The Avenue Hotel B&B is the ideal home base for your Colorado Springs vacation.
Our Manitou Springs bed and breakfast is located just off U.S. Highway 24 approximately 5 miles west of downtown Colorado Springs, 2 miles west of Old Colorado City, 10 miles east of Woodland Park, and 65 miles south of Denver. Cripple Creek is an hour drive away with the Florissant Fossil Beds 30 miles to the west, North Pole and the Pikes Peak Highway entrance are 2 miles west all accessed from U.S. Highway 24. The Miramont Castle, Cave of the Winds, and Garden of the Gods are also nearby attractions with the adjacent Pike National Forest offering 1,110,482 acres for hiking, camping, fishing, rafting, and wildlife viewing opportunities.
The history of Manitou Springs is forever linked with the springsaround which it was founded. The numerous natural soda mineral springshave attracted mankind for centuries.
The Nations of the Ute, Arapaho,Cheyenne, and Kiowa were all frequent visitors to this neutral groundknown for the therapeutic effects of drinking and bathing in themineral water. Western explorers' reports attracted interest in thearea with influential doctors of the time writing glowingly of thehealth benefits of the mineral waters.
Links to attractions near our hotel
- Hiking and Biking (there are dozens of trails in the Pikes Peak area)
- Pikes Peak Cog Railway
- Pikes Peak Highway
- Cave of the Winds
- Ancient Cliff Dwellings
- Seven Falls
- Air Force Academy
- Garden of the Gods
- Horse back riding and Hiking at Garden of the Gods
- Colorado Springs College
- Ghost Town Museum
- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
- River Runners
