Photo courtesy of the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort Association

• Perhaps the most fun thing to do is get here by train! Yes, Amtrak stops right outside our front door. Make sure you take time to visit the historic Railroad Museum in the depot. We’ve also got a Frontier Historical Museum!
• Bring your bikes! Or you can rent them here. There are miles and miles of bike trails, both paved and unpaved that lead everywhere from here.
• Canoeing, Kayaking and Rafting are king. We have a waterpark and two pretty feisty rivers converge here.
• Disc Golf is pretty trendy and we’ve got a great “course” near bye at the Roaring Fork Disc Golf Club.
• Golf, golf and more golf. Here, there and all around us. You could stay two weeks and never play the same course within an hour’s drive of the hotel. There’s a great mini-golf in town too!
• Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park beckons you to throw down your technology and get outside for a rollicking good time that include caving and very adventurous thrill rides.
• The Hot Springs Pool is one of the top reasons many people come back again and again. It is the largest of its kind in the world! We have a great package that includes pool passes for your convenience.
• Hiking is everywhere. From the valley to the mountaintops, this is, after all, the heart of the Rockies!
• Horseback riding is offered up at Sunlight Mountain during the summer months.
• Spa treatments abound with our hot springs culture here. The perfect spa getaway destination!
• Ziplines! Sure, we said, A to Z, right? The zipline here goes across the mighty Colorado River!
• Shopping? Our town is bursting at the seams with small boutique shops run by real people! If that’s not enough, you will find Vail and Aspen within a short drive.
• Dining! We are pretty proud of our own Brewpub but there are dozens of dining choices our front desk staff will be happy to tell you about.

You don’t even have to leave the hotel if you don’t want to. Consider a penthouse suite with rooftop hot tub. Or our one of a kind St James Suite, which is actually a cute craftsman cottage near to the hotel makes a perfect family HQ for your visit with its own backyard privacy. No matter what gets your juices flowing, the activities abound here. But, its o.k. to just come up here and relax too. If that is what you want to do!

• Take one part real town, nestled along the banks of the mighty Colorado River, complete with train station if you’d like to really pour on the sugar, enroute!
• Add an intimate boutique hotel with specialty rooms and suites designed for couples total relaxation and rejuvenation. Some even have a hot tub!
• Sprinkle with abandon, equal parts of adventure, recreation and excitement found at all points of the compass.
• Top with an evening soak in the worlds largest hot springs pool and a candlelit dinner all within walking distance of each other.
• Repeat as necessary

Bake this recipe of love a-la-carte or let us package it up for you with three specials that are sure to please. Our “Room with a Brew” features hot springs pool passes and craft beer at our own brewpub. “A River Runs Through It” features a warm river rock massage at Spa of the Rockies. “Sweet Romance” features custom cupcakes and flowers patiently awaiting your arrival.

And that’s just the start. When you arrive, you will find friendly, knowledgable locals on staff who, like a fountain of information. freely impart info on just about any query you have regarding the area. We aim to please and we strive to make your Colorado couples getaways better than any experience you’ve had in the state!

You can add romance to any room we offer with our romance package. It includes cupcakes and flowers that we include with our exceptionally romantic rooms. With Valentine’s Day falling on a Tuesday this year, we expect romance to be in the air starting around February 10th and wistfully running all the way through February 19th. But rest assured, if you can’t make it here for the traditional valentine period of the year, our Romance Package is available any time the love bug strikes you!

We have a variety of special rooms and suites for you to choose from that include two rooftop gems we call, “The Cupola” and “The Penthouse”. Or go for total privacy at our one-of-a-kind, St James Suite. We also suggest our Colorado rooms or Queen View rooms. You can’t go wrong with any of these choices. You’ll find cozy antique furnishings, quilts and special touches the “cookie-cutter” hotels just can’t offer! Make your reservation online or call us toll free – 800-826-8820.

Did we mention, there is the world’s largest hot springs pool here? It’s the best in the Winter and ready to soothe your bones after a long day going down hill. You will also find a real town with all the goods and services a visitor could want. From our downtown hotel, you can walk to great restaurants and a plethora of boutiques and shops. You have to look very hard to find a chain store!

People from Colorado have known about this for years. Some of them claim they get to budget at least one extra trip to the mountains each year because of the money they save staying at Glenwood Springs while enjoying all the great skiing that Colorado has to offer.

It took technology, though, to fully out this secret. One of the ski industry’s big players has made it possible for our local Chamber of Commerce to combine our hotel rooms at the Hotel Denver with a variety of ski resort lift tickets at reduced pricing. You can even add ski or snowboard equipment rentals and a wide variety of activities like a spa package or a caverns tour!

The closest ski area to Glenwood Springs is our own beloved Sunlight Mountain, minutes away. The four diverse mountains that comprise Aspen-Snowmass are about 45 minutes away and Vail-Beaver Creek a bit further. To take advantage of this exclusive offer you have to make reservations online here or call toll free 866-630-5160

Here at The Hotel Denver, we have embraced this trend in a grand way. We take pride in having a historic hotel that we have renovated into “comfort lodging.” Choosing a room to stay in here is half the fun of visiting! The rooms at our Glenwood Springs hotel are far from the ordinary.

