DUNTON HOT SPRINGS

Colorado

#4 Best Food Lovers Hotel in America by Bon Appetit - #1 All-Inclusive in the USA - #6 All-Inclusive in the World
2012 Tripadvisor "Travelers' Choice Award" - 2013 Tripadvisor "Award of Excellence"

Welcome to Dunton Hot Springs & Cresto Ranch

We have brought a beautiful, historic corner of Colorado back to life. Just across the mountain from Telluride, Dunton Hot Springs Resort is a romantic ghost town, set in an extraordinary alpine valley. Cresto Ranch is its newest addition just 4 miles downriver and hosts 8 luxury tents with en-suite bathrooms. Our resorts offer a variety of day and overnight packages, and the entire town or ranch can be rented exclusively for corporate retreats, family reunions and weddings.

Phone: (970) 882 4800
Toll free: (877) 228 4674
info@blabladuntonhotsprings.com

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How has Dunton Hot Springs Resort near Telluride Suited its Guests? What Kinds of Guests Will be Comfortable at This Luxury Colorado Resort.

Exclusive Mountain Resorts in USA - Telluride

Dunton has been valuable to many of its guests as one of the exclusive mountain resort - USA, Telluride. Here, the experience is of truly "getting away from it all" in the saw-toothed San Juans in unspoiled landscapes that resonate with the soul - the soul of the San Juan mountains. At this exclusive resort in the mountains, life can be relaxed, laid back, yet luxurious with a crafted rustic sensibility. As should be the case at one of the Telluride Exclusive Mountain Resorts in the USA.

Rockies - Exclusive Mountain Resorts in USA

Memorable moments in one of the Rockies' exclusive mountain resorts. An example is this: fly fishing along the west fork of the Dolores in the San Juans and doing this just a couple hundred yards from a luxury 5 star cabin off in the middle of nowhere. Wild flowers all around. No-one in sight or about to be. Dinner in the Saloon - at a communal table with conversations that might last a week - all in this Rockies exclusive mountain resort in the USA.

Mountains - Exclusive Resorts - Islands in the Mountains - Telluride

Here at Dunton Hot Springs, we are not only one of the exclusive Telluride resorts, we are an exclusive island in the mountains. Dunton is a private historic western town; the whole town, all twelve cabins, saloon, bath house spa, teepee - is a resort that can be one of our guests' exclusive Telluride retreats. Dunton's guests choose mountain resorts that are exclusive, are rare. Here, ringed by the San Juans, we are the equal of exclusive islands but set in the mountains rather than the sea.

Exclusive Resorts - Rockies, Colorado Mountains

Here is a moment of inspiration at one of the exclusive resorts in the Rockies of Colorado: dawn light, a bushy fox trotting in the meadow in front of our 5 star log cabin. She stops and looks right at us - us hidden behind glass, yet she knows we are here, are watching. Usually at exclusive resorts in the Rockies of Colorado, you just get trees and a slope. Not here, here are the animals. Here there is a visual comfort of a luxury log cabin retreat at this comfortably exclusive resort in the San Juans- in the Rockies.

Exclusive Vacations in the Mountains

During exclusive vacations in the mountains, languishing in a private hot spring that dates back to the 1870s and is now a luxury five star authentic yet hardly rustic experience. The hot spring - one of nine (yes, nine hot springs) at this spot where the guests are on exclusive vacations in the mountains.

Take a look at one five star luxury log cabin - the Well House. It has its own inbuilt hot spring. Yes, I did say "inbuilt hot spring". Here on a Rockies mountain exclusive vacation, a bath tub is not a massive porcelain affair, but rather a six foot-long raised rectangular carved, polished sandstone tub. Opening the tap, hot springs mineral water, about 102°, comes out; the guest lies back, the hewn logs wrap the view. The stone, the age of the place, its spirit, its details - an original native American weaving, native pottery, hewn logs - this is peace in the mountains; this is one those exclusive mountain vacations. Peace, visual comfort, a hot spring inside the cabin. This is exclusive luxury.

Exclusive Mountain Vacations

Yes, Dunton is a "ghost town" and yes, it is as well the site of exclusive mountain vacations. The resort, actually a private "town" was established in 1885 as the camp for the nearby Emma Mine in the San Juan Range of the Colorado Rockies. This is Dunton Hot Springs - named for Horatio Dunton, who owned the Emma mine. And yes, there are hot springs right here. When mining played out, the town became a "ghost", then a cattle ranch, and now it is Dunton Hot Springs resort - the site of exclusive mountain vacations near Telluride.

Exclusive Ski Vacations in the Rockies

If you prefer a super exclusive experience for exclusive ski vacations in the Rockies, Dunton Hot Springs is probably the most authentic that can be found. Dunton is set apart as an authentic mining town reduced to an elegant core of twelve cabins, a bath house (the spa) and a wealth of hot springs set amongst the 14,000 foot high San Juans - a superior setting for exclusive ski vacations in the Rockies.

