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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
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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Fraser wears 'Icebox of the Nation' like a badge
Fraser keeps recording the coldest overnight low in the lower 48, and the town has turned that reputation into part of its character.
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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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Frisco's name and museum come from its railroad and mining past
Frisco grew as a silver-mining and railroad town in the late 1800s, and the Frisco Historic Park & Museum keeps that story in a cluster of original old buildings.
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From Fitzsimons Army Hospital to the Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora's busy medical campus grew out of an Army tuberculosis hospital that once held the largest building in Colorado.
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Garden of the Gods is a free city park, by deed
Garden of the Gods is a city-owned park in Colorado Springs that the Perkins family deeded to the city in 1909 on the condition it stay free to the public forever.
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Garfield County is named for a U.S. president
Garfield County was created in 1883 and named for President James A. Garfield, with Glenwood Springs as its county seat.
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Georgetown and Silver Plume are a protected piece of mining history
The towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume and the railroad between them form a federally recognized historic district tied to Colorado's silver-mining past.
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Georgetown's Christmas Market keeps an old-world December alive
For two December weekends, Georgetown's historic streets fill with roasted chestnuts, horse-drawn wagons, and a children's Santa Lucia procession at an event Historic Georgetown has run for more than six decades.
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Gilman, a ghost town clinging to a cliff above the Eagle River
The abandoned company town of Gilman clings to Battle Mountain above the Eagle River, a striking sight from US 24 with a rich mining and cleanup story.
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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.
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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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Gold Hill and Colorado's first mining districts began in Boulder County
Gold Hill, organized in 1859, was one of Colorado's earliest mining camps, and the small mountain towns of Boulder County still trace back to a handful of named mining districts.
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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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Gothic: a silver ghost town turned research station
Gothic, north of Crested Butte, boomed as a silver camp, emptied into a ghost town, and was reborn as the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
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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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Grand Junction's historic downtown and old neighborhoods
Grand Junction runs a historic preservation program, and landmarks like the old railroad depot, the Avalon Theatre, and the North Seventh Street residential district recall the early town.
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Grand Lake is a lakeside town with a surprising yacht club
The town of Grand Lake sits beside a natural mountain lake and is home to a high-altitude yacht club with roots in the early 1900s.
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Grand Lake's 1881 Boardwalk and Its Summer Musical Stage
Grand Lake pairs a wooden Old West boardwalk along Grand Avenue with a summer repertory theater that draws more than 1,200 actors to audition each year.
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Guffey, the Mining Town That Elects a Cat
A former gold camp in Park County's south end keeps a famous, honorary tradition of electing animals as mayor.
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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.
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Haxtun's Corn Festival: a September tradition more than a century old
Each September the small Phillips County town of Haxtun throws a Corn Festival that has run for more than a hundred years, with a downtown parade and a full day of harvest celebration.
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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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Highlands Ranch grew on a real ranch, and the mansion is still there
Before it was a suburb, Highlands Ranch was a working cattle ranch, and its historic mansion is now owned by the metro district and open to the public.
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