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History and culture - Lake County
Twin Lakes village is a preserved 1800s mountain town
The Twin Lakes Historic District and the nearby Interlaken resort preserve a late-1800s mountain village and lake-side hotel that grew up on the road between Leadville and Aspen.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Aurora's culture system grew from the public library
Aurora's whole Library and Cultural Services department traces back to one 1929 act: founding the Aurora Public Library.
Read note ->Cars and driving - Otero County
A Santa Fe Trail Drive Through Otero County's Plains Towns
Trace the Santa Fe Trail National Scenic Byway through Otero County, linking Bent's Old Fort, the Sierra Vista overlook, the Otero Museum, and La Junta's old downtown in one easy day by car.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
A whole city's stages gathered under one downtown roof
The Denver Performing Arts Complex packs more than a dozen venues and four resident companies onto twelve downtown acres under an 80-foot glass canopy.
Read note ->History and culture - Custer County
Beckwith Ranch: the red-roofed Victorian on Highway 69
A white-clapboard Victorian ranch house with bright red roofs sits just northwest of Westcliffe, a National Register landmark that volunteers open for tours each summer.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
Boggsville sits where the Santa Fe Trail met the river bottom
Boggsville, near Las Animas, is a preserved 1860s settlement on the Santa Fe Trail that helps explain why people first put down roots along the rivers in Bent County.
Read note ->History and culture - Kit Carson County
Burlington keeps a working antique carousel that is a National Historic Landmark
The Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington is an early-1900s wooden carousel the county bought in the 1920s, later named a National Historic Landmark.
Read note ->History and culture - Rio Blanco County
Canyon Pintado: a thousand years of rock art on the road to Rangely
A 16,000-acre stretch of public land along Highway 139 south of Rangely holds Fremont and Ute rock art panels, some close to a thousand years old, reachable from marked pull-offs.
Read note ->History and culture - Routt County
Coal and the railroad shaped the towns of the Yampa Valley
Routt County's towns grew up around ranching, coal, and the arrival of the railroad, which helped shift the county's center to the Yampa Valley and Steamboat Springs.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Deer Trail and the rodeo that may be the world's first
On July 4, 1869, ranch hands near Deer Trail held a bronc-riding contest widely recognized as the world's first rodeo, and the eastern-plains town still rides every summer.
Read note ->Water and land - Washington County
The Akron Station That Taught the Plains to Hold Its Rain
Just outside Akron, a USDA research station has spent more than a century figuring out how to farm on 14 to 18 inches of rain a year.
Read note ->Water and land - Montrose County
The Gunnison Tunnel: why the Montrose valley is farmland
A 5.8-mile tunnel bored under Vernal Mesa from 1905 to 1909 still carries Gunnison River water that turns the dry Uncompahgre Valley into Montrose's farm country.
Read note ->History and culture - Sedgwick County
The South Platte River Trail byway loops through Sedgwick County's frontier past
A short state-designated scenic and historic byway near Julesburg follows the old westward route past Fort Sedgwick and a Pony Express station site.
Read note ->History and culture - Pueblo County
Why Pueblo Is Called the Home of Heroes
Four Medal of Honor recipients came from one Colorado steel town, and Pueblo built two downtown spots to honor them.
Read note ->History and culture - Kit Carson County
Burlington's Old Town Museum is a walkable village of restored plains buildings
The Old Town Museum in Burlington gathers restored turn-of-the-century buildings on one historic site, giving a close look at early life on Colorado's plains.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument honors the 10th Mountain Division
Camp Hale, just over the divide from Summit County, was the World War II training ground for the Army's mountain troops and is now a national monument managed by the Forest Service.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Florence sits on one of Colorado's earliest oil stories
The area around Florence in Fremont County was an early Colorado oil field, and that history is one part of how the town took shape.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
Fort Lyon, near Las Animas, is where Kit Carson died
Fort Lyon, east of Las Animas near the mouth of the Purgatoire River, was a frontier army post where Kit Carson died in 1868, and it later became a veterans hospital and a national cemetery.
Read note ->History and culture - Garfield County
Glenwood Springs grew up around its hot springs
The mineral hot springs at Glenwood Springs were known to the Ute people long before the town, and that water is a central part of why the place grew where it did.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
How Huerfano County got its name from a lonely butte
Huerfano County, the Huerfano River, and the area's Spanish name all trace back to a solitary volcanic butte north of Walsenburg that early Spanish travelers called El Huerfano, 'the orphan.'
Read note ->History and culture - Routt County
How Steamboat Springs got its name
Steamboat Springs is named for a mineral spring whose chugging sound reminded early travelers of a steamboat engine, a sound later quieted by the railroad.
Read note ->History and culture - Gunnison County
How the Gunnison name landed on the river, county, and town
The river, county, and town of Gunnison all carry the name of Captain John W. Gunnison, a U.S. Army surveyor who passed through during an 1853 railroad survey.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
Red Rocks was a Denver park before it was a famous stage
Denver bought the Red Rocks land in the late 1920s and built its amphitheatre with Depression-era work crews, opening it in 1941.
Read note ->History and culture - Saguache County
Saguache wears its 1874 main street and two museums on one slow walk
The county seat carries a Ute name, a 4th Street commercial core that grew from the town's 1874 founding, and two museums you can walk between in an afternoon.
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