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Welcome to Mendocino's most celebrated Resort Lodge - a bed and breakfast hotel on the Mendocino Coast of California.

Nestled on a hillside, the exquisite Stanford Inn sits atop a meadow overlooking Mendocino Bay. Embodying the best of the rugged Mendocino Coast, the Inn is a haven. The rambling lobby, guest rooms, and suites are paneled in pine and redwood. Every detail is attended to, from wood-burning fireplaces set and ready to light to the sumptuous organic breakfasts. Inspired by the Stanford’s Certified Organic gardens, The Raven’s restaurant is outstanding and nationally acclaimed for its vegetarian cuisine. Guests are indulged at the Inn’s Massage in the Forest and private yoga sessions. Canoeing and kayaking on Big River, California’s new State Park.

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PUBLISHED IN OVER 139 MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS

"With all the essential amenities of a first-class inn, as well as that special air of things sublime, the Stanford Inn is in a coveted league of its own." Romancing the Coast

"This is the kind of place we would all build if we were as singled-minded, as energetic, as creative as the Stanford family. The Inn is wonderful!"
National Geographic Traveler

"If an inn can be simultaneously rustic and luxurious, romantic and invigorating, quiet and exciting, then the Stanford Inn by the Sea is such a place." Newsday

"Joan and Jeff Stanford have created the ultimate escape, an inn so peaceful and all-encompassing that there's little reason to move from the premises all weekend." Sacramento Magazine

“Mendocino’s Best Inn”
Lonely Planet

"Embodying the best of the Mendocino Coast"
Doug McConnell, Bay Area Back Roads.


• Seasonal Specials!

• Panoramic views of the ocean and    village of Mendocino

• Exquisite guest rooms w/wood burning    fireplaces

• Swimming Pool & Hot Tub

• Award winning "organic" breakfast

• Pet-Friendly rooms and grounds

• Working organic farm

• Llamas, horses, and a host of other   gentle creatures

• Organic dining in Ravens' Vegetarian    Restaurant - visit our new website

• Yoga and Massage in the Forest

• Mountain Bikes, Kayaking, Canoeing

• Weddings, Conferences, Events

• Mendocino Upcoming Events

• Cellular Services from Onsite Facilities

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“Rustic hilltop elegance” - Los Angeles Magazine

“ . . . more than a magnificent resort . . . It’s a true ecosystem.”
- Northern California Best Places

“It’s the best kept secret in Mendocino.” - The Oakland Tribune
“Consider the facilities for a rainy Sunday like this: the room looks out across a private patio to the ocean. A fireplace opposite the foot of the bed, several cords of good wood outside, dry and ready. Lots of crackle. Glass fireplace doors so I can leave it burning when I doze or slumber. The bed’s a big four-poster with first class linen, lots of good pillows. A desk, good chairs – stuff I’d enjoy at home. In fact, that’s what this feels like . . . home, not a room at an inn.” - The Business Journal
Mendocino Stanford Inn by the Sea in Mendocino CA

STANFORD INN BY THE SEA
Jeff & Joan Stanford, Innkeepers

Coast Highway and Comptche Ukiah Road
-  Post Office Box 487  -
Mendocino, CA 95460

800-331-8884 • 707-937-5615
FAX: 707-937-0305

Email: info@stanfordinn.com
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ABOUT MENDOCINO CALIFORNIA (mendocino, ca): Mendocino sits atop beautiful ocean bluffs surrounded on three sides by Mendocino Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The bluffs comprise the Mendocino Headlands and offer walking trails that afford incredible views of the ocean and the lovingly restored 1850's New England style Victorians which now house restaurants, specialty shops, galleries and provide lodging for Mendocino artists.

Historic buildings line the cliffs. At times the Pacific roars and crashes against the headlands with such force spindrift floats up to Main Street. The air tastes salty. In a complex surrounding what was once a Victorian carriage house is the Mendocino Art Center, described by the National Endowment for the Arts as a "rural miracle." The Mendocino Art Center serves area artists as well as artists and aspiring artists throughout the United States. All this is the nature of Mendocino, located about 150 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 1.

Besides the natural beauty, visitors to Mendocino will find a variety of things to see and do. The history of Mendocino and its founding families can be explored at the Ford House and the Kelley House museums. The Mendocino Community presents a variety of events from monthly art openings that celebrate art on the Second Saturday of every month to the annual Mendocino Music Festival providing performances in a huge tent on the Headlands in July. Other annual events include a Whale Festival, the Mendocino Art Center's Garden Tour featuring exquisitely created home gardens with a luncheon at the Stanford Inn's Raven's Restaurant, an old-time 4th of July parade, the renown Art in the Gardens presented by the Mendocino Botanical Gardens, Winesong celebrating fine wines and local culinary talents in a tasting followed by an auction and celebrations of the Christmas holidays with lights and singing at the inns and lodges of Mendocino, Little River and Elk, and much more.

Hikers and mountain bikers enjoy bluff-top excursions to view seabirds, the seasonal gray whale migration and spring wildflowers. Nearby Big River Beach is ideal for family picnics and Big River is an ecological treasure which is easily explored by canoe or kayak which can be rented at Catch A Canoe & Bicycles, too! Montgomery Woods up Comptche Ukiah Road offers virgin redwood groves with the tallest living tree in the world. Redwoods and Douglas Firs dominate the Russian Gulch State Park as well as other nearby State Parks including Van Damme and Hendy Woods. Many of these parks allow dogs on their trails. And at MacKerricher State Park Lari Shea offer horseback riding along the beach.

There are no supermarkets, fast food chains or motels in Mendocino. Small markets, intimate restaurants, a hotel and bed and breakfast inns fill the needs of the vacationer. The town is compact and shopping and dining destinations are within easy walking distance of one another.

Mendocino is an art collectors dream. Coast artists show their works at the Mendocino Art Center and in the scores of privately owned galleries. Performing arts include productions by the Mendocino Theatre Company, Hit and Run Theater as well as intimate concerts provided at the Mendocino Art Center and the Caspar Inn.

Mendocino is truly a special destination - it is the "wine country coast" with Anderson Valley wineries within only twenty minutes drive and Sonoma's fine wineries just an hour south.