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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 Ute Mountain Ute Tribe is a sovereign neighbor in this county
Part of Montezuma County is the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, a sovereign tribal nation centered at Towaoc, with its own government and its own rules for visitors.
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The Ute people and their trails across Mesa County
Long before the Grand Valley's towns, the Ute people lived in and traveled across what is now Mesa County, and some of their trails are documented at official heritage sites.
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The Ute-Ulay Mine and the ghost camps explain Hinsdale's high country
Silver and lead mines like the Ute-Ulay, plus vanished camps such as Capitol City, are why roads and ruins reach so far up Hinsdale County's gulches.
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The West Elks wine trail runs through some of the highest vineyards in the country
Between Hotchkiss and Paonia, the West Elks AVA grows Riesling, Pinot Noir, and other cool-climate grapes at elevations that rank among the highest vineyards in North America.
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The Wheeler Opera House is a silver-era landmark the city now owns
Built by Jerome B. Wheeler during Aspen's silver boom, the Wheeler Opera House survived the bust and is now a venue owned and run by the City of Aspen.
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The wild donkeys that wander Cripple Creek all summer
A small herd of free-roaming donkeys, tied to Cripple Creek's gold-mining past, walks the town's streets each summer under the care of the Two Mile High Club.
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The wild horse range north of Grand Junction
The Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range near Grand Junction is one of a small number of areas set aside under federal law specifically to protect wild horses.
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This is potato country, and a research center sits at its center
Rio Grande County is part of the high-altitude San Luis Valley potato region, supported by Colorado State University's research center and Extension office in the valley.
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This was Ute homeland, and it still is Ute country
Archuleta County lies within long-held Ute homeland, and the 1873 Brunot Agreement is part of the difficult history of how those lands changed hands.
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Thornton and Northglenn were built as planned postwar suburbs
Several Adams County cities, including Thornton and Northglenn, grew from planned subdivisions laid out by developers in the postwar boom, not from old town centers.
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Those gravel ridges along the rivers are old gold-dredge tailings
Long piles of rounded gravel along the Swan River, French Gulch, and the Blue are leftovers from early-1900s gold dredging, and the county is restoring some of these lands.
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Three museums, one regional history
The Museums of Western Colorado run several heritage sites around Grand Junction and Fruita that together tell the valley's human and natural story.
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Tigiwon Community House recalls the Mount of the Holy Cross pilgrimages
Above Minturn, the log Tigiwon Community House was built during the Depression era and tied to religious pilgrimages to view the Mount of the Holy Cross.
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Twin Lakes village is a preserved 1800s mountain town
The Twin Lakes Historic District and the nearby Interlaken resort preserve a late-1800s mountain village and lake-side hotel that grew up on the road between Leadville and Aspen.
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Under a Wray Cornfield, an Ice Age Bison Hunt
A rancher's bones turned out to be one of the oldest bison hunts in Colorado, and the Wray Museum is where you can stand close to it.
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Vail started with a seven-hour climb and a view of the treeless Back Bowls
Vail grew into one of the largest single ski mountains in North America, and the story starts with a 1957 climb to a ridge above a string of wide, treeless bowls.
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Victor: the gold district's quieter, lived-in twin
A few miles from Cripple Creek, Victor is a walkable 1890s gold-boom town where brick streets, Lowell Thomas's hometown museum, and an overlook onto old and modern mining still tell the story.
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Visiting the Air Force Academy While the Chapel Is Wrapped Up
A new visitor center outside the North Gate, an overlook above Colorado Springs, and a free planetarium keep the Air Force Academy worth a stop even while its famous chapel is under repair.
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Walden's moose came from a 1970s reintroduction in North Park
The moose now common around Walden trace to a state wildlife project that released moose into North Park in the late 1970s, and nearby State Forest State Park is known as the moose viewing capital of Colorado.
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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.
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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.
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Walk Inside an 1891 Silver Mine on Creede's Amethyst Vein
The Last Chance Mine near Creede lets you walk inside a real 1891 silver mine and see purple amethyst still in the rock wall.
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Walk Old Town's brick blocks and you may be reading Disneyland's first sketches
Some of the Old Town Fort Collins buildings researchers tie to Disneyland's Main Street are still standing, so a slow walk down Linden Street is a way to see the references in person.
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Walk Through the 1894 Jail a Famous Denver Architect Designed
Cheyenne Wells keeps a brick Romanesque jail from 1894, designed by Colorado's first licensed architect and now open as a small museum.
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