The Anchor Motel
825 Ocean Rd
Narragansett, RI
A tidy beach motel that keeps guests coming back.
This property is an Honorable Mention. It has been vetted and approved for our highest standards of cleanliness, safety, and operational excellence. While it is still evolving toward our full design-led designation, it is a proven, reliable anchor for any road trip. We recommend it with confidence.
About The Anchor Motel
This is a family owned and operated motel, and it shows in the details. The same people who greet you at the office are the ones keeping the place immaculate, and that continuity is the whole point. The setting does a lot of the work: the property sits right on Ocean Road with Scarborough State Beach directly across the street, so the ocean is part of the stay from the moment you pull in. What guests praise most is the reputation the family has built, a spotless, friendly, no-surprises kind of place that people book again the next summer. As an Honorable Mention, it isn't trying to be a design statement. It's trying to be the trusted, comfortable beach base you return to, and by every account it succeeds.
What The Anchor Motel Is Known For
What The Anchor Motel is genuinely proud of is the trio it never lets slip: impeccable cleanliness, warm hospitality, and an unbeatable beach location. Guests consistently single out how spotless the rooms are and how accommodating the owners can be, even with a late arrival. Add the fact that you're steps from Scarborough State Beach with an ocean view from every porch, and you have a stay that earns its glowing repeat visitors honestly. That is precisely what an Honorable Mention celebrates: the fundamentals, done impeccably.
Amenities
- Pets Welcome
- Covered front porch with ocean view for every room
- In-room refrigerator with small freezer
- In-room climate control (heat and air conditioning)
- Free high-speed Wi-Fi
- In-room TV
- Complimentary morning coffee in the office
- Non-smoking throughout
- Family owned and operated
- Bed-and-breakfast rooms with a shared veranda and common area
- An accessible end-unit room
What Guests Love
- Directly across the street from Scarborough State Beach, with an ocean view from every porch
- Family-run and impeccably clean, with hosts guests describe as warm and accommodating
- A covered private porch on every room, made for coffee and salt air
- A loyal base of repeat guests who book again year after year
- In one of New England's most-loved beach towns, walkable to the sand
Worth Knowing
- This is a straightforward, honest beach motel, not a design destination or a resort. That simplicity is exactly the appeal.
- It's a seasonal beach stay at heart; the full set of rooms runs through the warm months, with only the bed-and-breakfast rooms kept open in the off-season.
- The gathering happens on your own porch and across the street on the sand, not in a big communal lobby or social hub.
- Rooms open to the outdoors motel-style, which regulars love for the direct beach-town feel.
The Room
Rooms here are clean, comfortable, and refreshingly simple, each with its own exterior door and a covered front porch built for morning coffee and salt air. Every room looks toward Scarborough State Beach, and the layouts range from double-bed rooms to a couple of kings set farthest from the road and a roomier end unit with the best water view. Inside you'll find the practical comforts a beach stay actually needs: a small refrigerator with a freezer, climate control, a TV, and free Wi-Fi. The word guests reach for again and again is clean, and they mean it as the highest compliment.
The Grounds
The grounds are beach-focused rather than a big communal social hub, and that suits the place. The real gathering spots are the covered porches, one per room, where guests settle in with a cup of coffee and watch the light move over the water across the street. There's a shared veranda and common area tied to the bed-and-breakfast rooms, but the main event is simple: the state's largest beach, with its boardwalk and dunes, is a short walk across Ocean Road. You come here to be near the sand, not to work a crowded lobby.
The Experience
Staying here is a Rhode Island beach-town stay in its truest form. Days are shaped by the tide and the short walk across the road to the beach, mornings by coffee on the porch, evenings by the quiet that settles over Ocean Road once the day-trippers head home. Narragansett has been called one of New England's best beach towns more than once, and from The Anchor you're positioned to enjoy exactly why: sand, salt, seafood, and a slower pace. It's an unfussy, restorative kind of trip, the sort people repeat year after year.
