NEW HOTEL OPENING

The White Elephant is an exciting, luxurious property in exciting, luxurious Aspen

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Aspen, in the Rocky Mountains, is in a remote area of the Sawatch Range and Elk Mountains, at an elevation just under 8,000 feet, and is a home rule city and the county seat of Pitkin County in Colorado. Founded as a mining camp during the Colorado Silver Boom — stop us if you know this — in the 1880s and named for the abundance of aspen trees in the area. In the mid-20th century, it became world famous as one of America’s favorite outdoor playgrounds, when Aspen Mountain was developed into a ski resort.

 

In downtown, the White Elephant Aspen opens June 15. The hotel’s architecture is a little different to the normal Victorian-inspired and log cabin-like buildings you see around town, injecting a bit of modernity. The interior design is warm and rich with local materials. Each room and suite has a doorknocker — right? When did you last see one of those in a hotel? — a nod to sister properties in Nantucket and Palm Beach.

 

 

New Hotel the White Elepant Aspen lobby
You could hang in this lobby… But you’re in Aspen, go out! Photo provided by Wonderlust

 

 

There are 54 rooms, including a 730 square-foot, two-bedroom suite perfect for families (and, I guess, swingers), and the 1660 square-foot Penthouse Suite, with three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, kitchen, dining space, living room and private balcony with sweeping mountain views.  

 

 

New Hotel The White Elephant Aspen Penthouse Suite living area
The room in the Elephant: the Penthouse Suite Photo provided by Wonderlust

 

 

Lola 41 is the hotel’s restaurant, offering a menu of seafood with an Asian and Mediterranean flavor, great new and unique cocktail creations, and 41 Below a  private dining space. 

 

If you do not want to eat in the hotel, Aspen has, of course, a host of excellent restaurants and has become something of a culinary hotspot. Which is a long cry from when the first jetsetters were getting there, let me tell you.

 

White Elephant has a long-standing partnership with BMW, so year-round you can have a courtesy car to get around town and in the winter a shuttle to and from the ski slopes. When it gets a tad warmer than it is right now, you can cool off in the outdoor pool or borrow a complimentary bicycle for a ride.

 

But, you know, maybe not after you’ve had some of those unique cocktails…

 

 

 

110 West Main Street, Aspen, CO 81611

Tel: (844) 207-8797

 

https://www.whiteelephantaspen.com/