Dolores Colorado Del Rio Hotel
by Janice Pariza
Title
Dolores Colorado Del Rio Hotel
Artist
Janice Pariza
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Historic Del Rio Hotel sits on a corner in Dolores, Colorado on Colorado's Western Slope. This is a HDR image.
This Hotel was favored by many back in the day.
The town of Dolores is a Statutory Town in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The population was 936 at the 2010 census. It is one of three incorporated municipalities in the county.
Dolores (Spanish for "sorrows" and named for the river on which it is located) is located at the mouth of the Dolores Valley and the upper reaches of McPhee Reservoir, approximately 40 miles from the Four Corners Monument. Established as a station on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, it replaced the earlier town, Big Bend, now covered by McPhee Reservoir. McPhee Reservoir is named for a company town founded by New Mexico Lumber Company, that is now covered by the reservoir.
The Four Corners is a region of the United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, northwestern corner of New Mexico, northeastern corner of Arizona and southeastern corner of Utah. The Four Corners area is named after the quadripoint where the boundaries of the four states meet, where the Four Corners Monument is located. It is the only location in the United States where four states meet. Most of the Four Corners region belongs to semi-autonomous Native American nations, the largest of which is the Navajo Nation, followed by Hopi, Ute, and Zuni tribal reserves and nations. The Four Corners region is part of a larger region known as the Colorado Plateau and is mostly rural, rugged and arid. In addition to the monument, commonly visited areas within Four Corners include Monument Valley, Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument. The most populous city in the Four Corners region is Farmington, New Mexico, followed by Durango, Colorado.
Dolores river was named "Rio de Nuestra Senora de las Dolores", (the river of Our Lady of Sorrows) by Dominguez and Escalante, Spanish Catholic priests in 1776 when they came through this area seeking a route from the missions of Santa Fe, NM, to California. In 1891 the inhabitants of the area named the Town after the river to Dolores. It was incorporated by July 7th, 1900. Dolores was a busy community in the early 1900 as a major stop for the rail road running from Durango to Telluride and then Ridgeway. Many of the old structures and buildings are still here and if you stop for a moment and listen you can still hear the locomotive building steam for the long climb over the pass to Telluride. Today Dolores is filled with warm and friendly people in an atmosphere that will remind you of the past and the way it used to be. It is still all here, waiting for you to see and enjoy.
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July 7th, 2014
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