What's Actually New In Manitou This Summer: A Local's Field Guide

If you walked Manitou Avenue last July and walked it again this week, the storefronts are not the same. The town's "keep it weird" reputation tends to get told as a story about continuity, the same drum circles and the same coffin races year after year. That story is missing the past twelve months. Between the East End and the Ruxton corridor, roughly ten new businesses have opened, a long-vacant hotel is being rebuilt around a wellness concept, and a national grocer is quietly trying to reopen the town's old mineral water plant. If you already live here, this is the summer to actually try the places you've been driving past.

The East End finally got an anchor

The Outrider Hotel is the piece of this shift you can see from the road.