Cloud’s owners made the decision to dismantled it and move the hotel, brick by brick, to Cañon City. The town became a ghost of its former self, so the Hotel St.
Most of the ore mills shut down and the population dwindled. The miners, gamblers, dance hall girls, and traveling businessmen who frequented the hotel’s well-appointed rooms were gone. A railroad did eventually come close to Silver Cliff- about two miles away, in what is now Westcliffe-but when the mining era died, the Hotel St. The journey would have taken seven hours over rough roads during unpredictable weather. With a railroad line nowhere near the town, if you lived in Cañon City and desired to visit Silver Cliff you had to take a stagecoach by the Colorado Stage Express.
Cloud was first established in Silver Cliff, Colorado in 1883 by proprietors Abell and Bracken. Cloud, 631 Main Street, Cañon City, Colorado.
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