Luxury dog-friendly hotels in Telluride, United States

A former Victorian mining town at the foot of Colorado’s mighty Rocky Mountains, Telluride is a rootin’ tootin’, all-American stay famous for its 2,000 acres of prime skiing slopes. As picturesque as a Spaghetti Western film set, Telluride is a chaps-wearing cowboy’s dream: clapboard inns line the streets, and snow-dusted mountaintops loom large over the red-brick Sheridan Opera House, a perfectly preserved relic of early 20th-century architecture. While the shops and restaurants in the town centre are enough to distract you for days, the outdoor activities are Telluride’s real draw – winter months call for ice-climbing, sledding and heli-skiing on the pistes and peaks; while warmer climes bring mountain hikes, fly fishing in the winding trout streams and horse-riding through the valleys.