Ski vacations - exclusive resorts in Colorado

Twelve 1880s cabins - make a fine site for ski vacations at exclusive resorts in Colorado, even all the Rockies. Here at Dunton Hot Springs, if you are staying in one of the luxury ski cabins that does not have its own bath, there is a separate bathhouse, with a pool that is about 30 x 15 feet and another pool outside. That is quite a "bath". Guests here have a luxury all-inclusive mountain ski vacation in Colorado - all-inclusive except the heli-skiing itself. That is additional.

Colorado exclusive ski vacations in the Rockies

Although Dunton has no ski hill close by, it is a site for Colorado exclusive ski vacations in the Rockies. The "exclusive" part of a ski vacation manifest in private heli-skiing. This exclusive heli-ski organization provides Dunton's guests with a private day of skiing in the high San Juans. The helicopter skiing company picks up the guests in front of the saloon with their packed lunches and snacks, crafts the skiing to the skiers and drops them back at the saloon for another night of fine foods, wines, and conversation at the communal table. This could be many folks' idea of an exclusive Colorado ski vacation high in the Rockies.

Exclusive Colorado Ski Resorts

Here at one of the exclusive Colorado ski resorts, the waiters are polo shirt and jeans clad, while the skiing is Colorado heli skiing - private heli-skiing - lifted high up into the San Juans. The resort will fix it up for you, while if you are a cross country skier, then you can just take off - making your own tracks. No grooming here as the whole experience is natural. The resort works to maintain a natural, pristine mountain experience, framed in the sense of luxury all-inclusive and exclusive Colorado ski resorts.

Exclusive Telluride Resorts - Skiing

Here at this super exclusive Telluride ski resort, there are just twelve luxury "rustic" cabins at the old town site of Dunton. The views alone make it exclusive - surrounded by fourteeners cradling this remote experience. Although, the drive is sixty miles into Telluride, it is still the nearby "big town". This is remote. Here the skiing is heli-skiing, private heli-skiing at that. This is what makes it one of the exclusive Telluride Resorts with private skiing options.

Colorado Resorts - Exclusive & All Inclusive

Sleeping like a log is the rule at Dunton, one of the few all- inclusive Colorado resorts with a sense of exclusive luxury. Here, that luxury comes in the form of a mere twelve cabins, two with private hot springs inside them, gourmet food and wines with pampered Western care - in jeans, of course. Each element is thought through to a point of refined, reserved elegance - an elegance that is hand crafted in details - as one would expect at one of the super luxury Colorado resorts - exclusive and all-inclusive.

Exclusive Get-aways in the Colorado Rockies

Dunton Hot Springs is one of the super exclusive getaways in Colorado Rockies. As you can imagine there are not many of them - in any Rockies. Here the exclusivity lies in just twelve hand crafted mountain cabins by the Dolores river and ringed by 14,000 foot high San Juans.

The saloon-dining hall dates from the original town on this site. In the wild days of the 1880s and 90s this was a booming silver mining area; Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid carved their initials in the bar. Now that same bar has calmed down but has its share of peace, memory, reflection, nature - all as a Colorado Rockies exclusive get-away.

Exclusive Mountain Escape in the Rockies of Colorado

That same bar is an exclusive mountain escape in the Rockies of Colorado. The sun comes up over the same San Juans that gave the silver in the 1880s. Now they give the same craggy reaches - the same gold pink, deep maroon and purple. Now the saloon has WiFi rather sarsaparilla and fine wine and liquors rather than "firewater". Tucked away on the banks of the Dolores and hemmed with the fourteeners, we still have the WiFi connectivity that our guests expect as a Rockies' exclusive mountain escape - deep in Colorado's south west near Telluride.

Exclusive Rockies Mountain Experience

Our twelve luxury log cabins, themselves an exclusive Rockies Mountain experience, rescued as they were from the old mining town that is Dunton Hot Springs Resort. The luxury cabins have been passionately renovated with a refined sensibility as a site for ski vacations to exclusive resorts in Colorado, the Rockies. Here, if you are staying in one of the luxury ski cabins that does not have its own bath, there is a separate bathhouse, with a pool that is about 30 x 15 feet and another pool outside. This private mountain experience is born of twelve luxury log cabins, the saloon, and bath house. Dunton is the essence of a Rockies Mountain exclusive experience.

Exclusive Rockies Mountain Getaways

Here at what is an exclusive Rockies mountain get-away, the waiters, all the staff, are in jeans and polo shirts and our guests are in the luxurious privacy of an exclusive part of the world, isolated so as to be a true get-away. Pampered with the luxury of care and exclusive to the point that the skiing is Colorado heli skiing - private, super exclusive heli-skiing where our guests are lifted high up into the San Juans - on their own. Just them and the powder, untracked. Above our exclusive mountain get-away in the Rockies.

Western Rustic Exclusive All-inclusive Experiences

Yes, this is a ghost town, and yes it is the site of Western rustic all-inclusive vacations and experiences. The resort, no - town, was established in 1885 as the camp for the nearby Emma Mine in the San Juan Range of the Colorado Rockies. Later Dunton Hot Springs - named for Horatio Dunton, who owned a local mine, settled into being a ghost. Now it is Dunton Hot Springs resort - site of exclusive Western rustic all-inclusive experiences in the mountains near Telluride.