Details
Narragansett, RI 02882
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is The Anchor Motel pet friendly?
Yes. The Anchor Motel welcomes pets. Contact the property to confirm current pet fees and any restrictions before you book.
Does The Anchor Motel serve breakfast?
No, breakfast is not included at The Anchor Motel.
What is there to do near The Anchor Motel?
Scarborough State Beach: 0.1 miles, about a 5 minute drive, or you can walk. Point Judith Lighthouse: 3 miles, about a 5 minute drive, or you can bike there. The Towers: 1.5 miles, about a 5 minute drive, or you can bike there.
How far is The Anchor Motel from Scarborough State Beach?
Scarborough State Beach is about 0.1 miles from The Anchor Motel, close enough to walk (roughly a 5 minute drive).
How far is The Anchor Motel from Point Judith Lighthouse?
Point Judith Lighthouse is about 3 miles from The Anchor Motel, roughly a 5 minute drive or a short bike ride.
How far is The Anchor Motel from The Towers?
The Towers is about 1.5 miles from The Anchor Motel, roughly a 5 minute drive or a short bike ride.
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Things to Do Near South County RI
Point Judith Lighthouse
2.2 miles away
This brown-and-white 1857 lighthouse guards one of New England's most treacherous points, where Narragansett Bay meets the open Atlantic.
Scarborough State Beach
2.6 miles away
Rhode Island's most beloved ocean beach, a wide crescent of Atlantic surf on Ocean Road in Narragansett with a long boardwalk, an observation tower, and the stone ruins of a lost Gilded Age mansion above the waves.
The Towers
2.8 miles away
This granite arch spanning Ocean Road is the last piece of an 1880s seaside casino designed by McKim, Mead & White, all that survived a fire in 1900.
Narragansett Town Beach
3.3 miles away
This is the easy family beach in Narragansett, a broad crescent of sand right in the middle of town.
Beavertail State Park
5.4 miles away
Beavertail is where Conanicut Island runs out of land and drops onto open granite ledges at the very mouth of Narragansett Bay.
Fort Adams State Park
8.9 miles away
A real fortress to explore turns a history stop into an adventure. Fort Adams guards Newport harbor with huge granite walls, bastions, and a network of tunnels and passages that guided tours let kids walk through.
Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum
9.0 miles away
Hardly anyone realizes the face on the dollar bill was painted by a Rhode Islander born in this quiet mill hamlet.
Rosecliff Mansion
10 miles away
One of the loveliest of Newport's Gilded Age summer mansions, a gleaming white palace modeled on the Grand Trianon at Versailles and designed by Stanford White for the silver heiress and society hostess Theresa Fair Oelr...
The Breakers
10 miles away
Everyone knows Newport has mansions, but standing inside the Breakers still stops people cold.
Touro Synagogue
11 miles away
Tucked on a side street off Newports colonial core is a building most visitors walk past without knowing its weight.
The Cliff Walk
11 miles away
The Cliff Walk gives kids the best of Newport in one walk: crashing surf on one side, jaw-dropping mansions on the other, and the sense of an adventure along the edge of the sea.
Historic Wickford Village
12 miles away
Wickford is the kind of place people stumble into and cannot believe is not more famous.
North Light
13 miles away
Getting to North Light is half the fun for kids: a flat beach walk of about three quarters of a mile out to Sandy Point at the very tip of Block Island.
Smiths Castle
13 miles away
People drive right past this on Post Road without realizing they are passing one of the oldest houses in America.
Mohegan Bluffs
17 miles away
The south face of Block Island falls away in clay cliffs that stand about 150 feet above the surf, and Mohegan Bluffs is where you feel their full height.
Green Animals Topiary Garden
18 miles away
Off the usual Newport circuit, up in Portsmouth on the bay, sits a garden that delights people who did not expect to be delighted.
Rocky Point State Park
19 miles away
Rocky Point is a shoreline haunted, in the fondest way, by a lost amusement park.