California, United States

New hotels in Bakersfield

Kern County's seat at the southern tip of California's Central Valley, where a Wyndham-flagged boutique conversion marks a rare recent hotel investment beyond the interstate chains.

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Iconic hotels in Bakersfield

The Padre Hotel

Bakersfield

The Padre Hotel

Opened 1928 · Independent

An eight-story Spanish Colonial Revival tower by architect John M. Cooper, quickly billed as the finest hotel west of the Rockies with guests including Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Owner Milton 'Spartacus' Miller ran it for 45 colorful years — once mounting a fake missile on the roof aimed at City Hall — before an $18 million restoration reopened it in 2010.

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New hotel openings in Bakersfield

New hotel openings in Bakersfield, California — verified and editorially reviewed.