Mission San Antonio de Padua
End of Mission Road, Jolon
385-4478, www.missionsanantonio.net
The tour of most lodges doesn’t end with the guest asking the front desk, “What do you mean you’re leaving?” But so it goes at the mission in deep South County, where dorm-style rooms share community bathrooms and a big dining room/kitchen, and visitors have the beautiful mission all to themselves come early evening, including the sanctuaries that are the central garden, the surrounding grounds and the church itself. Better yet, the mission works as a great jumping-off point for Indians National Park and the back-side entrance to Arroyo Seco River