This roadside wonder is one of those celebrated spots, though perhaps we should say it might be California's ultimate ...

The Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo’s landmark flushed pink hotel, has become the victim of serial theft of its welcome rug. However, in the latest chapter, the rug has been returned.

Also, lots and lots of pink. Featuring over 100 rooms, the Madonna Inn is an eccentric mix of Disneyland, Hearst Castle and ...

Around 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, two college-aged young men wearing nondescript black hoodies and medical masks were seen snatching the Madonna Inn welcome rug from the entry way of the hotel’s ...

Located on a hill at the southern end of town, near its closest competitor, the casual, more normal Apple Farm Inn, and visible from U.S. Highway 101—rising like some undulating Dr. Seuss ...

thieves — possibly Cal Poly students — stole the Madonna Inn’s iconic welcome mat that graces the entrance to a restaurant at San Luis Obispo’s landmark hotel. Due to the random and weird ...

A rug that was stolen from the Madonna Inn in a repeat crime over two weeks ago was returned to the hotel on Monday — but the criminal is still unknown. The welcome rug was taken from the entry ...

And so it is: The ultra-pink floral pattern is well-known to Madonna Inn mavens and loved by countless travelers, the people who encounter the carpet upon stepping into the hotel's public areas.