motor lodge

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If a lodging’s guest rooms open directly to the outdoors and there’s a parking lot handy, industry experts say, it probably was born as a motel or motor lodge.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

Part of the Maswik Lodge complex, Maswik South is meant to hark back to the site’s original 1920s motor lodge, when traveling by car to the national parks was first in vogue.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

And business at his motor lodge has been terrible.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2022

The jump-off point is the outdoorsy town of Jackson, where the 49-room Anvil Hotel, a former 1950s motor lodge, reopened in 2017, packed to its wooden rafters with mountain charm.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019

In the end, we were saved by a Howard Johnson’s motor lodge.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover