The Stanley Hotel. This is a 1909 structure built by F. O. Stanley as a place for he and his friends to get together for the summer. F. O. is of the Stanley Steamer car fame.
This is also where Stephen King stayed and acquired his inspiration for the book "The Shining". The original movie with Jack Nicholson wasn't filmed here, but King bought back the rights to the film from Stanley Kubrick and filmed the TV Mini Series of "The Shining" here.
This is the door to the famous room 217. You'll need to watch the movie to understand.
But it is said that this room and some others have had some other worldly things going on in them.
We then made our way back up the mountain to the Alpine Visitors Center on Trail Ridge Road. The views are just indescribable.
Not much air up here at 12,000+ feet above sea level. Hiking takes on a whole new meaning.
Up in the tundra where nothing seems to grow, there is amazing beauty however small.
Oh, and did I mention, there is still a little snow up here in the middle of June!
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