In Transit Blog: A Colorado Hotel With Plenty of Paleontology

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Visitors to the Denver area can now spend a night in the museum –or at least at a dinosaur-themed hotel that is also part natural history museum.

The Best Western Denver Southwest in Lakewood, Colo., recently underwent a $4 million renovation that transformed the 112-room property into an immersive experience "that echoes an old explorers club," Meredith Tally, who owns the hotel along with her husband, Greg Tally, said in a telephone interview.

The lobby features louvered glass curiosity cabinets filled with fossils and reproduction dinosaur teeth; elements from an early-20th-century bank lobby; an antique fireplace; mahogany and pine paneling; overstuffed leather furniture; and a coffee table created from a vintage steam trunk — all meant to make guests feel as though  they've stepped back in time.

Dinosaur skulls, an interactive fossil table, a mock fossil dig and other items on display and used in the hotel's educational programs are touchable. "We want people to feel comfortable" Ms. Tally said. "For kids especially, learning about science is a very tactile experience."

Outside the property, visitors are greeted by a life-size stegosaurus statue named Stanley, and dinosaur-themed artwork is displayed throughout public spaces and in guest rooms. A new pool is shaped like a seaway of some 85 million years ago.

The hotel is 10 minutes from Dinosaur Ridge, Ms. Tally said, "where enormous school bus-size" stegosaurus skeletons were found and which is still an active site where fossils are being unearthed.

Also nearby are the Morrison Natural History Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Triceratops Trail.

For the self-proclaimed "armchair paleontologists," creating a hotel based on the area's dinosaur heritage "was an opportunity to do something unique, something original," Mr. Tally said. He said that they worked in consultation with paleontology experts to ensure scientific accuracy.


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