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Rock Creek Stage Stop was built in the 1880s by James and Katherine Gates and is a unique two-story log structure near Gore Pass in Routt County. Over the years, it served many roles, including as a family home, hotel, post office, and stage stop. Located along an...
In 2020, the National Scenic Byways Foundation awarded its Public-Private Partnership Ward to Colorado’s Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway for their work at the McElmo Creek Flume interpretive stop, so now the restored Flume and the interpretive signs at the new TOTA...
One of the oldest surviving reminders of century-old natural springs tourism in Manitou Springs. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a Local Landmark, and a Save America’s Treasures Project, the spa retains original murals, marble floors, and a...
The early town of Calcium was booming in 1888 with a post office, a boarding house, a store, two saloons, and many log houses. In the same year, the Calcium Limestone Company formed and built several limestone kilns. Shortly thereafter, the town of Thomasville grew...
Lewis Mill is one of the most significant surviving high-country mining structures in Colorado. Located at approximately 12,450 feet above sea level in Bridal Veil Basin above Telluride, within a National Historic Landmark District, the mill was built in 1910 as a...
The Mancos Grain Elevator was built in 1934 by Grady Clampitt. Mr. Clampitt and Mr. Luellen, a bordering farmer, grew dryland wheat in fields bordering Mesa Verde National Park on the southeast side; those same fields are used to grow dryland wheat today, and it is...
This homestead ranch has been continuously owned and operated by the Hutchinson family since its establishment in 1868 by John Hutchinson, a Union Army Captain who also served as a representative in the territorial legislature. One of the oldest cattle ranches in the...
Listed on the State Register of Historic Properties, the Union Pacific Railroad roundhouse was constructed in 1909 to service engines on the Kansas-Pacific Railroad. It is one of only four historic roundhouses in Colorado, and is the only brick-constructed roundhouse...
The Hanging Flume illustrates the ingenuity and fortitude of miners, intent on extracting gold from the land. There are a few remaining segments of hanging flumes throughout the western United States, and as a result of this Save! It is the only segment preserved for...