Cozy Mountain Motel

The room was small but just enough to function in. This town rolls up the streets by 6pm so if hungry get there by 4pm.
Bathroom and room clean. New a/​c units.
Bed comfortable and I slept well.
Great breakfast at toiyabe café.

The rooms were very clean like everyone said bit there was only enough room to walk around the bed. There was no place to hang clothes and no hairdryer or coffee pot. probably will not stay here again. Also there was no interlock on the doors and there was a half-​inch gap in the door so you saw daylight.

If you are ever in Austin Nevada and need a room I recommend the cozy mountain motel. Rooms are clean and staff is very friendly and helpful.

Oh man, it’s so nice to experience a small motel with some serious TLC. We stayed for three night – two were planned, a third was unexpected. We had to change rooms because of the added day. Both rooms were VERY clean, the beds were great. If you’re traveling through the area, this is the place. Kudos to the management.

Spent 9 days on our off road track across Nevada and landed here. Great place with fresh, clean, warm rooms. Management was extremely friendly and helpful. We will be back this year to use this place as our rest stop.

Seriously, a five-​star experience!
While traveling through central Nevada on a road trip with my sister, we hit a spell of shitty, freezing weather that prevented us from continuing with our camping plans. We’re both broke, so price was an issue — and consequently, we ended up staying in some SUPER-SH*TTY places!
This joint, however, was AMAZING! Especially after our previous night’s stay at a crack-​ish motel in Hawthorne, the CMM was like PARADISE! Very cozy, very clean — like staying at Grandma’s house. I loved everything about this motel. Even the provided toiletries are upscale and fun. Water was hot and the shower pressure was great.
But the price was the same — if not slightly lower than — the unnamed crack-​ish place we stayed in Hawthorne! Go figure.
The lady at the desk was super cool, as well. I would DEFINITELY, 100% stay here again.
My only quibble was, there was no coffee maker in the room. They may have had coffee in the office, but I just went across the street to the International to get some, which was fabulous. So, no harm, no foul.
Again, 100% endorsement here. I love this place!!!

I was headed to Eureka, but they were full up. I’ve passed through Austin a million times, but never stayed there. Honestly, none of the hotels looked worth spending money on. I would rather just drive out into the forest and sleep in the car. But I thought I would check out the Unilocal hive mind, and the (Cozy) Mountain Motel looked like a pretty good place.
I called and Cindy quoted me $ 55+tax ($ 60 total) and saved me a room. I wasn’t going to get to Austin until 10 or 11pm, which is past her bedtime. She said she would leave the key in an envelope with my name on it, and tape it to the front window.
And she did! It was kind of bizarre to drive in in the dark and see your name in big letters on the window!
The rooms are small, but the bed is super comfortable. The box spring and mattress are each about 10−12″ thick, so the top of the bed is higher than normal. I liked it.
There’s a flat screen TV suspended overhead with hundreds of satellite channels. I tihink it was DirecTV. Didn’t watch it much, but it worked fine.
There’s a laptop tray — «don’t put your luggage on it!»
Bathroom is functional and very clean.
Windows have very nice wooden horizontal blinds.
The porch/​sidewalk area is decorated with interesting stuff. Looks like smokers do their business there, since there’s no smoking inside. I didn’t smell any smoke inside or outside.
Rooms have definitely been remodeled since the ‘50s or whenever the motel was built. Nice baseboards and wall decorations. The door was nicely painted too, but underneath it seemed kind of like a styrofoam cooler door. Maybe like a cruise ship, or a train sleeper door.
Very clean everywhere. The owner attends to the details. I definitely would stay here again if I had the need. I’m even looking at other «retro» hotels in my travels, since now I know they /​can/​be updated on the inside. Everyone should mention Unilocal when they visit. I told Cindy that Unilocal is why I decided to stay there, and she kind of acted like she didn’t know what it was, even though I mentioned the owner’s comments on the review page.
The one downside is parking. The parking lot has plenty of room for bicycles or even motorcycles. Not for working trucks and family SUVs and minivans. Fortunately, there’s some curb space in front of the hotel and there’s no worries about parking in Austin overnight.
Hit this!

Driving Highway 50 we ended up wanting to crash just as we hit Austin, the guy at the place next door was creepy. By contrast, this place was great. The woman at the front desk was super warm and welcoming, the rooms super clean, and the quality of linens, etc were far beyond what one would expect in such an isolated place. It may look simple on the outside, and the rooms are not large, but everything inside is first rate. Big thumbs up.

Very good, clean rooms. I’d stay here again… and recommend to others as well.

I was looking for a motel for the night and all I saw were 3 motels that did not look all that appealing. I chose the middle one because it had a huge sign out front stating it has free WiFi. I don’t usually expect much of old style motels. I was so pleasantly surprised. This place has some of the nicest rooms I have stayed in. Yes, as stated by others, they are small. But, no smell of smoke from yesteryear. They are ultra clean, have new beds/​furniture, flat panel TVs, free WiFi, micro/​TV in room, all for a decent price. This place should not be a last resort place to stay. It should be a destination.

There are only a few choices for lodging in Austin and of those few choices, only one motel sells out all of their rooms every night consistently: The Cozy Mountain Motel.
There is a reason for this: it is very, very clean. Spotlessly clean. The pillow-​top mattresses are nearly new and very comfortable. And there is free WiFi. The rooms are cozy, very cozy. That means small. No worries!
Smokers and those traveling with their pets will need to bunk elsewhere, but if that is not a deal-​breaker, this is the best choice for Austin.
The owner has a very nice cat, by the way.