Sometimes when I am in the mood I turn on this channel during the night and watch these raw videos. To me, even though I am seeing buildings long past their glory days, it relaxes me.
From what I found online, the Road Runner Motel was raided by police a couple of years ago and something like half a mil in marijuana plants was seized.
The second motel was probably abandoned within the last few years. You could hear the low battery warnings on the smoke detectors, and those are pretty recent detectors
Nevada has over 600 ghost towns. Most are abandoned from mines not striking it rich and the rest are failed 'desert playground' attempts. The military bases nearby Tonopah are the only thing keeping that town from extinction.
As one who spent time in motels, back in the '60s when they were a welcome place to spend a night during a trip, these two took me back---minus the vandalism and dirt, of course. My folks and I visited Yellowstone late in June of '67 and found the mountain roads with a foot or more of snow alongside the roads going in. Old Faithful blasted half-heartedly, late, and sleet was pelting down as we ran for the van. On the way out, we experienced all forms of precipitation, and were lucky to find a spacious motel room on the outskirts of Bozeman, MT. Slept like a baby with rain pouring down all night, so I remember it fondly. Free coffee and hot chocolate in the morning, too!
What a contrast between two deserted motels: the first one had a tranquil quality to it, I found it to be a peaceful setting while the second motel has a very different and bad feeling to it. I know it's dated but I imagine there are people who would like some of the furniture from the first place, maybe even because it's so dated! The furniture from the second place: who knows what's been done on or around it; best to leave that alone.
I think crackheads usually live close to civilization in order to panhandle, steal, and buy crack. That Roadrunner Motel seemed way out there; was it close enough to some town to make it attractive to crackheads?
I swear. An entire episode from Breaking Bad could have been filmed in and around there. I keep looking for someone to walk out of one of those rooms wearing red PJs with an ice bucket.
The decor in the Sundowner was "classic" 70's - orange was a popular color during that decade. I'm surprised the place was still so intact. Love your dead motel vids, Dan.
lol I have stayed in that motel. I used to do some desert racing & stopping there makes for a nice, easy 1/2 day drive to Reno. We also felt safer having a race car on the trailer in a small town. lol I love old motels like that. They are cheap, no frills, kinda nostalgic & you can park right outside you door. That was a long time ago. I feel old now.
"TONE-ah-pah" and the first a in Nevada is like apple ;) All of us yell at the TV when someone says Nevada wrong on the news ;) Tonapah has some amazing abandoned mines and structures, as does nearby Goldfield (home of the infamous Goldfield Hotel)...although...Tonapah has the Clown Motel.
Don't be surprised, if so. Upon arriving in Montana (lived there for a year), I was greeted with a "Say no to Meth!" billboard, and that is a big issue out west, from SD to MT, it's ridden with that and heroin.
The sun has definitely set on this motel. Orange carpet goes back to the late seventies. I am surprised that the rooms were as intact as they were and that no one ravaged them.
What a fun time you must have going to such fascinating abandoned places. Museums.. I can't watch the dirty room? series. The first one i watched, i couldn't get past the crap on the bathroom floor. Lol Thanks for sharing your passion ...
I'll be darned if I don't think that's the motel my mother, aunt and I stayed in in 1971 on our way from Waco, Texas to Los Angeles. We had been in Las Vegas earlier in the day, then visited Death Valley Scotty's Castle and came on into Tonapah. We were upstairs with my room on the right end as you're looking at the motel and Mother and Aunt Mary's next to mine. That AC unit in the back wall was the noisiest thing when the compressor kicked on you ever heard--I think you could have heard it all the way to Waco.
Great video, every time you opened a door I was expected a dead body. Have you ever came across someone living in these motels? Its a shame the government don't do them up as hostels for homeless or low income people.
I stayed in several Motels in the 70s and 80s.I don`t think they had as bad a reputation back then.They were well maintained and always had Patrons.Brings back some good memories.I think the Rvs have helped kill the Motel business.Plus all the drugs and crime,which did not seem as bad back in the day.Love these kind of videos.Thanks for posting.
