7 Best Hotels in Point Reyes National Seashore, The Bay Area

This cheerful and refined getaway offers as many reasons to stay on-property—with its views of Mt. Wittenberg and garden setting—as to explore the 71,000 acres of national seashore just steps away. Twenty-two rooms and two cottages offer distinctive design details, from heated floors to suites featuring majestic four-poster beds. Artisanal grab-and-go goodies from the on-site Due West Market make it easy to pack a picnic for the gorgeous grounds or a hike along its creek and groves. Or enjoy cocktails and locally sourced dishes at Due West's restaurant wing, which is one of the best dinner stops in the region.

Amid a 15-acre valley on the north end of Inverness, this secluded getaway offers spacious one- and two-bedroom cabins with fireplaces and patios perfect for sunset barbecues and leisurely breakfasts. The cabins are tidy and well lighted, with large windows and impressive skylights. The inn is ideal for families who want extra space and a kitchen (or kitchenette) for cooking. Extras include a pool, a hot tub, lawn games, and tennis courts.

Chef-owner Margaret Gradé takes rustic fantasy to extravagant heights in her historic cabins and suites (circa 1910), where mica-shaded lamps cast an amber glow, and bearskin rugs warm wide-planked floors. Each accommodation is unique, though all feature feather beds, deep leather armchairs, and huge Victorian soaking tubs. Breakfast is brought to your room each morning, and a locally sourced in-room dinner from the famed Sir and Star restaurant is available on Friday and Sunday evenings. Offices are based in Airstream trailers and staff are relatively hands-off, making this more of a private hideaway than a woodsy resort.

This roadside row of rooms has everything a small-town motel should offer: friendly management, spotless seaside accommodations, and extras that add real value. Some rooms have a small kitchen with cooking utensils, while the lodge—a window-lined common room with skylighted cathedral ceiling—has a fireplace, a big-screen TV, a billiards table, and a kitchenette. French doors open to a deck overlooking Tomales Bay.

Built in 1876, this rustic inn and restaurant—a sister property to Manka's Inverness Lodge—retains all its 19th-century architectural charm with the added flair of Margaret Gradé's eccentric details. Each room is uniquely decorated with hand-picked bed frames, vintage wardrobes, and other original furnishings, some straight from a Parisian flea market. The main attraction of The Olema is the top-notch cooking served at the on-site restaurant Sir and Star. Using ingredients sourced within a 15-mile radius (many from the farm across the street), the kitchen kicks out creative local dishes Wednesday–Sunday evenings.

This is the kind of down-to-earth B&B where you sit around after breakfast and share tips for hiking Point Reyes or linger around the living room and its stone fireplace and library. The Craftsman-style home is decorated in an unfussy modern country manner; some rooms have dormer ceilings with skylights, and all have fluffy bedding. The owners take pride in their breakfast spread, and afternoon refreshments are nice extras.