Welcome to the home of the World Famous Hot Springs Pool. The worlds largest naturally heated outdoor swimming pool.The Hot Springs Pool also has a great set of water slides that are open most of the time during the summer.
This town is full of history.
Once known as Defiance Colorado, the name was changed to sound more hospitable. It was renamed after the hometown of the mayors wife.
Hotels have had a colorful never ending string of visitors including: President Teddy Roosevelt, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, President Taft, Buffalo Bill, Molly Brown, Al Capone and to many more to mention.
The Roaring Fork Valley was a favorite destination of President Teddy Roosevelt, making the Hotel Colorado his Western Whitehouse. Teddy Roosevelt loved bear hunting in Western Colorado.
Hotel Colorado was also the birth place of the Teddy-Bear named after Teddy Roosevelt, while bear hunting in the area.
The original Teddy Bear is rumored to have been made by the maids at the Hotel Colorado.