Perhaps, the most unique accommodation at our hotel is The Cupola.  Situated on two levels of the third and fourth floors of the hotel, The Cupola offers wood floors throughout, a roof top hot tub, kitchen, exceptionally comfortable living room and views to the north, east and west.  The Cupola has over 1,000 square feet of living space and sleeps up to four people!

Unfortunately, the Cupola is no longer a secret. So, you need to plan in advance to reserve this suite. Like all our rooms, you will find cozy quilts, quirky antique furnishings and Wifi. This suite also happens to have three televisions! It is the perfect accommodations for a small family and the most special hotel room in Glenwood Springs for a romantic interlude.

Here is how it works: Reserve any room in our hotel that you wish. For every night you stay we give you two, full day lift tickets at Sunlight Mountain and two, Glenwood Hot Springs Pool passes. Come for one, two or more nights and kick back at our mellow Colorado town. Put in a full day of skiing or snowboarding. Then, head over to the pool for the most unique aprés ski experience in the world!

If you have more people in your travel party than two, let our reservations department know and they will provide as many lift tickets and pool passes at a discount that you need.

“This is such a great deal,” Hotel Manager, Scott Olpin, says, “we see some people two, three even four times in a season, taking advantage of the Ski, Swim, Stay package here!”

Tired of lift lines, crowded parking lots and packed ski runs? We invite you to experience something completely different this ski season. Call our reservations line or find the package at our online reservations.

The St James Suite is 920 square feet and can sleep up to four people. It features private, off-street parking behind the house and a fenced-in back yard that is all yours. We put a hot tub on the patio too!

Inside, you will find hardwood floors throughout. You will find two queen beds and a sofa sleeper. There are two bathrooms, one of which has a shower. The furnishings are “country classic,” plus there is a mini-fridge and microwave oven.

Once you step outside the door your are only a few steps to the rest of the downtown core with shopping and dining options of every kind. The downtown shopping is a very eclectic collection of gift boutiques and funky family owned shops. The dining ranges from our own award-winning brew pub to fancy fine dining establishments.

If you are looking for something really private and preferably funky, let us reserve the St James Suite for your next visit to Glenwood Springs or browse our other rooms and suite types.

This year they won a gold medal for one of our favorites; “Storm King Dunkel Lager”, in the European Style Dunkel category. This same recipe won a silver medal back in 2006, so this is not some flash in the copper kettle!

Great American Beer Festival competition winners were selected by an international panel of 169 expert judges in 83 categories, with a field of 3,930 beers from 526 breweries. The Great American Beer Festival is the largest national beer competition in the United States and is held every year in Denver. Glenwood Canyon previously won gold medals in 2009 for “Cardiff Double Brown” and in 2010 for “Carbonator Doppelbock”. The brewers are Ken Jones, Chip Holland and Chuck Campagna, pictured above with GABF founder, Charlie Papazian.

Storm King Dunkel Lager will be on tap at the brewery in December, so you will be able to judge it for yourself. In addition to award-winning beers, the brew pub has consistently won local favorite awards through the years, including Best Glenwood Springs Family Restaurant, Best Lunch, Best Place to Socialize… you get the picture! This is a happening place who’s beers have also been awarded medals at world competitions too!

By 1888, the natural hot springs found here got “civilized” when a pool was created. It soon became world renowned as the “spa of the rockies,” attracting the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, movie stars and aristocrats from all around the world.

Today, it is an iconic destination in the Rocky Mountain west. It’s also a very convenient stop on a Eastbound or Westbound road trip, as Interstate 80 bisects the town. Understanding that many of you are coming our way to experience this wonder of the world, we have created a Hot Springs Pool Package, we call “A Room with a Brew.” It includes lodging in our historic hotel and two pool passes, plus a $20 gift card for food and beverages at our Brew Pub!

You can come by train or car. The Amtrak stop is close bye and the pool itself is a very short walk over the bridge adjacent to our hotel. Boutique shopping and a variety of restaurants are too!

At the higher altitudes this means the display can begin soon after Labor Day. The valleys will take a little longer to get into gear. But most years, the action is fully underway towards the end of the month of September.

Want to ensure you get the best viewing? Give us a call or drop us an email asking how the colors are coming along. If you can be a little flexible with your planning, you can dash up here for a night or two getaway and see the entire show! If you are coming up from Denver, you will, of course, drive over the Continental Divide where the Aspen leaf colors will happen earlier than if you are coming over from Grand Junction.

We think the most special fall color treat is when the aspens are going off in the valley along with the willow and maple “bushes” along the creek beds. It is an explosion of reds and yellows not to be missed.

You will like Fall here too, because it is quieter than the Summer and the days are warm while the nights are chilly. That’s when a good ale from the Brew Pub and some of their great soups or stews highlight a great day of activities, like hiking, biking, kayaking or golfing in our valley. This leaves you just one more decision… which one of our unique rooms will you choose for this visit?