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Red Garter Inn, Williams

The Red Garter Inn, a former bordello in Williams
The Red Garter Inn, a former bordello in Williams · Photo: Scottb211 from Gaylord, Michigan, U.S.A., CC BY 2.0

Night two. An 1897 saloon and bordello across from the Grand Canyon Railway depot, restored into a four-room inn. The rooms are Madam’s Room, Best Gal’s Room, Big Bertha’s Room and The Parlor, and graffiti left by early-1900s visitors survives on some walls. Reviews are excellent; ~$120+ a night. Not a motel — upstairs rooms, no elevator, check-in from 4 pm — but it answers the brothel question and is an hour from the canyon.