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Grand Lake (Colorado) · When it rains

When the lake's grey.

The tasting room with a fire going. The bookstore that doesn't mind if you stay two hours. The museum nobody on TripAdvisor mentions. Rain on a lake is one of the better problems to have.

Iconic stops

1 stop
  • Grand Lake
    Kauffman House Museum
    Editor's pick

    A log building built in 1892 by prospector Ezra Kauffman, operated as a hotel until 1920 — the only surviving log hotel built in Grand Lake before 1900, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and restored as a museum in 1973.