Annie's Trip: Hotel Colorado!

Annie and I were lucky enough to stay at the luxurious Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs. This hotel has an alluring past, as many former Presidents (Taft & Roosevelt) and old west celebrities and gangsters (Doc Holliday, Unsinkable Molly Brown, & Diamond Jack Alterie) stayed at the hotel to hunt, gamble and, of course, bathe in the hot springs. In fact, the world's most irresistible toy, the teddy bear, received its birth at Hotel Colorado. The hotel's maids gave Theodore Roosevelt a stuffed bear to cheer him up after an unsuccessful day of bear hunting. His daughter Alyce admired it saying, "I will call it Teddy." During WWII, the hotel was purchased by the government and made into a naval hospital for 3 years. It's rumored that the basement, where the morgue was located, is haunted. Unfortunately, Annie and I did NOT have a ghostly encounter while getting a massage in the hotel's basement spa, but it was worth it anyway.