This is Bodega Bay’s best hotel—set on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific, just across the road from Doran Beach State Park. Each of the large rooms features luxe cherry-wood furnishings, black granite bathrooms, a fireplace, and a private balcony with sweeping views of the bay and bird-filled marshes.

Guests have complimentary access to a fitness center and sauna, heated pool above the bay, and a full-service ocean-view spa offering an array of massages and body/facial treatments. The lodge’s Duck Club Restaurant enjoys a reputation as Bodega Bay’s most romantic, with picture windows that show off the bay views, and cuisine that highlights the best of Sonoma County seasonal and sustainably farmed produce, seafood and meats—think roasted Petaluma duck and fish delivered to the kitchen fresh off the Bodega fleet.