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Photograph of The Stanley Hotel
Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stanley Hotel District (Stanley Power Plant Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Georgian Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. The hotel is considered one of America's most haunted hotels.”

Wikipedia article The Stanley Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Fish Hatchery Rd. at Fall R., Estes Park, 80517
  • When was it listed? April 1998
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Estes Park
  • Architectural style. German Gothic
  • Architect. Freelan Oscar Stanley
  • National Register reference number. 98000321 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Stanley Hotel District (Stanley Power Plant Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,723 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined131
Natural54
Recreation and ceremony32
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFALL RIVER FIRE
8 September 2018Naturalunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEstes Valley Fire Protection DistrictN/A

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stanley Hotel District (Stanley Power Plant Boundary Increase): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Estes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Larimer County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estes Park, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 13 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed a 35-yr old man and seriously injured his wife and young daughter. The family was hiking near the Gore Range Overlook along Trail Ridge Road when the thunderstorm developed, at an elevation of 11,700 feet.
August 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed one hiker and injured two others, while they were hiking a remote drainage in Rocky Mountain National Park.
August 1998LightningEstes Park6 hurtSix people received minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby scenic overlook atop Trail Ridge Road. The charge apparently travelled across the ground and shocked the group.
October 2000LightningEstes Park2 hurtTwo people were injured when they were struck by lightning at the Forest Canyon Overlook, at nearly 12,000 feet elevation along Trail Ridge Road. The thunderstorm formed rapidly overhead. One of the victims was badly burned, the other had no visible injuries.
August 2019LightningEstes Park1 hurtA hiker was seriously injured by lightning while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.
July 2011LightningEstes Park$5,000Lightning sparked three fires.
July 2022HailEstes Park-Torrential hail and rain occurred in the town of Estes Park. The hail piled up to a foot deep and snowplows were called in to remove it.
June 2021Heavy RainEstes Park-Moderate to heavy rainfall associated with a thunderstorm produced minor flooding along Trail Ridge Road.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Estes Park-A weak tornado touched down briefly near Bear Lake with no observable damage.
September 2013Flash FloodEstes Park-Heavy rain caused five very small dams in the Big Elk Meadows area to fail. As a result, a family became trapped when a county road was washed out and floodwaters damaged their home. Road closures included: U.S. 34 east/west, between Loveland and Estes Park; CO14 east/west, between Walden and Ted's Place. Larimer County Roads 27E, 25E, 52E and 54E were all closed near La Porte due to flash flooding. Several roads were also washed out southwest of Loveland and north of Fort Collins.
June 2023HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2016HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2010HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2007HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2006HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2005HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2004HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1999HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fall River Entrance Historic District0.5 miles2018
Cascade Cottages0.7 miles2020
Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building2.8 miles2001
MacGregor Ranch2.9 miles1989
Rocky Mountain National Park Utility Area Historic District2.9 miles1982
Snogo Snow Plow3.0 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000321 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer CountyAll 110 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.