The Strater: The Hotel That Built Durango 

My wife and I stayed here in 2016. Love it!

Love Durango! I graduated from FLC, ate some of the best food at the Strater for brunch, and married my hubby in Hesperus. ♥️

What a wonderful documentary, I am 4th generation Colorado native, I need to stay here. So incredibly special and beautiful.

Love the History of my great mountain town! Long Live Durango!

I got to stay at the Strater once. It was a singular experience that I hope to repeat someday. Wondrful

Married in Durango and spent our honeymoon at the Strater in July 2005. Wonderful place.

Fantastic documentary. I stayed at The Strater Hotel quite a few years ago, but it was an experience I will never forget. It was almost magical. Thanks for the post.

They got me at "The sheriff shot the marshal"

Fantastic show. Love Colorado history. Glad to see a mention of Adam Swanson. He is a very great Ragtime player. We look forward to our next trip to Durango.

Looking forward to staying there in June of 2021. My wife loves historic old hotels, and we're staying at The Stanley in Estes Park as well.

I lived here 2011-2014 and 2018 my mom worked there

This is very interesting and I definitely think Louis L’Amour when I hear Strater Hotel.

I really wish that I could go and stay there just beautiful!

Without the Strater in Durango, Farmington NM wouldn't rise and become Baseball Town USA.

I worked here in the kitchen with some really cool professional chief's. I meet the owner twice in the kitchen.

His second hotel was probably Colorado's first spite store. Larry David would be proud!

We ate at the Diamond Belle this past summer. It was a great experience to step back in time.

I was born in Durango Colorado

Stretching the faces in the old portraits to simulate motion is really creepy.

Proud that I’m a daughter of a worker there 😭💕

Very cool

40 sec into this. Stopping in the middle downing my drink. The Sherriff shot the town Marshall? Whaaat?

Looks like there are a few pieces missing from the top of the building.

My mom worked there

So did he get all the artifacts back to take to Sweden?

Only thing that angers me about Durango History is local Native Americans who payed the price of our culture and identity, for others to get gold, money, fame and its sad. It's really not much to be proud of in my mind. I'm just thankful our people made it through and adapted so we can continue to survive and hold onto our identity. If only those around us just recognized the sacrifice forced onto the local Utes, and many more tribes across America for the success of that is today for the ancestors of settlers. Native Americans are dying and becoming extinct and that's a fact. Many are adapting and all we ask for is recognition and no more institutional genocide from the US government from treaties and laws made a long time ago. Everything the Utes have now, were made from our own people and I pray we continue that growth.

I hope they go bankrupt