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Mining towns and railroads, landmarks and museums, festivals, food, and the local-color stories that make each corner of Colorado make sense.
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Broomfield's library is named for Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who came to its dedication
Broomfield's public library carries the name of First Lady Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who attended its July 1963 dedication alongside General Eisenhower.
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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.
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Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument lies just north over Tennessee Pass
North of Leadville over Tennessee Pass, Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument protects a World War II mountain-training site and lands that remain culturally important to the Ute people.
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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.
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Cathy Fromme Prairie protects a rare shortgrass view of Fort Collins
Cathy Fromme Prairie holds a rare pre-settlement shortgrass landscape on south Fort Collins, with wetlands, wildlife, and a raptor overlook.
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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.
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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.
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Dillon's lakeside amphitheater makes the reservoir a summer stage
On the north shore of Dillon Reservoir, an open-air amphitheater and a high-altitude marina turn a few short summer weeks into the town's brightest season.
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Eagle's Nest ties the North Fork Poudre to the Laramie Foothills
Eagle's Nest Open Space near Livermore is Larimer's quiet foothills side: the North Fork Poudre, short trails, and a century-old golden-eagle nest.
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Fort Morgan's Rainbow Arch Bridge has stood over the South Platte for a century
Fort Morgan's Rainbow Arch Bridge is a National Register-listed bridge over the South Platte River with a long local history.
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Francisco Fort Museum: La Veta grew up around Colorado's last original adobe fort
La Veta's Francisco Fort Museum sits inside an 1862 adobe trading post that the town grew up around, the last original adobe fort still standing in Colorado.
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Friday Nights Under the Stars at CU's Sommers-Bausch Observatory
On clear Friday nights when CU classes are in session, anyone can walk up to the Sommers-Bausch Observatory and look through a 20-inch telescope for free.
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Georgetown's Christmas Market keeps an old-world December alive
Georgetown's December market brings roasted chestnuts, wagon rides, carolers, and a Santa Lucia procession to its historic streets.
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Go Underground at the Phoenix Gold Mine
A family-run mine above Idaho Springs walks you into a real gold tunnel and lets you keep whatever you pan out of the creek.
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Golden grew as a supply town, not a mining camp
Golden was founded during the 1859 gold rush as a supply and transportation hub for miners heading into the mountains, and it took its name from early settler Tom Golden, not from gold itself.
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Grand County is named for a river that no longer goes by that name
Grand County took its name from the Grand River, the old name for the upper Colorado River that begins within its borders.
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Healy House and Dexter Cabin show Leadville's Victorian boom up close
The Healy House Museum and Dexter Cabin in Leadville are History Colorado heritage sites that preserve the Victorian-era homes of the silver boom.
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In Meeker, a free museum sits inside the army cabins that started the town
Meeker's free White River Museum fills two 1880s log cabins built as army officers' quarters, opening a door to the 1879 Meeker Incident and the Ute history beneath the town.
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Julesburg moved four times - and one version was called the Wickedest City in the West
The town anchoring Sedgwick County has been built and rebuilt four times, and one short-lived end-of-track version earned the nickname Wickedest City in the West.
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Lafayette and Louisville grew up on coal, not gold
The eastern Boulder County towns of Lafayette, Louisville, Superior, and Marshall began as coal-mining communities, a very different heritage from the gold and silver camps in the mountains.
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Longmont began as a planned colony organized in Chicago
Longmont began in the early 1870s as the Chicago-Colorado Colony, a planned town funded by selling memberships to settlers.
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Mayflower Mill: Silverton's ore mill still set up to run
Two miles outside Silverton, the Mayflower Mill keeps its original 1930 ore-processing machinery in place, and the historical society opens it for self-guided summer tours.
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Mile High Flea Market: Colorado's original open-air market in Henderson
A weekend institution in Henderson that has run since 1976, spreading 80 acres of vendors, food, music, and kids' rides across Adams County.
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Monte Vista's Ski Hi Stampede has run since 1919
Monte Vista's Ski Hi Stampede, billed as Colorado's oldest pro rodeo, has gathered the San Luis Valley each July since 1919.
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