Seven Keys Lodge

Seven Keys Lodge (formerly known as The Baldpate Inn) is a historic hotel located in Estes Park, Colorado.

[1] The property has changed hands several times, always under a private family's proprietorship.

While the hotel originally gave away keys as curios, today it is known for its collection of more than 20,000 keys, usual, unusual and figurative, that have been offered to the inn by visitors, hotel guests, and dignitaries from all over the world.

Keys are catalogued in a database, supported by a grant from American History Savers and maintained by rotating curators who offer insight into the collections through a lecture series and blog.

The hotel structurally survived the 2013 Colorado floods, although the road leading to the property, which also connects to local trailheads, was severely damaged due to erosion.

Exterior of the Seven Keys Lodge, 2012
National Register of Historic Places, metal plaque
A sampling of the keys hung from the ceiling in the Key Room at the hotel
The Key to Occlusion at the hotel
Saw mill at the hotel