The Best Hotel in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, North Cascades National Park

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.