travel42 Hotel Review: The Madrona

The Madrona travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Sitting atop a forested bluff, surveying the now legendary Dry Creek appellation and sleeping volcano that is Mount St. Helena, a 10-minute drive to town, this iconic inn and restaurant resembles a small, refined European hotel surrounded by eight acres of farmland.

Arrivals often do a double-take, as the hotel's robust three-story main building comes into view, a striking vision of California's splendid, hybridized Victorian design.

Built in 1881, t...