Hotels have had a colorful never ending string of visitors including: President Teddy Roosevelt, Doc Holiday, 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.
Best know for being in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Doc Holiday was a Dentist, Gambler, and a World Traveler who loved the soothing waters of the Yampa Spa.
Doc Holiday stayed at several hotels in and even attended Strawberry Days as the rumor goes.
Doc Holiday died in one of the hotel rooms in Springs. The Hotel, which stood where the Summit Canyon Mountaineering Building stands today on 8th & Grand burned down several years later. In the movies they show him die in a hospital or sanitarium but this is not the case. Holiday died from Tuberculosis, this fact they always got right.
Doc Holiday is buried on the hill overlooking the town. From town you can see the American Flag that stands at Doc Holiday’s graveside, about halfway up the hill to the east.
While some companies say they have Discount Hotels, they still don’t have the information on this small town and the Hot Springs Pool you get from locals like us. For the best deals on Hotels in Springs just check out our lodging information.
This small sleepy town is transformed in late June with the kickoff of Strawberry Days.
This 100 plus year old festival attracts people from around the world. Strawberry Days is without a doubt the high point of summer.
Springs Hotel Reservations are a must during Strawberry Days.
Hotel rooms in Springs go at a premium price over Strawberry Days and thru out the summer season at most of the hotels. So, we recommend making your Springs reservations early for this time of year.
In the winter you will find lodging at a much more reasonable price.
Hotels in run specials in the winter for the price minded. You will find that in the summer even Hotel prices can be far more expensive in the summer then you are expecting. And you may find the Hot Springs Pool more crowded the you like. The Hot Springs Pool has a set of water slides that are open most of the time during the summer.
We boast at being the first town in the U.S. to go fully electric. If this is true or not we don’t know but we do have a great power source with the Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers meeting right in the middle of town.