The Best Hotels in Pittsburgh

The façade is modeled on the Ritz Paris, which tells you exactly what you're in for at this Forbes Five Star resort in the Pennsylvania countryside. Inside, vaulted ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and white-gloved butlers on the club level set the tone. The grounds, though, are where things get interesting: two golf courses, Polaris off-road adventures, and, yes, actual zoo animals wandering the property.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star

Set on 2,200 acres of Allegheny Mountain terrain, The Grand Lodge at Nemacolin is a Forbes Four Star resort lodge that leans hard into the rustic-luxury thing, recently refreshed with updated rooms, an American steakhouse, and two bars. The whimsical interiors thread a needle between hunting-cabin warmth and genuine comfort, so it never feels like a theme park version of the outdoors. The grounds do most of the work once you're here.

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star

A Kimpton property housed in a historic downtown building steps from the Golden Triangle, Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh leans into the city's unexpected cool, pairing bold, art-forward interiors with the brand's trademark pet-friendly, wine-hour quirks. Pittsburgh itself does a lot of the selling, a city of three rivers, craft breweries in recycled churches, and serious art museums that visitors routinely underestimate until they're already booking a return trip.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

A century-old YMCA in East Liberty that local artists helped reimagine rather than just move into. The Ace is a hotel where spare, sunny rooms coexist with ornate bones, suites come stocked with turntables and acoustic guitars, and the lobby fills daily with the laptop-open, coffee-nursing crowd. The anchor bar, Whitfield, runs a neighborhood-tavern menu with meat butchered in-house from a single nearby ranch.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels

Two Pete Dye golf courses, a casino, a wellness center offering Chinese herbal medicine, sporting clays, fishing, multiple pools, and several restaurants: Nemacolin, a sprawling resort in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands, operates on the principle that you should never have to make a decision about what to do next. It sits about an hour from Pittsburgh, deep enough in the woods to feel like its own zip code. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Hotels