Glenwood Springs, CO

Stay, Play and Get Scared in Colorado. The Hotel Colorado is Home to Some Permanent Guests. If you are looking for a haunting good time, The Hotel Colorado may have just what you are looking for. This grand hotel is located in Glenwood Springs and has hosted some pretty famous people over the years, and some of them are refusing to leave.

Walter Devereaux built this grand establishment in 1891. It was quite the draw for such famous guests as Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft. Al Capone and his buddies also spent time at the hotel. Devereaux is still said to be hanging out, and you can smell his cigar smoke. During WWII the hotel was used as a naval hospital. At this time a chamber maid was caught in a lovers triangle and killed by a jealous lover. Employees report hearing her screams, and the room in which she was killed is one of the most haunted in the hotel and isn't rented out, but used for storage.

While being used as a hospital, the basement was also used as a morgue. Lights have a way of going on and off with no one actually turning them on and off, and locked doors are found open.

All over the hotel, guests report lights turning off and on, knocks on doors with no one there, the TVs changing channels, and the sight of apparitions. The most common of which is a young girl.

With all this activity going on, it might be difficult to get some rest, but if you are looking for a good scare, this hotel should probably be on your list of places to visit.

The hotel is on the National Register of Historic Places. It's fully remodeled and has shops and restaurants.

If you are looking for real estate information in Western Colorado, please give me a call

Debbie Laity

GRI, SFR, REO Specialist, CNE, AHWD

Broker Associate

Cedaredge Land Company

970-589-2886

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Just pass the round about with the naked mountain climber, yes you read this right. In the center of our little town of Silt, COLORADO round about is the naked mountain climber made out of stone.

Yes the statue is all about the things you can do in COLORADO. It made national attention last fall, see this link on Denver channel , it was the talk of the whole valley.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20689868/detail.html

Back to the reason of this blog is just behind the statue is the BEST BBQ on the Western Slope of COLORADO.

Red Brick BBQ is owned by Daniel & Molly Fredrich of Silt.

As you can tell by the picture they have fun with what they do. Daniel is from Texas but he loves COLORADOand he can smoke any kind of meat and make it taste GREAT! Daniel and Molly were trained in the culinary arts in Denver, C. They have been chefs in Aspen, Denver, and Snowmass and Glenwood springs.

We have had brisket, chicken, pork, salmon and he made some sausage from his Grandpa's secret family recipe and Oh My Goodness! My husband brought it home for me and made a Sunday breakfast omelet to die for. Molly is the dessert queen and I am not kidding you she knows pastry. I took her some of our fresh farm eggs and she made chocolate-cream cheese bread pudding.

So in your travels plan to stop in Silt, COLORADO, it's just 16 miles west of Glenwood Springs, COLORADO off of the 1-70 interstate and have some good ole Texas BBQ at the Red Brick BBQ and say hi to the two wonderful people there that makes you feel right at home. Visit their website @ www.redbrickBBQ.com

Well the week started out with a Rock slide on 1-70 in the Glenwood Springs Canyon closing it for 5 days in both directions. Living in this beautiful state you never know when rock slides, mudslides or avalanches will happen. It really keeps you on your toes in a sense.

When you are driving through the canyons getting to work or a client's home it goes through your mind what could happen. Most of us are on our own mission and want to just get our tasks done for the day so when we are inconvienced by acts of nature it makes a few mad but most of us are happy no one (this time) was hurt.

I think it is really amazing to hear people say "What is Taking so LONG to clean up!

Well let me think, the boulders are 6' x 8' & 10' by 20' in size and my rake and yard equipment just can't do this task!

Besides there is some engineering to work out for removal. And in the process of cleanup a crew goes up the mountainside to see if more boulders have come loose from the weather warming up and the ground moisture releasing the rocks. GO Figure! That really can't happen in a hour or two.

Why are we so impatient in today's world?

May this week start out better!!

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