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What Happened to River Rock Inn After Hotel Hell? (Milford, PA)

Hotel Hell, Season 1 Milford, Pennsylvania

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, River Rock Inn has closed — confirmed via pikecountycourier.com, July 28, 2015.

What the source shows: News coverage (Pike County Courier, Paulton.co.za) and a permanently-closed Yelp listing show the featured River Rock Inn changed hands and reverted to its pre-show name after 2012 and no longer operates under the name featured on Hotel Hell. How we decide a status →

What happened after Hotel Hell?

River Rock Inn and Restaurant in Milford, Pennsylvania, was the property featured in Hotel Hell's fifth episode, which aired 2012-09-03, according to the episode database TVmaze. The Pike County Courier reported on 2014-04-03 that the River Rock Inn and Restaurant had reopened for the spring season under owner Ken Pisciotta, indicating the business operated on a seasonal schedule in the years after the Hotel Hell visit. According to the outlet Paulton.co.za, in coverage of why Pisciotta had to sell the River Rock Inn back to its original owners, the property changed hands again after financial difficulties.

The Pike County Courier subsequently reported on 2015-07-28 that the property had reopened under its earlier name, the Laurel Villa Country Inn & Restaurant, following the ownership reversion. A Yelp listing for the address, 210 2nd St, Milford, PA, still filed under the River Rock Inn name, was marked permanently closed as of an August 2026 site crawl. Location data compiled for this record initially matched the search term 'River Rock Inn' to an unrelated, similarly named property, River Rock Inn Utah, in Green River, Utah; that match was discarded here as incorrect, and the address and coordinates above instead reflect the actual Milford, Pennsylvania property via a corrected geocode.

The episode Hotel Hell, Season 1

Episode 5
Aired
What was featured: Gordon Ramsay's intervention at a struggling riverside Pennsylvania inn and restaurant

Also in Season 1 Hotel Hell

Season 1: 1 of 5 still open

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Sources we checked 5 references

  1. tvmaze.com https://tvmaze.com/episodes/204558/hotel-hell-1x05-river-rock-inn
  2. pikecountycourier.com https://www.pikecountycourier.com/news/local-news/milfords-river-rock-inn-and-restaurant-re-opens-for-spring-season-XRPC20140403140409976
  3. paulton.co.za https://paulton.co.za/hotel-hell-why-ken-pisciotta-had-to-sell-river-rock-inn-back-to-its-original-owners/
  4. pikecountycourier.com https://www.pikecountycourier.com/news/local-news/laurel-villa-country-inn-restaurant-re-opens-KWPC20150728150729958
  5. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/river-rock-inn-milford
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