The Stanley Hotel
Five miles from the Rocky Mountain National Park entrance, near Estes Park, Colorado, The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel. Freelan Oscar Stanley, a co-founder of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company, developed it; it was completed on July 4, 1909, and it served as both a health retreat for those with pulmonary TB and a resort for upper-class Easterners. With magnificent views of Lake Estes, the Rockies, and Longs Peak, the hotel now has a restaurant, spa, and B&B.
The Stanley Hotel served as both a filming location for the associated 1997 TV miniseries and served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 best-selling novel The Shining and its 1980 picture version. In the 1994 movie Dumb and Dumber, it served as the fictional hotel and shooting location for Danbury of Aspen, Colorado.
The Stanley Film Festival, an independent horror film festival run by the Denver Film Society and held in early May, was held at the hotel from 2013 to 2015. The Stanley served as the location for Episode 10 of Season 15 of Bravo's cooking competition Top Chef, which was filmed in several Colorado locations. Additionally, since 2014, the Stanley Hotel has hosted an annual series of winter concerts by the indie rock band Murder by Death; the 2020 edition will be the eighth such occasion.
Location: Estes Park, Colorado, United States.
