Portal Peak Lodge
With a lodge, café, and general store on the eastern side of Chiricahua National Monument, this humble structure near the New Mexico border is notable less for its rooms (clean and pleasant but nondescript) than for its winged visitors: the elegant trogon, 14 types of hummingbird, and 10 species of owl are among the 330 varieties of birds that flock to nearby Cave Creek canyon. The rooms, all with two full-size beds, microwave, refrigerator, and coffeemaker, share a large deck. The café serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and cocktails every day until 6:30 pm.
