Tag
ranching
14 Porch Notes tagged “ranching,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - El Paso County
Rock Ledge Ranch adds a lived-in layer to Garden of the Gods
Beside Garden of the Gods, Rock Ledge Ranch tells the lived-in story of the land — Native presence, homesteading, ranching, and resort-era estates.
Read note ->History and culture - Custer County
Custer County started with silver and settled into ranching
Silver Cliff and nearby camps grew from an 1870s mining rush, and when the ore played out the Wet Mountain Valley turned to hay and cattle.
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 - 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 - Lincoln County
The Lincoln County Free Fair & Rodeo in Hugo
Late each summer, the county's ranching and 4-H families gather at the Hugo fairgrounds for livestock shows, exhibits, a parade, and a rodeo.
Read note ->History and culture - Jackson County
Walden's Never Summer Rodeo: North Park's Biggest Weekend
Each June, Walden hosts a pro rodeo that has run for more than 80 years and pulls the whole valley into one long ranching celebration.
Read note ->History and culture - Gunnison County
Cattlemen's Days, the rodeo Gunnison has run since 1900
Each July, Gunnison stages Cattlemen's Days, a working-ranch rodeo it traces back to 1900 and bills as Colorado's oldest.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
Snowmass Village began as a ranching valley, then a ski resort
The Town of Snowmass Village grew from ranchland in the Brush Creek valley after a ski area opened in the 1960s, and it later incorporated as its own home rule town.
Read note ->History and culture - Jackson County
Walden's pioneer museum lives inside an 1882 log cabin
The North Park Pioneer Museum fills an 1880s log cabin with three floors of artifacts that explain how this high basin became ranch country.
Read note ->History and culture - Eagle County
Gypsum is one of Eagle County's older incorporated towns
Down the valley near the county's western edge, Gypsum was incorporated in the early 1900s and kept a working, western character distinct from the resort towns upriver.
Read note ->History and culture - San Miguel County
Norwood and Wright's Mesa: the ranching side of San Miguel County
On the county's drier west end, Norwood sits on Wright's Mesa, a ranching and farming area very different from the resort towns around Telluride.
Read note ->History and culture - Grand County
Kremmling grew where the river, the ranches, and the railroad met
Kremmling started as a store and became Grand County's shipping point when the Moffat railroad arrived, anchored by ranching in lower Middle Park.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
The Holden/Marolt site shows Aspen's mining and ranching side by side
On Aspen's edge, the Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum sits on a silver-era ore works that later became a working ranch, telling both stories in one place.
Read note ->History and culture - La Plata County
Ignacio once shipped Depression-era turkeys east by rail
A historic Ignacio building recalls a Depression-era turkey-packing cooperative that shipped birds raised on local farms east by rail, part of La Plata County's farming and ranching backbone.
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