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Kendall Mountain Lodge

Hospitality · Silverton, Colorado

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Boutique Lodging in Historic Silverton

Kendall Mountain Lodge is a boutique hostel and lodge on Blair Street in Silverton, Colorado — a short walk from the Silverton Railroad Depot. The previous site buried photography under template chrome and offered no clear path to a booking from a phone in transit. The owners came to us for a site that looked like Silverton and worked like a useful tool the moment a traveler landed on a room page.

We rebuilt the site around photography, a frictionless mobile booking flow, and local SEO tuned for searches like 'where to stay in Silverton' and 'hostel near Durango Silverton Railroad.' Every page passes Core Web Vitals on 4G, and the booking integration pipes directly into the lodge's existing reservation system so the team never reconciles bookings across two platforms.

Project Goals

Mobile Booking

Goal

Local Discovery

Goal

Photo-Led Identity

Goal

What Changed

  1. Photography-Led Home

    Wide-format Kendall Mountain image at golden hour replaces a generic stock header.

  2. One-Hand Booking Flow

    Mobile-first reservation funnel with in-page availability synced to the lodge's existing system.

  3. Schema + GBP Tuning

    LocalBusiness and Lodging structured data plus a Google Business Profile audit for regional search.

What We Delivered

Custom Web Design

Photography-led layout sized for everything from a phone in transit to a 27-inch desktop.

Booking Integration

Mobile-friendly reservation flow that syncs with the lodge's existing reservation system.

Local SEO

Structured data, Google Business Profile optimization, and citations across travel directories.

Original Photography

On-site shoots of guest rooms, common areas, and the surrounding San Juan Mountains.

Performance Tuning

Edge-cached HTML and responsive WebP imagery keep load times under two seconds on 4G.

Client Editor

Staff edit room copy, swap photos, and update rates without writing a line of code.

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