What is the name of the town where Misery is set?

The town where Stephen King’s Misery is set is Sidewinder, Colorado.

Paul Sheldon’s ordeal begins in a remote, snowy area near Sidewinder after his car crashes during a winter storm. Annie Wilkes rescues him and takes him to her isolated house, where she holds him captive and demands that he revive Misery Chastain, the heroine of his bestselling romance novels.

Sidewinder is fictional, but it occupies a recognizable place in King’s shared geography. The town is associated with the Colorado mountains and is also connected to the area around the Overlook Hotel from The Shining. That link is one reason readers sometimes remember Misery as simply taking place at the Overlook, although the main action occurs in Annie’s home.

Castle Rock, Derry, and Jerusalem’s Lot are other important King settings, but none is the town named in this question. Misery was published in 1987, and its confined Colorado setting intensifies the story’s themes of isolation, dependence, and control.