
Hotel Strategy
AdjustSavvy Traveler
Savvy choices.
First visit? Stay in Downtown Colorado Springs.
Downtown is the least complicated first-visit base: the most walkable concentration of hotels, restaurants, museums and evening options, plus THE ZEB and the best local bus connections. You will still want a car or tours for the big outdoor sights, but it gives a visitor something to do after returning from them.
Avoid sleeping near Southeast Colorado Springs, Airport and Fort Carson corridor, Isolated I-25 hotel frontage outside Downtown or the north side, Powers and East Colorado Springs, if you are visiting without a car. Use it only when the airport, Fort Carson or a low rate is the priority. It is car-dependent, remote from the visitor sights, and the evidence specifically flags southeast Colorado Springs as generally less safe than the west or north.

Hotel Strategy
AdjustSavvy Traveler
Savvy choices.
First visit? Stay in Downtown Colorado Springs.
Downtown is the least complicated first-visit base: the most walkable concentration of hotels, restaurants, museums and evening options, plus THE ZEB and the best local bus connections. You will still want a car or tours for the big outdoor sights, but it gives a visitor something to do after returning from them.
Avoid sleeping near Southeast Colorado Springs, Airport and Fort Carson corridor, Isolated I-25 hotel frontage outside Downtown or the north side, Powers and East Colorado Springs, if you are visiting without a car. Use it only when the airport, Fort Carson or a low rate is the priority. It is car-dependent, remote from the visitor sights, and the evidence specifically flags southeast Colorado Springs as generally less safe than the west or north.