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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
Lake City and the Alfred Packer story, told plainly
Hinsdale County is tied to the Alfred Packer case from the 1870s, a grim chapter best understood from official and archival sources rather than legend.
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Lake City exists because of mining on land taken from the Ute people
Lake City grew as a mining supply town in the 1870s on land the Ute people were forced to cede, history worth understanding plainly.
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Lamar's gas station built from petrified wood
On Main Street in Lamar, a 1932 service station built from local petrified wood makes a free, two-minute stop where the walls themselves are a geology lesson.
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Larimer Square survived because someone fought to save it
Larimer Square holds Denver's oldest commercial block, saved from urban-renewal demolition in the 1960s and now a protected historic district.
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Leadville is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville tells the story of American mining from a former school building in town.
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Limon is the 'Hub City' because the roads and rails all meet there
Limon earned its 'Hub City' name because Interstate 70 and several U.S. and state highways come together where rail lines once met on the plains.
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Littleton is the Arapahoe County seat, and it started with a flour mill
Littleton grew from Richard Little's 1860s homestead and the Rough and Ready Flour Mill, and it has served as the seat of Arapahoe County government.
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Littleton's Main Street is a Victorian downtown you can walk in an afternoon
Littleton's Main Street Historic District packs brick storefronts, a 1920 town hall turned theater, and seasonal festivals into a few walkable blocks on the National Register.
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LoDo is a protected historic district, not just a nightlife name
Lower Downtown, or LoDo, was declared a Denver historic district in 1988, which is why its old brick warehouses still stand and changes to them are reviewed.
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Long before the towns, Middle Park was Ute hunting ground
The high valley that holds Grand County's towns was a long-used hunting ground and gathering place for Ute people, including the hot springs at Hot Sulphur Springs.
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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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Lookout Mountain holds Buffalo Bill's grave and a wide view
Lookout Mountain, a Denver Mountain Park above Golden, is the site of Buffalo Bill Cody's grave and museum and a sweeping view back over the plains.
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Loveland's Valentine remailing program is a real, long-running tradition
Each February, Loveland runs a Valentine re-mailing program through the post office and chamber of commerce, hand-stamping cards from around the world with a Loveland postmark.
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Lowry Pueblo is a national landmark you can walk up to
Northwest of Cortez, Lowry Pueblo is a designated National Historic Landmark in Canyons of the Ancients, with standing masonry rooms and a Great Kiva you can visit on a developed trail.
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Lulu City is a ghost town at the top of the Colorado River
Lulu City was a short-lived silver-mining town near the Colorado River headwaters, and its ruins now sit inside Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Lyons: a red-sandstone quarry town turned bluegrass home
Lyons quarried the red sandstone you see across CU Boulder, and today its St. Vrain festival grounds draw bluegrass fans from around the country.
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Manassa keeps the birthplace cabin of boxer Jack Dempsey
The town of Manassa in Conejos County is the birthplace of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the 'Manassa Mauler,' and keeps a small museum tied to his early life.
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Manassa was founded by Latter-day Saint pioneers in the late 1870s
The Conejos County town of Manassa was settled in the late 1870s by Latter-day Saint (Mormon) pioneers, giving it a founding story distinct from the valley's older Hispano communities.
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Manassa's Pioneer Days is the town's long-running heritage celebration
Each July the small town of Manassa holds Pioneer Days, a heritage festival rooted in its Latter-day Saint founding, with a parade, rodeo, and fair that draw far more than the town's everyday population.
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Mancos got its name from a river, and built its main street beside it
The town of Mancos takes its name from the nearby Rio de los Mancos, and its historic commercial core grew southeast of the railroad siding, near the river.
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Manitou Springs: a spa town built around its mineral springs
Manitou Springs grew as a Victorian health resort around natural mineral springs, and much of the town is a National Register historic district, with separate local preservation review in the city's own historic districts.
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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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Minturn grew up on the Tennessee Pass rail line
The Denver & Rio Grande's standard-gauge route over Tennessee Pass ran through Minturn and the Eagle River valley, and that railroad is why the town is shaped the way it is.
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