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History and culture
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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History and culture - June 10, 2026
The 1877 Hinsdale County Courthouse is still doing its original job
Lake City's 1877 courthouse is described as Colorado's oldest courthouse still used for its original purpose, and it is the seat of county government today.
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The 1910 Logan County Courthouse and its Carara paintings reward a downtown stop
Sterling's domed 1910 courthouse is a free, walkable downtown landmark with a restored marble-and-oak rotunda and ten Eugene Carara paintings of northeastern Colorado history.
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The 1933 Castlewood Dam break still shapes Cherry Creek
An old irrigation dam in Douglas County failed in 1933 and sent a flood down Cherry Creek toward Denver, a story that later shaped flood control on the creek.
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The A.R. Mitchell Museum fills a 1906 department store on Main Street
Trinidad's museum of Western art honors local painter Arthur Roy Mitchell and sits inside the historic Jamieson department store building in the heart of downtown.
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The Adams County Fair and county museum keep the farm story alive
The Adams County Fair and the Adams County Museum at Riverdale Regional Park carry the county's farming and ranching heritage into the present.
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The Adobe Chapel at Viejo San Acacio, Often Called Colorado's Oldest Church
An adobe mission chapel that Hispano settlers raised near the Culebra River in the 1850s, still gathering its community for Mass and a yearly feast day.
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The Alpine Tunnel was a narrow-gauge railroad bore under the Continental Divide
Above St. Elmo, the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad drove the Alpine Tunnel through the Continental Divide in the early 1880s, and the abandoned railbed and tunnel are now a protected historic district reaching into Chaffee County.
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The Alpine Tunnel: a narrow-gauge railroad under the Divide
The Alpine Tunnel Historic District preserves the railbed and stone tunnel where a narrow-gauge line once crossed the Continental Divide into Gunnison County.
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The ancient sky-watchers of Chimney Rock
The ruins at Chimney Rock were a high-elevation Ancestral Puebloan village tied to the Chaco world, built where two stone spires frame events in the sky.
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The Argo Mill and Tunnel tell Idaho Springs' gold story
The Argo Mill and Tunnel above Idaho Springs is a preserved gold-era landmark that once drained and processed ore from mines across the district.
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The Aspen Music Festival grew out of that same 1949 summer
The Aspen Music Festival and School traces its start to the 1949 cultural gathering in Aspen and grew into an enduring summer classical music institution.
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The Baca Land Grant No. 4 is older than the county around it
Much of the land around Crestone traces back to a 19th-century land grant to the Baca family, a history now listed on the National Register as a Rural Historic Landscape.
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The Bachelor Loop is a self-guided drive through Creede's ghost towns
The Bachelor Loop is a marked Forest Service driving tour above Creede that visits old mines and the ghost town of Bachelor, with numbered pullouts that explain the silver district.
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The Beaumont Hotel is one of Ouray's landmark 1880s buildings
The Beaumont Hotel, built in the 1880s during Ouray's mining boom and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the town's most recognizable historic buildings.
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The big archaeology museum near Dolores changed its name in 2018
The regional archaeology museum near Dolores, long called the Anasazi Heritage Center, was renamed the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum in 2018.
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The Broomfield Depot Museum is a 1909 train depot moved to a park
Broomfield's local history museum sits in a railroad depot built in 1909, later moved to Zang's Spur Park and run with the help of the Broomfield Historical Society.
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The Brunner Farmhouse is Broomfield's restored 1908 farm home
The yellow Brunner Farmhouse on Midway Boulevard is a restored early-1900s farm home the city keeps as a community gathering place and gardens.
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The Brush Rodeo: a Fourth of July tradition on the plains
Three nights of rodeo over July 2-4 at the Morgan County Fairgrounds in Brush, capped by a parade, free barbecue, mutton bustin', and fireworks on the Fourth.
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The Buena Vista depot is the last intact railroad depot in the county
The 1890s depot in Buena Vista, built for a line in the Denver, South Park & Pacific family, is described as the last remaining intact railroad depot in Chaffee County and a survivor of a town once served by three railroads.
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The Cameron Peak Fire still shapes the land west of Fort Collins
The 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burned a large stretch of Larimer County's high country, and its burn scar continues to affect flooding, roads, and recreation years later.
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The Capitol steps have more than one 'mile high' marker
Denver's nickname comes from sitting about a mile above sea level, and the State Capitol's west steps carry several 'One Mile Above Sea Level' markers from surveys done over the years.
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The Cattlewoman Who Saved a Castle Above Sedalia
Tweet Kimball turned a 1920s Scottish-and-English-styled castle near Sedalia into a working cattle ranch and then protected its land, and you can tour the result by reservation.
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The Central City Opera House and a summer festival with deep roots
The stone Central City Opera House opened in 1878 in Gilpin County's mining boom and was revived in the 1930s into a summer opera festival that still runs.
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The Climax mine on Fremont Pass is a different mining story than silver
High on Fremont Pass at the edge of Lake County, the Climax mine has produced molybdenum for more than a century, a separate chapter from Leadville's silver boom.
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