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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 old town hall in Silver Cliff is now a museum
Silver Cliff's historic 1870s town hall and firehouse on Main Street holds the town's museum, where the county's mining-era story is kept.
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The Pioneers Museum lives in the old 1903 county courthouse
The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, the free regional history museum, occupies the historic 1903 El Paso County Courthouse in downtown Colorado Springs.
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The Plains Conservation Center preserves shortgrass prairie in Aurora
The Plains Conservation Center in southeast Aurora protects shortgrass prairie and keeps replica homestead and tipi sites that show late-1800s life on the plains.
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The powerhouse above Bridal Veil Falls is a piece of electrical history
The Smuggler-Union (Bridal Veil) hydroelectric powerhouse perched above Telluride's Bridal Veil Falls is tied to the early use of alternating-current power for mining.
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The Pueblo Chile is a point of local pride and its own festival
The Pueblo chile grown on the farms around the city anchors the annual Chile & Frijoles Festival downtown, a community event run by the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce.
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The Pueblo Levee Murals: A Flood Wall That Became Miles of Paint
The concrete flood walls along Pueblo's Arkansas River carry a decades-long mural project that Guinness once recognized as the world's longest painting.
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The railroad helped move Bent County's seat from Boggsville to Las Animas
Bent County's seat sat at Boggsville for a time in the early 1870s, moved more than once, and ended up at the railroad town that grew into today's Las Animas — an example of how a rail line could pick the winners among early plains towns.
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The railroad spur that ran on Pagosa Springs timber
A narrow-gauge line tied to the Denver and Rio Grande once reached Pagosa Springs, and the lumber it hauled out shaped the town's early economy.
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The Rawlings Heritage Center is where Bent County keeps its story indoors
The John W. Rawlings Heritage Center in Las Animas gathers Bent County's history under one roof, from an early telephone exchange to the first bank, making it the indoor companion to the county's outdoor history sites.
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The Reiling Gold Dredge is a preserved relic of French Gulch
Above Breckenridge in French Gulch sits the sunken hull of the Reiling Gold Dredge, a machine that mined gold from the streambed in the early 1900s.
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The Riverwalk put the Arkansas River back in downtown Pueblo
The Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo is a downtown waterway built where the river was diverted after the 1921 flood, run by a public authority and free to walk year-round.
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The Royal Gorge is narrow enough that two railroads once fought over it
The deep, tight Royal Gorge canyon on the Arkansas River had room for only one rail line, and the fight over that route is a real part of Fremont County's history.
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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.
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The Spanish Peaks and their stone dikes are the county's landmark
The twin Spanish Peaks and the long stone walls radiating from them are a well-known geologic feature in Huerfano County, and the Highway of Legends byway runs through the country around them.
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The Star on the Rock: Castle Rock's 1936 beacon of hope
A star raised on the butte during the Depression still lights up over Castle Rock every winter, tended by the fire department and switched on each year at the chamber's Starlighting.
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The state bug lab in Palisade
Palisade is home to a state-run insectary that raises beneficial insects to fight pests, a working facility born from a 1940s threat to the valley's orchards.
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The Tabor Opera House tells Leadville's silver-boom story in one building
The 1879 Tabor Opera House in Leadville was built by silver magnate Horace Tabor and is a contributing landmark within the Leadville National Historic Landmark District.
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The TANK: a Rangely water tank that sings
An old steel water tank outside Rangely became a sound chamber so unusual that musicians fly in to record inside it.
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The town of Dillon was moved to make room for its reservoir
The Dillon you see today sits in a new spot because the old town was relocated in the 1960s when Denver Water built Dillon Reservoir over the original site.
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The town of Ignacio and the Southern Ute heritage around it
Ignacio, in southern La Plata County, is named for the Ute leader Chief Ignacio and sits at the heart of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe's homeland — history best learned from the Tribes themselves.
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The town of Marble and the stone in the Lincoln Memorial
Marble, a small town in northern Gunnison County, grew around the Yule marble quarry, whose stone was used in the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknowns.
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The Tumbleweed Fair & Rodeo is Cheyenne County's big week each July
Each July the Cheyenne County Tumbleweed Fair & Rodeo fills the Cheyenne Wells fairgrounds with rodeo, 4-H and FFA shows, a carnival, and the county's whole community.
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The Ute Indian Museum tells the Ute story of the Uncompahgre Valley
Just south of Montrose, the Ute Indian Museum is a History Colorado site on land tied to Ute leader Ouray and his wife Chipeta, and it is the place to learn the Uncompahgre Valley's Ute history.
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The Ute Mountain Tribal Park protects cliff dwellings the tribe shares on its own terms
South of Mesa Verde, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe protects ancient cliff dwellings and pueblo sites in Mancos Canyon, where access is by tribal-guided tour only.
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