Where to stay · Pemberton Valley
The Hitching Post / Pemberton Hostel & B&B options
A Lil'wat Nation motel on two quiet acres, with log cabins and prices from another decade.
what it is
guesthouse / B&B (value + solo)
the damage
from ~$96/night
from Vancouver
~2.5 hours up Highway 99
The Hitching Post sits on two green acres in Mount Currie, five minutes past Pemberton, relaunched under the ownership of the Lil'wat Nation, whose territory this has always been. Its twelve motel rooms carry Indigenous branding and local art, and the buildings sit far enough back from Highway 99 that the loudest thing at night is generally the mountain.
Rooms come with kitchenettes, fridges, kettles, air conditioning and satellite television, and if that sounds insufficiently rustic there are log cabins and a two-bedroom cottage with full kitchens and actual living rooms. Rates start around $96 a night, which in the Sea to Sky corridor reads less like a price and more like a clerical anomaly.
If you want to comparison shop the valley's budget end, Pemberton proper offers the AWA Whistler Pemberton hotel downtown plus a small handful of B&Bs, including a cabin at Sweetwater Lane Farm, a working homestead where the wake-up call is administered by chickens. The Hitching Post remains the anchor though: clean, quiet, and refreshingly honest about being a motel.
The setting
On Highway 99 in Mount Currie, on Lil'wat Nation territory, five minutes east of downtown Pemberton and about 30 minutes from Whistler Village, directly beneath the mountain it shares a name with.
Getting there
Highway 99 from Vancouver: roughly 160 km, about two and a half hours, no ferries anywhere in the itinerary. Free on-site parking. Car-free genuinely works: BC Transit's Pemberton Valley system links Whistler, Pemberton and Mount Currie, though schedules are built for commuters, so check times before promising anyone dinner.
good to know
Why it works
- Relaunched under Lil'wat Nation ownership with local art
- Log cabins and a two-bedroom cottage with full kitchens
- Rooms from roughly $96 a night
- Two quiet acres set well back from Highway 99
- Five minutes from Pemberton, thirty from Whistler