4 Best Hotels in Cle Elum, Washington Wine Country

This sleek, smartly designed boutique inn offers a mix of suites and two-bedroom town homes with a wealth of creature comforts, including private entrances, fully equipped kitchens, pretty patios, and separate sitting areas. Distressed-wood furnishings help to impart Roslyn's funky vibe, but these rather posh accommodations feel quite contemporary, which can be a plus or a minus depending on your taste. The staff will happily book tours and arrange snowshoe, kayak, bike, and other recreational rentals.

Set on a ridge overlooking the Cle Elum River, with spectacular views of the pine-covered Cascade Mountains, this upscale 6,000-acre resort offers elegant rooms in a stone-and-wood lodge, most with gas fireplaces. There's a slew of amenities, including the superb Glade Spring Spa, set amid lush gardens and offering a full menu of treatments, massages, and facials. You'll also find indoor and outdoor pools, hot tubs, saunas, a spacious exercise room, an amphitheater that doubles as an outdoor skating rink in the winter, two of the region's premier golf courses, and 40 miles of hiking and biking trails. Portals restaurant serves inventive Pacific Northwest fare, and there are several other dining options on the property.

Comprising four handsomely restored suites in a former boardinghouse for rail workers and four offbeat vintage caboose all filled with engaging railroad memorabilia, this distinctive inn is especially fun for fans of vintage trains, but the individually decorated accommodations are quite comfy, too. Adjacent Iron Horse Park, which is bisected by a span of the 250-mile Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, is a wonderful spot for hiking.