After nearly seven years of extensive planning and tenacious work, the Hotel St. Cloud is officially slated to open by Blossom weekend on May 2.
Pending a couple of final inspections, the hotel will open two of its three floors at 631 Main St. with limited availability through May.
Bookings are now available. The minimum stay is two nights unless the booking is within two weeks of the stay.
It’s anticipated that the hotel will have a 4-star status.
The hotel has 36 rooms, including several different types, such as kings, queens, double rooms and family adjoining rooms.
When the hotel had more than 50 rooms, it offered “cowboy rooms,” small rooms for someone to lay their head overnight, but with no bathroom. Today, the hotel offers its modern version of cowboy rooms with private bathrooms. The rooms are smaller than the others, but they still have the same luxury and amenities, including a queen-sized bed.
Each guest room has a private bathroom with a shower and Italian marble, robes, custom shampoos, safes, mini-refrigerators, clothing steamers, down comforters and more.
The in-room television screens will be custom-branded, welcoming guests by name and also displaying their weekend agendas.
Guests will be provided a guest app via text when checking in. It will welcome the guest, provide wi-fi information, directions to the hotel and also things to do.
“It will give you a little guidebook in your pocket for how to function in the hotel,” said Lindsay Wyss, Hotel St. Cloud manager.
The rooms are eco-friendly. Guests will insert their room card into a mechanism inside their room, which turns on the lights. When leaving the room and pulling out the card, the lights shut off automatically.
Each room is decorated with a touch of “historic flair” in mind.
“We tried to be as period-centric as we could while still updating (the rooms),” Wyss said.
Each floor will have a theme for art in the rooms and the halls centered around Culture and Entertainment; the Royal Gorge Bridge; and People and Places.
None of the art is duplicated.
“The idea is when you stay here, you are getting a walk through history,” said Stan Bullis, president of Unbridled, who purchased the hotel from the auction block in July 2018.
The hotel will offer coordination for activities and transportation, spa appointments and bike rentals, as well as valet parking and room service. The hotel also boasts a brand-new elevator.
The completion of the hotel is the third and final project of the Hotel St. Cloud’s three-phase renovation.
Fremont Public House, the new bar and lounge in the lobby of the Hotel St. Cloud, opened in late 2022 for people to socialize and enjoy an upscale drink. It is now open seven days per week.
Cañon City’s new steak and seafood restaurant, 1887 Historic Eatery, located on the main floor of the hotel, opened in February 2024. It is now open seven days per week for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Jeff Dunn of Penrose Furnishings rehabbed the original bar for Fremont Public House and did all of the hotel’s woodwork. He most recently spent several months removing multiple layers of paint from the hotel lobby’s original spindles and Newell posts, restoring them to their original grandeur.
Penrose Furnishings also custom-made all of the rooms’ closet shelves.
To learn more or to book a room, call 719-602-3469. Rooms can be booked online at until the hotel’s website has it retrofitted back in. It’s also live on Google; just click “check availability” after searching for the St. Cloud.
Other updates:
Standard Oil Coffee Co.
Situated to the east of the hotel at 701 Main St., the building will become a coffee shop and gift shop. The craft coffee shop will be highly custom and seed-oil-free. Baked goods and breakfast items will be provided by the hotel. The lawn is expected to be fenced off with yard games, and additional parking will be located behind the building. The building was built around 1930 to replace a smaller gas station constructed on the site in 1923. It is anticipated to open later this summer and will be open seven days per week.
Grand Opening
The community is invited to an official grand opening on July 26, which is the seventh anniversary of Unbridled’s purchase of the hotel. Details are still in the works and will be provided as they become available.
The Post Office
Located at 505 Macon Ave., The Post Office is also part of the Unbridled community. The main floor of Cañon City’s historic post office building has been restored and transformed into an event venue. It was leased by Fremont Center for the Arts and was on the market, but Unbridled elected to keep the building after FCA moved out. It will be used for catered events and activities for people coming to town, as well as outside events, including weddings, dinner banquets, luncheon meetings and more.
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