Stephen King's novel The Shining is set in which hotel?

Stephen King’s novel The Shining is set primarily in the Overlook Hotel. The isolated resort stands in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and closes for the winter, leaving caretaker Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their son Danny largely cut off from the outside world.

The hotel is more than a backdrop: its violent history and supernatural presence drive the novel’s central conflict. Danny’s psychic ability, known as “the shining,” allows him to perceive the danger surrounding the building. As the family remains snowbound, the Overlook’s past begins to influence Jack and intensifies his alcoholism, anger, and psychological instability.

Readers often mix up the Overlook with the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. King and his wife stayed at the Stanley in 1974, and that visit helped inspire the novel, but the Overlook is fictional. The Shining was published in 1977 and was later adapted into Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film, which made the hotel an enduring symbol of horror.