Photos of Disneyland's periphery

Alpine Inn, 715 W. Katella Ave., Anaheim, CA 92802, (714) 535-2186

The snowy roof and icicles of Alpine Inn make it one of the most unique looking motels in Anaheim.

Icicles, snowy roof, branch windows, and log walls of the Alpine Inn.

Alpine Inn as seen from Hotel Way, which runs between the Anaheim Convention Center (left) and The Jolly Roger (right).

Their nice mid-century rock wall in front in unfortunately always obscured nowadays by this unsightly dumpster.

Many flower pots are hung around the grounds, such as this pot of geraniums on the pool fence.

God I love this old motel. I believe it is the only small motel from the 1960s on Disneyland's periphery that looks virtually the same as it did back then.

The theme is obviously alpine-Matterhorn-Swiss, and many details lend a lot of atmosphere and character to this place: snow on the roof, icicles, frost around the motel office window (currently removed), old Victorian oil lamp in the upper floor, rock walls, Iceland poppies in front, Germanic style flower pots hanging around the property, peaked roof, large timbers, wreaths, and so on.

I stayed here a couple times on trips. The interior is unremarkable and doesn't carry the same theme, but it's a clean, inexpensive motel right next to Disneyland, and in my opinion no other motel or hotel in Orange County has the same value.

The motel's own literature calls their facility by two different names: Alpine Inn, and Alpine Motel. This motel is directly across from the roadway between the ACC and The Jolly Roger.

Just recently (as of 3-3-07) the stucco part of the exterior was painted an ugly yellow, for some reason. The receptionist once told me that the extension over the driveway isn't a residence, that it only appears to be a residence due to the lamps in the windows and so on. In 2003 the hanging Victorian oil lamps in the upper windows had green light bulbs, which gave a unique atmosphere to the place at night, but now those lamps use regular white light bulbs. Convenient for trash trucks but detracting from appearance is that lately the motel has started leaving their dumpster in front of their motel, in front of their attractive rock wall.

The Alpine Inn sign at night.

This Victorian oil lamp hangs inside the window over the car passage.

If you like this motel's theme, be sure to visit Northwoods Inn, which has very much the same theme and architectural style, although their roof has only snow and not icicles.

Northwoods Inn, La Mirada
14305 Firestone Blvd.
La Mirada, CA 90638
(714) 739-0331

The way it used to be... In its very early days, Alpine Inn used to be called Alpine Motel, and lacked the snowy decor and car passage's overhead building. Photo courtesy of Synthetrix [3-28-07]. Alpine Motel [1976-1978] 715 W. Katella Anaheim, CA 92802 (714) 535-2186

Created: February 24, 2007
Updated: May 5, 2007