Near the junction of Highways 40 and 191, the Best Western Duchesne Inn, Duchesne, Utah, is a welcoming base deep in the Uinta Basin, with spacious rooms featuring full kitchens and flat-screen TVs, free Wi-Fi, a full hot breakfast, a 24-hour indoor pool and hot tub, and a fitness and business center. The hotel welcomes pets.
The setting puts the boating and fishing of a nearby reservoir close by, with scenic drives through a high canyon and the fossil country of Dinosaur National Monument within reach. A county fair and a riverside walk mark the local calendar.
Duchesne sits where the Strawberry and Duchesne rivers meet in eastern Utah's wide Uinta Basin, ranch-and-energy country ringed by sage flats and distant peaks. Trout waters and beaches of Starvation Reservoir spread just west of town, the switchbacks of Indian Canyon climb south toward the coal towns, and the lakes and trails of the High Uintas, the state's tallest range, rise to the north.