Click the "like" before any of Dan's vids even start so that I won't forget to do it. Always know it'll be good stuff ; ) Thanks for taking your journey out West guys, and sharing your adventure with us. According to Twitter it looks like you guys are back to the East coast. I'll bet the furbabies were happy to have their Dad (Dan) back home. I'm still planning to order a print off Etsy, and support such journeys. With Will's love for vintage horror, and Dan's keen eye/appreciation for vintage architecture, fake plants, and weird things from eras gone by, you guys are hands down, the most interesting, worth while 'tubers in my book.
The Roadrunner didn't close until late 2014. It was a druggie place long before it closed, and several shootings and knifings took place in the 10 years before it closed. Looks like the same people are now living in it for free. This is not a place I would have picked to hang around and explore.
So cool. There's another abandoned motel off I-84 east in Farewell Bend, Oregon. Rooms are furnished. It's like they just jumped ship and left everything. Windows are all boarded up though
Where do the stairs go? I wished you done a more detailed video of these places, the second spot looked like it was a very nice place at one time long long ago. pronounced tone-a-paw.
Should have checked out that wierd second floor office or whatever I assume was on top of the Road Runner Motel... So cool though. I would probably stay at an abandoned motel in the desert if nobody else was there, can't beat the price.
Always love the roadside motels.. extra points for the mom and pop diner in the same vicinity and or connected to the hotel. Brings back childhood memories of Mammoth Cave in the early 80s, staying just outside the Cave in Cave City, and in walking distance of Guntown Mountain, there was a Jerry's restaurant that had thee best "vacation" food possible. As always, thanks for these videos and drudging up the swept away kiddy memories of mine!
Awesome vid! That second hotel(Road Runner)was raided a few years back as the owner was growing marijuana there. Not sure if that's why it ended up closing.
The Dead Motels series now begins......by goin' on Route 66;it looked like it had seen better days. I wonder what it had looked like since it first opened?
The owner of that road runner hotel is actually in jail for drugs the place got raided back in 2014 btw Dan please do me a favour and clean you're BMW haha I would literally die if my 1 series was like that haha!!
i could not only carry your little car with my truck but drive over it. Guess you know what I think of your little toy. Doubting anyone with a beemer knows anything about mechanics, but sure they know a lot about highly inflated costs at the dealership. daf , and you probably don't even own one.
mountaintruth1 - So what? You know what they say about guys that drive big trucks. . . that they're overcompensating for what they lack in "other areas". So, I wouldn't be so proud if I were you because everyone knows "big truck = tiny dick."
2018 and doing a binge watch ..love your videos and some of these places are beyond creepy have me on edge of my seat. Some of these be a good horror movie set
One of these days you're going to be filming your murderer coming at you. Be careful. Just a BTW Dan, I'd never ever ever wish anything bad happen to either you or Will. What you're doing is absolutely fascinating..I'm glued to all of your films. I can just picture thru your POV and imagine weird things lol! Much love and respect from Michigan.
Sometimes when I am in the mood I turn on this channel during the night and watch these raw videos. To me, even though I am seeing buildings long past their glory days, it relaxes me.
Definitely looks to be 70's motif at the Sundowner with the orange carpet, and look of the television. Love these places, truly locked in time.
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Vette_Dude84 I bet those tv's still work too
50s-70s
From what I found online, the Road Runner Motel was raided by police a couple of years ago and something like half a mil in marijuana plants was seized.
Shit they claimed I had a cool million growing in the closet of my 18 foot travel trailer.
Minus the dust, it looks cleaner than your Econolodge room. 😛😛
I agree.
Obviously Michelle (wasn't that her name?) wasn't the housekeeper here
Dan Bell / Film It Nice place for a serial killer.
Looks like the Rodeway Inn in Kentucky
He kept saying this place was horrible but it’s 1000% cleaner than any abandoned place in Baltimore!
The second motel was probably abandoned within the last few years. You could hear the low battery warnings on the smoke detectors, and those are pretty recent detectors
Those rooms were cleaner than the roach motel.
Nevada has over 600 ghost towns. Most are abandoned from mines not striking it rich and the rest are failed 'desert playground' attempts. The military bases nearby Tonopah are the only thing keeping that town from extinction.
