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Looking for awesome place to stay near Rocky Mountain Park-any suggestions?
9-18-10 | self

Posted on 09/18/2010 6:34:16 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer

Im looking for a really great place to stay near Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park...

Near a river, beautiful views...

Anyone been there?


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KEYWORDS: colorado; estespark; rockymountains; travel; vacation
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Camp out.


21 posted on 09/18/2010 6:50:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Former MSM Viewer

There’s great accomodations on the west side, too. Grand Lake, Lake Granby, all the way to and including Winter Park. I’d suggest the lodges and resorts around Grand Lake. (Someone mentioned the Stanley. Probably the worst place I’ve ever stayed.)


22 posted on 09/18/2010 6:52:04 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (I can see November from my window...)
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To: Former MSM Viewer
If you're going to stay in Estes Park, check out this website and rent a house.

VRBO

I rented a place in Estes Park a year ago through the site and it worked out great.

23 posted on 09/18/2010 6:56:55 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Estes Park. Google it and you’ll find all kinds of great places. I was there two weeks ago and drove through the park to Grand Lake. The were doing some road work but it should be finished by now. Bring a jacket.


24 posted on 09/18/2010 6:58:20 PM PDT by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: Ditter

The Stanley Hotel is where “The Shining” was filmed. IIRC. Beautiful hotel, I’ve stayed there. The movie was really spooky and intense.


25 posted on 09/18/2010 7:00:02 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Estes Park is beautiful, but quite spendy. We personally like Cripple Creek.


26 posted on 09/18/2010 7:01:36 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: Former MSM Viewer

The Stanley Hotel in Estes, very luxurious. Also was the model for the hotel in “The Shining”...Redrum!!


27 posted on 09/18/2010 7:04:35 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Rushmore Rocks; cripplecreek

ping


28 posted on 09/18/2010 7:08:02 PM PDT by magslinger ('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I don’t know, but I always ask the homeless people. They know.


29 posted on 09/18/2010 7:10:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer; Ditter

The Stanley Hotel, in Estes was fantastic. We stayed there in 2008, 4th floor room right near the room that is haunted. The movie The Shining, with Jack Nicholson, was filmed there and they have ghost tours every night.
An old hotel that has been updated, lovely grounds, great staff, dining room is wonderful, bar is fun. We had a room in the main hotel, small, no air conditioning, but just so much fun.The lobby is gorgeous and the porch in the front is large, with rocking chairs and serves drinks.The grounds are beautiful.
There are more updated extensions to the hotel that are more modern.
You can walk into Estes Park downtown, shop at great little stores, have breakfast if you wish at a pancake restaurant. Bring your camera everywhere you go, you will have elk right near you everywhere.


30 posted on 09/18/2010 7:14:42 PM PDT by mojo114 (On to November.)
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To: Non-Sequitur; Former MSM Viewer

VRBO is a great suggestion.


31 posted on 09/18/2010 7:15:40 PM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( T.G., global warming denier.)
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To: Rushmore Rocks

We stopped at The Stanley Hotel and had lunch there. Yes it was nice. The food was excellent and the shops were nice. We were just passing through, I’d like to stay there sometime.


32 posted on 09/18/2010 7:16:02 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Former MSM Viewer

There are some nice places to stay in Stockholm. Wouldn’t you rather go there?


33 posted on 09/18/2010 7:19:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: seeker41

ditto estes park!


34 posted on 09/18/2010 7:20:38 PM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: frankenMonkey

Sorry you had a bad experience at The Stanley. What happened?


35 posted on 09/18/2010 7:41:34 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Look up YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park. Should be much more reasonable than staying “in town.”


36 posted on 09/18/2010 7:47:20 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Ditter

“If you want a very classy place check out The Stanley Hotel Estes Park Co. Built 1909, very fine old hotel. Not cheap but very luxurious.”

This is the hotel that inspired Stephen King’s “The Shining”.


37 posted on 09/18/2010 7:47:40 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from the Right Stuff!)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

I hear that area is famous for Art Deco...

...that’s Art and Sally Deco...they have a modestly successful “Indian” “art” sooveneer stand just off the road by their doublewide that sits between an abandoned gold mine and a Native American burial ground.

Art was acquitted just last year of those antiquities robbing charges so it’s OK to use a credit card there again...


38 posted on 09/18/2010 7:58:26 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Now what kind of a geroo are you anyway?)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

There are literally hundreds of cabins and motels in the Big Thompson River Canyon below Estes Park. Everything you want.


39 posted on 09/18/2010 8:04:12 PM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

You could stay in Nederland...just south of Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park. Small old mining town. Beautiful place. Indian Peaks wilderness area is right there. Used to do some backpacking around there.

http://www.nederlandchamber.org/index.html


40 posted on 09/18/2010 8:14:30 PM PDT by wyokostur
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