The World’s First Motel Is for Sale—and It’s Hidden in a Sleepy California Town That Helped Invent the American Road Trip

The World’s First Motel Is for Sale—and It’s Hidden in a Sleepy California Town That Helped Invent the American Road Trip

The historic 1925 property in California’s San Luis Obispo introduced a new kind of roadside lodging and is now searching for its next owner.View of the “first motel” Motel Inn off of Route 101 in San Luis Obispo California.Credit: HUM Images/Getty ImagesDuring California’s golden age of motoring, one Central Coast stop forever changed the American road trip. Nearly a century later, the site of the world’s first motel, built halfway between Los …