The mountains are looking a little more stylish heading into summer, as new boutique hotels and independent restaurants open from ski towns to the Sand Dunes. The Western exterior. (Photo courtesy of Stephan Werk) Perhaps most surprising among the new destinations — in terms of design, food and hospitality — is a renovated 132-year-old hotel in Ouray, once a miners settlement, now known for hot springs and dramatic mountain backdrops (and nicknamed accordingly as the Switzerland of America). In Ouray’s historic center, The Western Hotel & Spa is an original, three-story wood structure, built as a boarding house during the town’s mining era.