The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa's annual Festival of Lights celebration lit up with a bang on Saturday, Nov. 23. Celebratory fireworks accompanied the electric surge of more than 10 million Christmas ...

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Linda and Joe Rodriguez of Fontana take photos of Christmas lights at the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in Riverside in 2021. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) The Mission Inn Museum could ...

I mention the City of Riverside in my travel columns from time to time. And there is a good reason for this: I was born and raised there. I resided in the city bordering the Santa Ana River — where it ...

In 1992, the Mission Inn had been surrounded by chain-link fencing for seven years. What was supposed to have been a two-year renovation had dragged on. The owner went bankrupt. The lender completed ...

CALIFORNIA HAS ITS CASTLES, including the colorful and colossal structure that has graced its Riverside location in three different centuries. We're rhapsodizing about the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, of ...

People know the Mission Inn for its fantasyland look evoking California missions and European castles. So why is there an area reminiscent of a pagoda, complete with a towering Buddha? Like the 951’s ...

RIVERSIDE — The fireworks display that kicks off the famous Festival of Lights holiday extravaganza at Riverside’s Mission Inn likely sparked a small blaze Friday atop the historic structure’s roof, ...

Mission Inn Hotel & Spa owners Duane and Kelly Roberts have spent $48.5 million to buy an “oceanfront villa” in Palm Beach, Florida that sounds as luxurious as their famous Riverside hotel. The Wall ...