As one who spent time in motels, back in the '60s when they were a welcome place to spend a night during a trip, these two took me back---minus the vandalism and dirt, of course. My folks and I visited Yellowstone late in June of '67 and found the mountain roads with a foot or more of snow alongside the roads going in. Old Faithful blasted half-heartedly, late, and sleet was pelting down as we ran for the van. On the way out, we experienced all forms of precipitation, and were lucky to find a spacious motel room on the outskirts of Bozeman, MT. Slept like a baby with rain pouring down all night, so I remember it fondly. Free coffee and hot chocolate in the morning, too!
Those smoke alarm beeps . . . I thought they were my smoke alarms making that noise.
Yeah it sounded like they were right in my apartment. O_o
So did we
Tnb Spotter
Ha- ha, me too!
That hotel looks really good in shape for it to be a vintage hotel. I'm pretty impressed...
Dan, you and Will should totally do Q+A video!
That would be so much fun
yes! great idea.
That should definitely happen
What a contrast between two deserted motels: the first one had a tranquil quality to it, I found it to be a peaceful setting while the second motel has a very different and bad feeling to it. I know it's dated but I imagine there are people who would like some of the furniture from the first place, maybe even because it's so dated! The furniture from the second place: who knows what's been done on or around it; best to leave that alone.
"Don't be such a Sundowner"
At least we can't add dog bites to your list of fun filled trip tales! 😉🐕
+Cindy D'Adamo AMEN FOR THAT!!!
Dan and Will, I love your videos and appreciate all of the hard work that you put into making these. I can't wait to see what's next!
+Diane Duffe thanks, Diane!
Yay a abandoned Motel love these!! Love the 70's look.
I think crackheads usually live close to civilization in order to panhandle, steal, and buy crack. That Roadrunner Motel seemed way out there; was it close enough to some town to make it attractive to crackheads?
I swear. An entire episode from Breaking Bad could have been filmed in and around there. I keep looking for someone to walk out of one of those rooms wearing red PJs with an ice bucket.
The decor in the Sundowner was "classic" 70's - orange was a popular color during that decade. I'm surprised the place was still so intact. Love your dead motel vids, Dan.
lol I have stayed in that motel. I used to do some desert racing & stopping there makes for a nice, easy 1/2 day drive to Reno. We also felt safer having a race car on the trailer in a small town. lol I love old motels like that. They are cheap, no frills, kinda nostalgic & you can park right outside you door. That was a long time ago. I feel old now.
Looks cleaner than that Econo Lodge!
"TONE-ah-pah" and the first a in Nevada is like apple ;) All of us yell at the TV when someone says Nevada wrong on the news ;) Tonapah has some amazing abandoned mines and structures, as does nearby Goldfield (home of the infamous Goldfield Hotel)...although...Tonapah has the Clown Motel.
Me too
Yeah, us East coasters learned to say it as nev-AH-da...... Ill try and remember to pronounce it right 😉
As always Dan another wonderful video! 😉
Beautiful spacious rooms! The furniture looks very sturdy. I love the view of the mountains.
Cool. Very old school indeed. The lamp and the television were the first things I noticed.
Always enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.
I wonder if someone was running a meth lab out of the Roadrunner with that big empty room.
First thing I thought too lol
Nope, over 100 marijuana plants - www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Schurz-Elementary-273648241.html
Awww...police shot the dog.
Bacon & Eggs i wouldn't b suprised
Don't be surprised, if so. Upon arriving in Montana (lived there for a year), I was greeted with a "Say no to Meth!" billboard, and that is a big issue out west, from SD to MT, it's ridden with that and heroin.
love watching these videos on abandoned places , very relaxing .
Those abandoned rooms are still nicer than the ones they are renting at the Royal Inn. Seriously!
love your vids! keep up the awesome work.
Toe-NOPE-uh. LOL! Nahvahdah! Too funny!
You guys make such great chemistry, I like that Will is always just there being Will haha.
Excellent work touring this abandoned motel. It's cool to see those moments in time just sitting there untouched. Great job!
