The Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel is a historic 140-room Georgian Revival hotel overlooking Lake Estes and the Rocky Mountains, near Longs Peak and approximately five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It functions as an operating hotel with amenities including a restaurant, spa, and bed-and-breakfast operations. In popular and folkloric terms the Stanley Hotel is widely noted for its reputation as a haunted hotel; several reference sources summarize the site as "one of America's most haunted hotels." The supplied research material does not provide incident-level details, named witnesses, specific apparition descriptions, dates, or investigator interpretations. No named supernatural entities are provided in the sourced excerpts. Because the sources emphasize the hotel's reputation rather than documented phenomena or investigatory conclusions, the site's cultural significance in these notes lies chiefly in its prominence within American haunted-hotel lore and its role in Colorado tourism, bolstered by its scenic setting near Rocky Mountain National Park.