An auction is scheduled for next Monday for a well-known mountain lodge that was built in 1914 in Estes Park, Colorado.
The Crags Lodge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located on the north slope of Prospect Mountain at 300 E. Riverside Drive and includes up to 33 rooms in a three-story structure built in the chalet style.
In the original application papers for the National Register of Historic Places designation, it was noted that “clapboard covers the first story and walk-out basement level, while all the upper floors are sided in wood shingles.”
Through the decades the lodge has been expanded and also subject to periodic renovations.
Overlooking the Rocky Mountain National Park, Crags Lodge, often described as a “cabin retreat,” also includes an outdoor swimming pool, hot tub, and wood furnishings.
Sitting on a four-acre site, the original woodwork and stone fireplaces of the lodge, makes it seem “as though you are stepping back into history as you enter the lodge,” a reporter for the Fence Post newspaper of Bellevue, Colorado has written.
The auction for the lodge, to be handled by the Avison Young Hotel Group, has a listed starting bid of $1.3 million.
October 6, 2025
By Garry Boulard
Photo courtesy of Loopnet