The "Sundowner Motel" looks like It's been abandoned for a very long time, rooms in a mess, old furniture, old fashioned glass screen televisions
When you're from Tonopah, you do crack all day everyday
Yep sometimes you smoke alot a dopa!
Here in STL, it's weed. XD
The sun has definitely set on this motel. Orange carpet goes back to the late seventies. I am surprised that the rooms were as intact as they were and that no one ravaged them.
Sundowner you better take care. If I find you've been crappin' round my back stair.
The Sundowner appeared more fit for habitation than some of the filthy bug infested holes you have featured on your new series!
Love your videos Dan. Keep up the good work!
Wow, you guys came all the way out West! How cool. And I love old defunct stuff in the desert.
looks nicer than the bed bug motel!
I totally grew up with those big drum looking lamp shades. 😄
Room number 4 looks so cozy and peaceful.
It's Tone-AW-Paw, Nehv-AH-Da, with the second syllable pronounced as in the word "Trap".
I can imagine the STD strains, dried body fluids & spilled meth. Free tv's though - have one!
It's so sad that a motel that has been abandoned for years looks like it's in better shape than some of the more expensive ones on ADR... Just wow.
The pillow looks like it has head indentations on it around 5:30
yeah your right
That place is very interesting. Nice find
We toured the same Motel last week, Nevada Arcade, nice work Dan
What a fun time you must have going to such fascinating abandoned places. Museums..
I can't watch the dirty room? series. The first one i watched, i couldn't get past the crap on the bathroom floor. Lol
Thanks for sharing your passion ...
I really miss the long version of videos
Lol the motels I remember from my childhood when we actually got to travel. Very cool.
I'll be darned if I don't think that's the motel my mother, aunt and I stayed in in 1971 on our way from Waco, Texas to Los Angeles. We had been in Las Vegas earlier in the day, then visited Death Valley Scotty's Castle and came on into Tonapah. We were upstairs with my room on the right end as you're looking at the motel and Mother and Aunt Mary's next to mine. That AC unit in the back wall was the noisiest thing when the compressor kicked on you ever heard--I think you could have heard it all the way to Waco.
That carpet is lovely!
Great video, every time you opened a door I was expected a dead body. Have you ever came across someone living in these motels? Its a shame the government don't do them up as hostels for homeless or low income people.
Sad to See these old motels fading into history. The stories they could tell.
I stayed in several Motels in the 70s and 80s.I don`t think they had as bad a reputation back then.They were well maintained and always had Patrons.Brings back some good memories.I think the Rvs have helped kill the Motel business.Plus all the drugs and crime,which did not seem as bad back in the day.Love these kind of videos.Thanks for posting.
scary image coming across a body in one of those rooms you've been kinda lucky not to of come across some crazy people or anyone dead
Emma Amanda Milli we would never know ...
Click the "like" before any of Dan's vids even start so that I won't forget to do it. Always know it'll be good stuff ; ) Thanks for taking your journey out West guys, and sharing your adventure with us. According to Twitter it looks like you guys are back to the East coast. I'll bet the furbabies were happy to have their Dad (Dan) back home.
I'm still planning to order a print off Etsy, and support such journeys. With Will's love for vintage horror, and Dan's keen eye/appreciation for vintage architecture, fake plants, and weird things from eras gone by, you guys are hands down, the most interesting, worth while 'tubers in my book.
Thank you, Ashley!
great minds thinking alike !
The rooms in the first motel looked cleaner than the ones in "Another Dirty Room"!
Kristen T sad ain't it?
The obligatory smoke alarm dead battery beep @ 5:32
The Roadrunner didn't close until late 2014. It was a druggie place long before it closed, and several shootings and knifings took place in the 10 years before it closed. Looks like the same people are now living in it for free. This is not a place I would have picked to hang around and explore.
Duuude you pronounced both tonopah and Nevada wrong lol
What a difference the dry climate makes... no mold
Take a roadtrip this summer and come to Canada Dan & Will!
So cool. There's another abandoned motel off I-84 east in Farewell Bend, Oregon. Rooms are furnished. It's like they just jumped ship and left everything. Windows are all boarded up though
Where do the stairs go? I wished you done a more detailed video of these places, the second spot looked like it was a very nice place at one time long long ago. pronounced tone-a-paw.
