Stanley Hotel Estes Park CO

The Stanley Hotel is a 138-room Georgian (Georgian architecture) hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies (Rocky Mountains). It was built by Freelan O. Stanley of Stanley Steamer fame and opened on July 4, 1909, catering to the rich and famous, including the Titanic (RMS Titanic) survivor Margaret Brown, John Philip Sousa, Theodore Roosevelt, the Emperor and Empress of Japan (Emperor of Japan), and a variety of Hollywood personalities. The Stanley Hotel also hosted Stephen King, inspiring him to write The Shining (The Shining (novel)). Contrary to information sometimes published, King was living in Boulder at the time and did not actually write the novel at the hotel. Parts of the mini-series (The Shining (TV miniseries)) version of The Shining were filmed there, although it was not used for Stanley Kubricks cinematic version. The hotel and its surrounding lands are listed on the National Register of Historic Places..

The Stanley Hotel shows the uncut R-rated version of Kubricks The Shining (The Shining (film)) on a continuous loop on Channel 42 on guest room televisions.