Rugged Country Lodge

Rugged Country Lodge was built sometime in the 1950′s and was first known as the Pioneer Motel. When the current owners purchased it, the tired little place was being run as the Budget Inn and badly in need of some TLC. In 2004 a new owner bought and renovated it. Each detail was painstakingly researched for months and months and lovingly thought through—right down to the lavender on the beds, the Moran prints on the walls and the Albert Bierstadt butterflies done on quality archival watercolor paper in the bathrooms. The goal was to retain as much of the vintage charm of the place as possible (including the original black tile in the bathrooms) while weaving throughout the themes of nature and the earth—so entwined in this corner of Northeast Oregon.