America's Best Franchising (abestfranchise.com) is an hotel franchise group with its corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The hotel group's franchises include 3 Palms Hotels and Suites, Budgetel Inns and Suites, Country Hearth Inns and Suites and Vagabond Inns. America's Best Inns and Suites is eco-conscious and has a policy of EcoRooms in its hotel guest rooms, which feature a number of eco-products and a recycle bin in each room. The company, which has hotels in 30 states, supports franchisees with such services as central reservations, local and national advertising, sales support and training.
America's Best Inn Burns Hotel (americasbestinnburns.com) is located on Interstate 20 just to the southwest of the city center. Guest rooms are nonsmoking and have the usual amenities including an in-room whirlpool tub, while the hotel itself offers an indoor pool, sauna and hot tub. A small percentage of the guest rooms are EcoRooms. Being so close to the center of the city, the hotel is within five minutes' drive of all of the local restaurants and fast food outlets. Nearby restaurants include Linda's Elk Horn, Meat Hook, El Toreo and Hilander.
Burns is located at the edge of an area of outstanding and stark natural beauty. The mountains to the north of Burns are the remains of a once-active volcanic area, and the Harney Basin to the south is a volcanic ash plain. Downtown's Harney County Historical Museum features many of the town's roots with the old West. You'll find arrow heads, artifacts, fossils, thunder eggs, handmade quilts and early ranching photographs.
Many of the local areas of attraction close to Burns relate to the volcanic nature of the terrain. About 55 miles to the south of town is an area known as Diamond Craters, which contains ropy lava flows, domes, craters and a spring fed lake, Malheur Maar. Just 30 miles south of Burns is the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, an 185,000-acre refuge that is home to more than 250 species of birds. On a good day in spring, you can be lucky enough to catch sight of more than 100 of these species, which include trumpeter swans, great horned owls, sandhill cranes and egrets.