Some of these are in better shape than the "Another Dirty Room" series...
Nice to see you guys.
road runner motel, surprisingly no pool on the premises??? with the hot & dry climate desert???surprising. thanks for the visit guys.
Should have checked out that wierd second floor office or whatever I assume was on top of the Road Runner Motel... So cool though. I would probably stay at an abandoned motel in the desert if nobody else was there, can't beat the price.
I love that first-person shooter head-bob.
Dan and Will both would of jumped if they seen someone sleeping on one of the beds! 😆😂
That's cleaner than some of the motel's I've lived in. btw, it's pronounced TOE-NO-paw.
Always love the roadside motels.. extra points for the mom and pop diner in the same vicinity and or connected to the hotel. Brings back childhood memories of Mammoth Cave in the early 80s, staying just outside the Cave in Cave City, and in walking distance of Guntown Mountain, there was a Jerry's restaurant that had thee best "vacation" food possible. As always, thanks for these videos and drudging up the swept away kiddy memories of mine!
Awesome vid! That second hotel(Road Runner)was raided a few years back as the owner was growing marijuana there. Not sure if that's why it ended up closing.
I need more barely conscious, slap-happy Will and Dan commentary Cutting Room Floor episodes.
The Dead Motels series now begins......by goin' on Route 66;it looked like it had seen better days. I wonder what it had looked like since it first opened?
Better than Econo Lodge by at least one infestation.
The first motel was cleaner than some of the worst motel's you've shown on ADR.
Why do people do that? First? Is there a prize? I just don't understand why it matters? What am I missing? Educate me.
Here you go:
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I've done it. You're like woo hoo, I'm the first to comment. Can't pass it up
What cracks me up is when there are 50 comments that all say "First". that usually happens on Instagram. makes me laugh.
Jorna Rood now that's funny. backup account
Gina Lola I tell you why. are you listening?
The owner of that road runner hotel is actually in jail for drugs the place got raided back in 2014 btw Dan please do me a favour and clean you're BMW haha I would literally die if my 1 series was like that haha!!
i could not only carry your little car with my truck but drive over it. Guess you know what I think of your little toy. Doubting anyone with a beemer knows anything about mechanics, but sure they know a lot about highly inflated costs at the dealership. daf , and you probably don't even own one.
mountaintruth1 - So what? You know what they say about guys that drive big trucks. . . that they're overcompensating for what they lack in "other areas". So, I wouldn't be so proud if I were you because everyone knows "big truck = tiny dick."
Bees, rattlesnakes, and scorpions oh my!
Man, looks like this Craigslist ad really payed out!
Sundowner looked way cleaner than the in-operation Econo Lodge roach motel you filmed.
been past there probably, loved Nevada. Still do.
Wow .. it would be so nice to see what it looked like when it was new and then compared it to now.. is was probably nice during the 70's...
Fallout vibes this place has is crazy. Was hoping you stumble upon a Nuka Cola.
2018 and doing a binge watch ..love your videos and some of these places are beyond creepy have me on edge of my seat. Some of these be a good horror movie set
Everything actually looks in VERY good condition. Maybe you could use this as a section 8...
Loved this one!
The furnishings are groovy,
Thank you. You almost expected that there was a crackhead. in one of those beds, when you opened the doors, very creepy
According to an article I found via a quick Google search, the Roadrunner Inn was a abandoned in 2014 after the owner was arrested in California.
Holy shit I've driven by that before, was wondering what these looked like on the inside.
Even though it's abandoned I think this motel is probably cleaner and better that the motel rooms you review in another dirty room
One of these days you're going to be filming your murderer coming at you. Be careful.
Just a BTW Dan, I'd never ever ever wish anything bad happen to either you or Will. What you're doing is absolutely fascinating..I'm glued to all of your films. I can just picture thru your POV and imagine weird things lol! Much love and respect from Michigan.
Still cleaner than some of the places you’ve profiled
The first Motel was a lot nicer than the Roach infested Motel you guys stayed at.