Meeker Park Lodge

My family has been coming here for over 40 years. It’s my favorite place in the world for a multitude of reasons, not the least of which is that there is no cell phone service. You get to be completely detached from the hectic nature home. The cabins are great if you want privacy and peace, and the rooms work well if you want to save a bit of money. The Dever family is as kind and amazing as people can get. If you’re going to give anyone in or near Estes Park your business, it should be them.

I’m not sure I truly understood the meaning of rustic until I stayed at Meeker Lodge. It has NO wifi or cell service AT ALL so if you’re a city girl like me download 2 or 3 books onto the Kindle prior to the trip.
The cabin we stayed in had one bedroom, one bath and a reasonably sized kitchen with gas stove. My biggest complaint is that our cabin which ran about $ 125 per night had a full size bed. Which is cool if you and the person sleeping in it are skinny bitches. My husband and I took turns sleeping on the pull out couch after the first night.
In general it’s a beautiful part of the country to visit and staying at Meeker just adds to the ambiance. They even have horse back riding at $ 35 per hour– $ 34 if you’re staying in the lodge or cabin. Not to mention a one room store if you need ice or mixers.

Great spot for a weekend getaway!
Jim’s mom came to Colorado for a weekend of fun and adventure in the Rocky Mountain National Park. We’ve been to Estes Park before and while it’s nice to visit once, it’s just way over run with tourists, in our opinion, to be enjoyable.
Allenspark is the perfect spot to relax in the mountains. It’s about 15 minutes from Estes Park if you need to pick up some supplies or catch a whitewater rafting shuttle, and it’s a mile or two from a couple different trail heads in RMNP.
Meeker Park Lodge has been run by the same family since 1922. We stayed in the Robin cabin, at the end of the property near the horse stables. It was a great spot because we couldn’t see the other cabins and had views of mountains in two different directions.
We stopped by a few weeks before to check it out. While we were in the main lodge there were a couple other guests promoting the lodge to us! One woman from Florida has come back several times which was comforting for us to hear and now we see why.
The cabins are mountain cabins, rustic, charming, not well insulated (we could see day light through the walls). But it was surprisingly clean considering the age and being a mountain lodge. Kitchen was stocked with everything we needed for the weekend, we used the grill every day, and enjoyed a cozy fire in the fireplace with our morning coffee.
The only reason I didn’t give it five stars is it does sit right on Hwy 7 and you do hear road noise. It didn’t detract from our stay as we were usually gone during the day and morning/​evening traffic was minimal.
We would definitely recommend!
~Colette & Jim