Check Availability

Click HERE to reserve now, email us at info@sangeronimolodge.com, or call Charles and Pam Tyler Montgomery, at 800-894-4119

The San Geronimo Lodge has very spacious common rooms, with high beamed - viga - ceilings, rambling verandas and winding portals. Every morning a full country breakfast is provided for our guests. Homemade muffins, biscuits, or breads are served, warm from the oven, along with the day's special entree and freshly brewed coffee and tea, and juices.

There are so many lovely, historic details to enjoy. Each of the 17 rooms has its own special decor. The public rooms are quiet and relaxing.	The south face of the Lodge. The swimming pool is heated and can be used from May to October.
The patio off the living room is fine for watching the clouds over Pueblo Peak, the magic mountain of Taos.	The Gift Shop has a little kiva fireplace. We don't use it much except to hang art. You'll see lots of art throughout the Lodge. We have shows for artists from near and far.
The Dining Room fireplace. This room is quite large. At a benefit for Taos Talking Pictures, the local film festival, 300 people + the governor came.	There are many balconies, excellent for serious cloud gazing.

The pool in the pines.	The Living Room kiva fireplace.That's Esther on the rug. She showed up one day with her kittens. She's made a purrfect (sorry) lodge cat, friendly and wise. The paintings are from an eight woman show of New Mexico landscape art. Many examples of local hand-crafted furniture abound.
A little niche for a small wooden sculpture. The bear you see at the beginning of this page, was sculpted by a man from Cuba, a small town to the west.	The Lodge is on 2 and 1/2 acres. Lots of trees, including fruit trees, an acequia, gardens, a fountain, views of the Sangre de Cristos & the hills over the Taos Canyon, where hundreds of square miles of national forest begin.

The Old Lodge:

 Around 1890 the land for the lodge was acquired by Simeon Witt, son of Barton Witt, original owner of the "Six Mile Ranch" up in the Sangre de Cristos. The land was a 65 acre tract in Canyon, mostly sagebrush, greasewood and ant hills. Simeon planted hundreds of shade trees, box elders and cottonwood, a 12 acre apple orchard and winter pear and apricot trees. There were mulberry trees and a cherry orchard. Many years passed, children abounded, the Witt family prospered. Simeon died October 2, 1917. He is buried in Taos.
 Simeon's daughter, Clara, married Roy Bonnell, a doctor. They had a son and a daughter. The daughter died in 1924 at the age of seven, from diphtheria.
Roy and Clara started to build a lodge, adding on to Simeon's house. This was in the summer of 1924. This was the first "modern" hotel in Taos, completed in 1926.
 Clara ended up managing the lodge, sometimes finding inventive ways to keep things afloat. The cherries from the cherry orchard, for instance, were traded for hens, which were fattened up and traded to a Springer man for fryers. Cherry pie and fried chicken came from the orchard. And the land provided asparagus, currants, gooseberries, apricots.
 There were so many people connected to the Lodge, including the "Water Boss", a man in his 80's who made sure the lawns were green, the flowers prospered, and the orchards never suffered for lack of water, and waitresses, dishwashers, their families, the cooks, the guests, the participants in the Lodge's famous dinner dances.
 Then Clara had her sons. In 1930, something happened between Roy and Clara and she ended up with the children and the Lodge. And then she sold it in the early 1940's.
 It was a jumping joint in the early 70's.
 They say it has ghosts, a man and a woman, someone has attested.

 Charles and Pam Tyler Montgomery's the new owner of the Lodge. You can still get homemade breads and local produce just like in the old days. The gardens are still there. And the ghosts won't bother you, unless you want them to.