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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Seven Keys Lodge

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The world’s largest random, assorted key collection located outside Denver, CO, was inspired by a literary infatuation and includes keys to danger and memory. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/baldpate-inn-key-collection

Transcript

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0:00.0

I feel like everyone has had a version of this experience.

0:04.0

You pull open your junk drawer where you've got all these weird little bits and bobs

0:08.3

that don't really have a purpose, but you can't bear to throw away.

0:12.5

And they are in among them.

0:14.6

There's almost always a handful of mysterious keys.

0:19.4

And you pick one of the keys up and you look at it and you think, what does this go

0:27.5

to?

0:29.4

And it occurs to you that probably you should throw it away.

0:32.7

You haven't used it in years, but then some tiny voice in your head says, no, don't throw

0:37.3

it away because you're going to go to open something and it's going to be locked and you're

0:41.5

going to go, oh my god, where's the key?

0:43.3

And then you're going to go, oh my god, I've got the key.

0:46.0

And so you put the key back in the junk drawer and then you do this again 10 years later

0:51.6

when you have definitely not figured out what that key goes to.

0:55.8

That is the story of me and in my random keys, I refuse to throw away.

1:03.3

But there is a place 9,000 feet above sea level in Colorado where the prevailing attitude

1:09.7

is the more keys the merrier.

1:12.0

At the seven keys lodge, they have thousands and thousands of keys, including some pretty

1:18.4

fascinating historical ones.

1:20.9

So we've got the key to Frankenstein's castle.

1:24.6

And some potentially dangerous ones too.

1:27.9

We have a key to a nuclear power plant, like where like nuclear testing was done.

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