The Best Hotels in the Willamette Valley
The Vintages, Dayton’s gussied-up trailer park, can be a surprisingly romantic couples’ spot.
Many of the Willamette Valley’s best wineries are within an hour or two of Portland, making a day trip of tasting a relatively easy feat. But why pass up a nightcap on a veranda with a vineyard view? Or the chance to eat parfaits in bed as you ponder the wineries you’ll visit in the hours ahead? Ideally, you want to find a central home base between the places you plan to taste—somewhere like McMinnville or Newberg, both of which have plenty of noteworthy dinner and breakfast options. Below, a flight of worthy accommodations, with soaking pools, firepits, spectacular views, and comfy digs sure to stave off a hangover.
The Allison Inn’s jacuzzi is a solid post-sip treat.
The Allison Inn & Spa
Newberg, rooms from $535
More than 15 years in, the Allison remains the Willamette Valley’s go-to luxury resort. Gardens sprawl the grounds, with numerous nooks for intimate hangouts and a secluded firepit along the dreamily circuitous paths. Inside are a conservatory-style lap pool and hot tub, as well as a spa with eucalyptus steam rooms and cedar saunas to bounce between. The hotel’s kitchen staff plates A5 Wagyu beef tartare and scallop crudo with miso uni mousse for the restaurant, Jory, where chef Jack Strong also incorporates Indigenous culinary practices and ingredients into tasting menus. Draw yourself a bath (the salts are made with herbs from the garden) and cuddle up next to your in-room fireplace with a glass from the neighboring vineyard. A splurge, but worth it. —Brooke Jackson-Glidden
Pendleton robes, cozy fireplaces, and complimentary bikes await at Atticus Hotel.
Atticus Hotel
McMinnville, rooms from $351
This boutique hotel brings a cosmopolitan aesthetic to wine country, with Willamette Valley artists’ paintings and photography hung above the lobby’s navy wainscotting. Inside each of the 36 rooms, find Pendleton robes, cozy fireplaces, and remarkably comfortable king beds. (Also see the still-fancy bunk room, which sleeps six.) Hop on complimentary bicycles to visit some in-town wineries or the nature preserve at Tice Park, and bike back for meze and prawn tagine at adjoining Mediterranean restaurant, Cypress. There’s also an industrious concierge available to make dinner reservations, hire drivers for wine tasting tours, and even build full itineraries ahead of your stay. —BJG
The Compass
McMinnville, rooms from $215
Heard of practical luxury? With king beds and rain showers in each bathroom (and palatial tubs in some), rooms at this newish boutique inn are plenty comfortable, but not so much that you’ll skip wine tasting to hang out in your room—though there is an honor bar downstairs stocked with bottles from local woman winemakers. Think upscale Airbnb more than full-service concierge and valet. The main building has just four bedrooms, a small kitchen and living room, and self-check-in through a door code, while out back sits a studio ADU with a kitchenette. On weekends the sensational Alea Bakery provides complimentary breakfast treats for hotel guests, like chewy canelés and fluffy baked eggs. —Alex Frane
McMenamins’ Grand Lodge makes for a proper wine tasting layover.
McMenamins Grand Lodge
Forest Grove, rooms from $98
In 2000, the regional chain refashioned a defunct Masonic Lodge in Forest Grove with its Deadhead cookie cutter, carving out a groovy chateau that makes a down-to-earth wine tasting layover. To the north is No Clos Radio, a three-fer tasting room bunching natural wine favorites Maloof, Fossil & Fawn, and Monument. A few miles south, in Gaston, are Limited Addition, with locally grown global varietals, and pinot noir specialist Kelley Fox. At the lodge, standard McMenamins accoutrements await: homey movie theater, soaking pool, hippie spa, totally fine bars and restaurants, an outdoor concert venue, and 90 rooms ranging hostel-style bunks to those flaunting private bathrooms. —Matthew Trueherz
Guests at the Setting Inn enjoy morning deliveries of pastries, fruit, juice, and yogurt—the perfect vittles for a day of tasting.
The Setting Inn
Newberg, rooms from $279
Part B&B, part cushy vacation rental, the inn at Newberg’s Setting Wines, which abuts its private tasting room, sits in a relaxed, communal courtyard with firepits and hanging pod chairs. The innkeeper says goodnight around 7pm and returns with a wooden box filled with pastries, fruit, juice, and yogurt each morning, leaving guests to play bocce or wander the gardens and vineyard to a chorus of finches and killdeers. Some of the eight rooms face the pastoral Chehalem Mountains, and a handful have patios or a balcony, the ideal spot for a cup of morning coffee and a croissant before a trip to the tasting room. —BJG
The Tributary Hotel
McMinnville, rooms from $800
Oregon’s lone Relais & Châteaux hotel is somewhat discreet in its luxury. The 10-suite auberge, once a hardware store, sits in the middle of McMinnville, steps from tasting rooms along Third Street and blocks from the celebrated Eyrie Vineyards winery—though its quiet stylings (more moneyed apartment than gilded hôtel) and spacious digs encourage staying in. Raid the Tributary’s own cellar of 1,500 labels, local and otherwise, then recuperate the next morning with the multicourse, in-room breakfast. Its Michelin-par tasting menu restaurant, Okta, led the hotel’s 2022 opening, but the property changed course in 2025, adding a new café and swapping in a more humble, four-course menu at Okta. —MT
With an outdoor pool and inviting firepit, the Vintages in Dayton offer more than kitschy midcentury touches.
The Vintages
Dayton, trailers from $142
For a budget-friendly option, Dayton’s gussied-up trailer park can be a surprisingly romantic couples’ spot. The trailers in question are primarily vintage Airstreams, with cutesy midcentury touches, kitchenettes, and private bathrooms, plus little outdoor grills for post-wine-tasting burgers and hot dogs. When the weather’s nice, plunge into the outdoor pool, or pedal your way through the Dundee Hills on complimentary cruisers. And at sundown, you can claim an Adirondack around the park’s firepit. If this still sounds like “roughing it,” note that there’s also a laundromat, bathhouse, and general store with s’mores kits on-site. —BJG
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