John Baxter (Dean Jones), a New Yorker fed up with big-city life, inherits a hotel in the Rocky Mountains and convinces his family to move to Colorado to run it. Unfortunately, the Baxter clan is greeted by a run-down building that hasn't been inhabited for years. Undaunted, the family sets about fixing up the place, not knowing that a local businessman is scheming to get his hands on the property by any means necessary.