the hotel. You’ll be sure to feel well-fed, well-rested, and more relaxed than when you arrived.

This article was originally published in December 2023 and most recently updated on January 11, 2026, with current information. Additional reporting by Hannah Walhout, Ann Shields, Bailey Berg, Kathryn Romeyn, Nora Zelevansky, and Lyndsey Matthews.