3D print the Wigwam Motel
A free, printable model of the Wigwam Motel and its cone-shaped wigwams arranged around a square, with the nearby streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Wigwam Motel
The Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona, is Wigwam Village #6, one of the Wigwam Motels, a chain built in the 1930s and 1940s whose rooms take the form of tipis, though they are mistakenly called wigwams. The chain originally had seven locations. Chester E. Lewis, a motel owner in Arizona, built the Holbrook village in 1950 at 811 West Hopi Drive, on historic Route 66. Petrified Forest National Park, Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon are all nearby.
Its plans were based on the original by Frank A. Redford. Lewis first noticed the distinctive design while passing through Cave City in 1938, and he later bought the rights to the design and to the name "Wigwam Village" under an unusual royalty agreement tied to coin-operated radios. The layout is a square: 15 wigwams of concrete and steel line three sides, and the main office closes the fourth, with a smaller wigwam on either side of it. A gas station also stood on the complex originally.
The units are called wigwams, not rooms, and are numbered 1 to 16, skipping 13. Each is 9.8 m (32 ft) tall and 4.3 m (14 ft) across at the base, with a small bathroom behind the main room. Lewis kept it open until 1974, closing it after Interstate 40 bypassed Holbrook's downtown. After he died in 1986, his sons Clifton and Paul and his daughter Elinor renovated it and reopened it two years later. The motel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 3 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 4 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 5 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Many slim cones
- The wigwams are narrow cones with tiny pole tips. Print slowly with good cooling, and use 0.12–0.16 mm layers to keep the tips sharp.
- Small doors and tips
- Each cone carries a tiny door and a thin tip. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; a larger print size keeps them visible.
- One piece with the ground
- The Wigwam Motel is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Wigwam Motel takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Wigwam Motel is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Wigwam Motel STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Wigwam Motel grows with the print: about 3 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
