Yearly lodging occupancy rates generally higher across region

The post-pandemic rebound in lodging occupancy rates continued in 2022 in the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado, according to a report issued Friday by the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association.

With the exception of Estes Park, hotels, motels, inns, bed-and-breakfasts and other overnight accommodations across the region showed healthy increases in 2022 over those of 2021, when COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions were just beginning to ease.

Boulder accommodations, for instance, showed 65.8% occupancy for all of 2022, compared with 56.2% in 2021. Rooms along the U.S. Highway 36 corridor between Broomfield and Denver were 63.3% sold in 2022, well ahead of their 52%…