I reserved 2 nights at the Ponderosa for the middle of a month long road trip, was looking forward to the river view in the pictures, touring he park nearby and resting mid-trip..
1st impression, the screen door to the patio was extremely dirty, torn badly and very difficult to even open. The view was completely different than the advertised photos. It is directly across the road, many cars noisily passing constantly and parked trucks were visible across the street.
The misleading photos are mostly taken from across the street, which is not your view. Not good. The few views they show in photos from the patio are cropped so you do not see the actual, true view. I felt misled, badly.
It was, by far, my worst experience of the 20 places I stayed, had to check out after one night. There are MUCH nicer options a short distance away that are set back from the road without all the traffic and thankfully I found one for the next night.
Also, the ceilings are extremely low and rooms are cramped. There was creaky floor noise from the room above that awoke me in the middle of the night and kept me awake. A refrigerator was 5 feet from my head when trying to sleep that made a loud buzzing.
It was a nightmare trying to rest and my dream of enjoying Rocky Mountain Park was severely compromised because of this.
I wrote these complaints and asked for a full refund, received a bunch of defensive, inaccurate excuses and was thrown a crumb.