Hidden bars & speakeasies in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs hides 9 bars worth the hunt, including Shame & Regret, Aurathentic and Black Monarch Hotel. Unmarked doors, back-of-the-laundromat phone booths, no-sign basements — speakeasies that earned the word rather than borrowing it for the decor. They spread across Downtown Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Victor (old gold-mining town), Old Colorado City and 2 more areas, so two or three can make a whole afternoon. Every entry is hand-vetted against real sources — not scraped off a top-ten list or averaged out of crowd ratings.
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Shame & Regret
A gothic whiskey sanctuary tucked down a string-lit back alley between a falafel cafe and a comic book store, where 110 American whiskeys and 120 single-malt Scotches wait behind a neon sign and a promise: your secrets are safe with us.
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Aurathentic
A wellness boutique and creekside bar rolled into one: get your aura photographed, lie on a vibroacoustic bed, and wash it all down with a chakra-themed cocktail steps from Fountain Creek — all under one roof on Manitou Ave.
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Black Monarch Hotel
A gothic Victorian hotel in the near-ghost-town of Victor — former casino, brothel, and saloon — with seven rooms themed after history's killers and monsters (H.H. Holmes, Elizabeth Báthory, Dracula, Jack the Ripper), antique taxidermy, black-everything decor, and a well-earned haunted reputation.
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Gratitude Zero Proof Bar
Colorado's most complete alcohol-free bar, tucked into The Sluice in Old Colorado City — exotic mocktails built on kava, blue lotus, cayenne, and mushroom tinctures, plus NA beer, wine, and Indonesian tea, born from the owners' own sobriety journeys.
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Provision
Provision is a genuine 1920s-speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar on Castle Rock's historic Wilcox Street block, where a swinging bookcase at the end of the restroom hallway conceals a private back room fitted with back-lit wooden lockers for members' rare spirits collections. The bar opened in 2022, draws consistently strong reviews, and operates Wednesday through Saturday evenings.
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Shrunken Head Tiki Bar
Colorado Springs' first and only tiki bar hides underground on Tejon Street — you enter through an unmarked door squeezed between Oskar Blues and Bell Brothers Brewing, then descend by stairs or elevator into a subterranean jungle escape. The decor swings between whimsy and macabre: literal swings serve as barstools at the center bar, human-skull props are embedded in the divider walls, and a fog-machine fountain bubbles in the middle of it all. Handmade tiki mugs by Manitou Springs artist Mark Wong line the shelves alongside elaborate anti-classic cocktails served cold and strong. Self-described as the "first and only tiki bar in Colorado Springs," it's the kind of place that shouldn't exist here, which is exactly why you need to go.
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Hidden Peak Tiki Lounge
Somewhere under a historic feedstore in a 400-person mountain town at nearly 8,000 feet, you'll find a fully realized tropical tiki bar — bamboo, vintage cocktail recipes dating to the 1940s, and $12 mai tais that hit differently at altitude. Hidden Peak Tiki Lounge occupies the basement of B. Social Feedstore on Westcliffe's main drag, run by year-round local residents Katie and Rian James who apparently decided the Sangre de Cristo foothills needed a Polynesian speakeasy. The "hidden" part isn't marketing: it's genuinely tucked below street level in a town most people drive through without stopping. You didn't hear it from us.
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The Rabbit Hole
A gothic Alice-in-Wonderland speakeasy and restaurant built inside Colorado Springs' former city morgue and crematorium, serving theatrical flaming cocktails amid murals, vintage clocks, and morgue-era brickwork.
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District Eleven
Tell the host at T-Byrd's Tacos & Tequila you're here for district elleven and they'll walk you back through an actual vault door — or come in off the back alley, where their sign hides under a flood lamp. Inside: a moody, maximalist whiskey den, 200-plus bottles deep, pouring prohibition-era cocktails.
Hidden bars & speakeasies in Colorado Springs — FAQ
Which hidden bars & speakeasies in Colorado Springs are the strangest?
Ranked by how strange they actually are: Provision, Shrunken Head Tiki Bar and The Rabbit Hole. Provision — Provision is a genuine 1920s-speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar on Castle Rock's historic Wilcox Street block, where a swinging bookcase at the end of the restroom hallway conceals a private back room fitted with back-lit wooden lockers for members' rare spirits collections.
Where in Colorado Springs are they?
Across Downtown Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Victor (old gold-mining town), Old Colorado City and Castle Rock and 1 more. Each listing gives the neighborhood and address so you can cluster a couple into one outing.
Is this a good weird date in Colorado Springs?
That's what the list is built for. Every entry has a specific move rather than a vague recommendation — at Provision, for instance: Book a reservation for two on a Friday or Saturday evening, work through Provision's curated cocktail menu (25-30 original drinks plus 160+ classics in the "black book"), then ask the staff about sneaking into the hidden bookcase room for a nightcap — if it's available for small parties, it seats up to eight and makes for an intimate, genuinely surprising end to the night.
How were these hidden bars & speakeasies chosen?
An agentic research system digs for the genuinely obscure — the spots even locals miss — and every one is verified against real sources before it makes the list. We deliberately skip the landmarks already on every Colorado Springs guide.