An expert on America’s National Park lodges suggests driving from Colorado to Montana, through four parks, each with its historic hotels.


S Tourists look at Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. EnCompassMag.com By Christine Barnes


Stephen King wrote his paranormal murder novel The Shining after a stay at The Stanley Hotel (See Pin 1 on p. 34), but today the Colonial Revival hotel is anything but creepy. Step through the beveled glass doors into the exquisitely appointed lobby, and your only wish may be that tourists circa 2013 dressed as elegantly as they did in 1909, the year the hotel opened. Restored over the past two


decades, The Stanley is a statement to the traveling world: The surround- ing Rocky Mountains may be rug- ged, but your stay at this hotel will be anything but that. Built by F.O. Stanley, of Stanley


Steamer automobile fame, the hotel overlooks Estes Park, gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. The hotel may be a National Historic Landmark, but indulges


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