2 Best Hotels in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, North Cascades National Park

Crackling fires and Lake Chelan views are provided both in standard rooms in the Alpine House, with its shared lounge and lakeside deck, and in larger rooms in the Swiss Mont building, with its private decks overlooking the water. The fully equipped Lake House comes with a fireplace, hot tub, and laundry. American fare is served in the restaurant, open only during high season.

Alongside pretty meadows at the edge of pine forest, this rustic ranch is a center for hikers and horseback riders, who stay in barnlike cabins with cedar paneling, tile floors, and a private bath, in trailer-like wagons that sleep two, or in canvas-roof tent cabins with bunk beds, kerosene lamps, and shared bathrooms. New in 2023, the solar-powered Ranch House sleeps six to nine people, with three bedrooms, kitchen, and laundry. Enormous breakfasts and meaty dinner buffets are turned out family-style at picnic tables in the lodgelike restaurant. Rates for ranch and tent cabins include accommodations, linens, meals, and transport from Stehekin Landing.