A restored ghost town in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, Dunton Hot Springs offers exclusive-use weddings for up to 54 guests in 13 luxury hand-hewn log cabins, with ceremonies in an open-air chapel, a Victorian dancehall and saloon, and natural hot springs fed by the mountain itself.
Dunton Hot Springs was a silver mining ghost town that peaked in the 1890s and was left to the elements until a private buyer restored it in the late 1990s — not as a theme park version of the past, but as a genuine reconstruction of the cabins, dancehall, saloon, bathhouse, and chapel that the original miners built. Today it sits at around 8,600 feet in the San Juan Mountains, an hour from Telluride, accessed by a dirt road that makes the final approach feel like entering another era entirely.
The all-inclusive, exclusive-use model means that a Dunton wedding is less a venue hire and more a complete takeover of a mountain village for a minimum of three nights. The nightly rate covers all 13 hand-hewn log cabins, every meal, all drinks (outside the Reserve List), the hot springs, mountain bikes, hiking, spa services and laundry. The ceremony can unfold in the open-air chapel, in the Victorian dancehall, beside the river, or in a mountain meadow — the backdrop changes, the sense of being somewhere genuinely apart from the world does not.
Enquire about Dunton Hot Springs →What's includedAll accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner, all beverages (excluding Reserve List), hot springs access, mountain bikes, library, WiFi, laundry; ceremony location, champagne toast; optional additions: officiant, bouquets, cake, photography, couple's gift
Up to 54 guests at Dunton Hot Springs. Dunton River Camp accommodates up to 16 guests. Both properties combined can host up to 70 guests.
All accommodation (13 cabins at Hot Springs), breakfast, lunch, dinner, all beverages excluding the Reserve List, hot springs access, mountain bikes, library, WiFi, laundry, and the ceremony location and champagne toast.
Summer/fall (May–October) requires a 3-night minimum for a full property buyout. Winter/spring requires a 2-night minimum.
Full property (up to 54 guests) starts at $60,000/night; Dunton River Camp (up to 16 guests) is $22,000/night; both combined (up to 70 guests) is $75,000/night. All subject to 20% taxes and fees.
The open-air chapel, the original Victorian dancehall and saloon, riverside at River Camp, or in a meadow on the property — couples can customise the ceremony location.
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