Colorado's Historic Hotels by Alexandra Walker Clark

Author:Alexandra Walker Clark
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

The original Conejos River Guest Ranch log house, circa 1930s. The original main house still survives and has been substantially added to over the years.

The original log lodge, still in use, has been expanded as the property changed hands over the years, and today cabins are also available. Present owners are Leonard and Kathy Romero, and the ranch foreman is Ms. Shorty Fry.

DEPOT HOTEL & RESTAURANT: This hotel was built sometime before the 1880s and faced the railroad tracks.

GERMANIA HOTEL: This hotel was built before 1904.

PALACE HOTEL: Built before 1904 at 429 Main Street, this hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

La Jara

The town of La Jara, named for a local creek, is located in the central San Luis Valley. Its mostly Hispanic population descends from settlers who came to the area in the early 1850s to settle on the Sangre de Cristo and Conejos Land Grants. It is still primarily a ranching and farming area.

BLAKE HOTEL: This hotel was built before 1904.

GRANDE HOTEL: Built before 1904, this hotel was operated by Mrs. L. Seyfer in 1904.

ORMOND HOTEL: Built before 1904, this hotel was operated by Mrs. E.A. Brown in 1904.

Platoro

Platoro, at ninety-nine hundred feet in elevation, is in the Rio Grande National Forest, surrounded by the San Juan Wilderness. The town’s name was derived from the two Spanish words “plata” and “oro” (silver and gold), and it was founded in the 1880s as a mining town. By 1882, the serious lack of transportation began to adversely affect the town. Although the mines were still productive, the town was too isolated to prosper.

Platoro was also plagued by repeated flooding of the Conejos River. In recent years, a dam was built to create the highest man-made reservoir in North America, the Platoro Reservoir at 10,034 feet, two miles above the town. Today, Platoro has become a quiet resort community, dedicated to fishing.

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