Colo. Approves Tourism Funds For Stanley Hotel Film Center, Horror Museum

James Dimagiba

The film center, slated to open in 2018, will be located on the grounds of the famed Stanley Hotel -- also the site of the annual Stanley Film Festival and a new hedge maze inspired by the classic horror film “The Shining.” According to the project’s application to the EDC, the facility would include a 500-seat film auditorium, two amphitheaters, a film archive, classroom and film production space, and a museum. Its projected cost is about $24.5 million.

“It’s quite exciting,” Estes Park Mayor Bill Pinkham told the Estes Park Trail Gazette. “It’s just another layer to the [local economic] cake. It’s an attraction that will bring people from all over the world."

The Stanley Film Center is part of a larger tourism initiative in Northern Colorado submitted to the EDC called Go NoCo.