20 Minutes to Boulder.. A world Away, Sky Mountain Lodge awaits you! The lodge is on a gently sloping, private 3.5 acres, with stunning Mountain Views to the south. 1/2 mile to the historic town of Gold Hill, Colorado, which boasts Colorado’s oldest elementary school, The Gold Hill Inn, a 5 star restaurant, bar and lodge, the General Store with Cafe/Pub, gift shop, and Colorado Mountain Ranch a guest horse ranch. The Bluebird Lodge hosts murder mystery productions all summer long (meal included) Many superb hiking trails can be accessed nearby.
SkyMountain Lodge is a truly special home, located 10 miles west of downtown Boulder and 45 minutes from Rocky Mountain National Park & Eldora Ski Resort. A “Net-Zero” energy stucco home with passive solar design. Thoroughly updated with decorative concrete floors, low VOC wool carpet & paint. Designer kitchen with hickory & shoji cabinets which compliment the granite/quartz tiles and copper edging, stainless appliances. Kitchen fully stocked with cooking and baking essentials, dishes, glasses etc. There are 3 eating spaces, bar in the kitchen, and breakfast table in the atrium, with separate formal dining room. The main floor also contains a full bath off the mud room. Upstairs there are 3+ bedrooms and two full bathrooms. The master suite features custom lighting, double ended soaking tub, with separate walk in shower and marble floors. The top floor is magical with 3rd quiet bedroom, and entertainment room with custom balcony skylight. Best views in the house! Outdoors there are decks on 3 levels with gorgeous mountain views. Be sure to enjoy the hot tub and infrared sauna during your stay!
You will have complete privacy in the main house and all adjoining decks.
***There is a self contained apartment for the resident manager (Shelby) with a separate entry***
Absolutely no tobacco smoking allowed at the property, however we are MJ friendly.
Sorry! No pets are allowed to stay at the lodge.
Be aware that we have limited cell service at the lodge, though phones with WiFi calling should work, and we provide a landline for guest use.
Sky Mountain Lodge was designed and built to be a “passive solar” house, meaning that the main source of heat is the sun! The secondary heat source is the wood stove; which when running regularly, heats the whole house quite well. That said, guests may not want to maintain a fire during their stay. So we’ve provided several individual space heaters for night time use and cloudy days.
The lodge is located at 8,300 feet above sea level and altitude sickness is a possibility at this elevation.
We are in bear country! Please do not leave food in your vehicles overnight and be sure to lock car doors; our bears have learned how to open them :)
The WiFi is reliable high speed DSL.
The lodge is supplied with a reverse osmosis system in the kitchen so the water is absolutely fine to drink, no bottled water needed!
We are on a septic system and we ask that guests please NOT put anything other than the toilet paper provided into the toilet. This includes “flushable” wet wipes, they are NOT septic safe. We provide flip top lidded trash receptacles in the bathrooms to place sanitary products, wet wipes etc.
Due to bears, we do not have outside trash storage, so if you fill a bag please place it in the extra trash bins in pantry/laundry room.
We recycle! All glass, cans, paperboard, cardboard and plastic containers (rinsed as needed) go into mixed recycling containers also in the laundry/pantry off the kitchen.
**All wheel drive and 4 wheel drive necessary in winter!
There is limited public transportation to Gold Hill, we have a mountain community biodiesel bus service that runs weekday mornings and evenings. Refer to their website for current timetable
The bus can also be hired privately on weekends for wedding or other parties.
Uber and Lyft both serve the Boulder/Gold Hill corridor.
