Bed & Breakfast in casual elegance, one block from the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Five second-floor rooms, private baths, private balconies, full breakfast. Victorian country cottage atmosphere, gazebo and glorious rose garden. Completely reconstructed building was the Ely City Grocery of 1907. Adult focus.

Steptoe Valley Inn is an oasis in America's Great Basin outback, enhanced with spruce and fruit trees that provide shade to an old fashioned rose garden with gazebo, birds, swing, and croquet court. Originally built in 1907 as the Ely City Grocery, Steptoe Valley Inn was completely reconstructed in 1990. Great care was taken to include details from elegant Victorian cottages. Evident throughout the Inn is extensive use of hand painted accents, decorative wood trim, tile mosaics, marble thresholds, tasteful lighting and plumbing fixtures, elegant brass hardware, high embossed ceilings, and etch and stained glass. Guests will enjoy relaxing in the library or the TV reading room, living room or large upstairs veranda.

The 5 uniquely decorated guest rooms, named after "Ely City" pioneers, are located on the second floor. All have ceiling fans, individual air conditioning/heating units, cable TV, lace curtains, and private baths. Each room has a private balcony. The McGill room faces Squaw Peak and the Nevada Northern Depot. Decorated in pastel shades, it has a white iron queen bed. The Requa looks at the Depot through trees and lilacs. It is a comfortable and cozy room with queen size bed. Bartley and Gray is the northeast room overlooking the Steptoe Valley and the railroad. It has natural pine twin beds. The southwest room called Nunnelly, decorated in cool misty green and white, features front windows and a pencil post, honey pine queen bed with a quilt and fishnet canopy reminiscent of early America. The southeast room, Gunn and Thompson is at the back of the building with views of the lawn and roses. Sunny and cheery with it sparkling white wicker furniture, it has both a queen and twin bed.

Each day your innkeepers plan a special entree. A typical day might begin with oven baked Dutch Baby pancakes, maple syrup, and sausage and fresh fruit.

Ely is nestled in high sagebrush desert (6,253 ft.) below Pinyon and Juniper covered foothills and high mountains with Bristlecone Pine, White Fir, Quaking Aspen and bubbling mountain streams. Enjoy cool nights, scenic countryside, the "Ghost Train of Old Ely", the Great Basin National Park, Cave Lake State Park. Nearby you can play golf or tennis.