Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center
Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center The Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center preserves the adobe army post the U.S. Army built in the San Luis Valley in 1858, with the Sangre de Cristo Mountains rising behind its parade ground. Run by History Colorado, it lets you walk the grounds and step inside five original […]
Royal Gorge Route Railroad
Royal Gorge Route Railroad The Royal Gorge Route Railroad takes you deep into the Royal Gorge in Cañon City on a restored mid-century train, with the Arkansas River rushing beside the tracks and granite walls rising more than 1,000 feet overhead. You can ride in a glass-topped Vista Dome, eat a meal cooked on board, […]
Mount Falcon Park
Mount Falcon Park Mount Falcon Park is a Jefferson County Open Space park in the foothills above Morrison where the trails lead to real castle ruins. Hike to the stone shell of John Brisben Walker’s burned mansion, find the marble cornerstone of a never-built Summer White House for U.S. presidents, and climb a wooden lookout […]
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum fills Leadville’s old Victorian high school with glittering gold, glowing minerals and a full-size replica of an underground hard-rock mine. It’s the only national mining museum with a Congressional charter, and it tells the story of the people and the […]
Tabor Opera House
Tabor Opera House The Tabor Opera House is the three-story brick theater that silver king Horace Tabor built on Harrison Avenue in Leadville in 1879, in just 100 days. More than 145 years later it is still the cultural heart of North America’s highest incorporated city, with live shows, films and guided tours through a […]
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum tells the story of the Pikes Peak region inside the grand 1903 El Paso County Courthouse, the domed clock tower you can spot all over downtown. Admission is always free, so it’s an easy stop for history buffs, families and anyone who loves a beautiful old […]
NCAR Mesa Lab
NCAR Mesa Lab The NCAR Mesa Lab is the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s striking pink-sandstone-colored tower complex on a mesa above south Boulder, with the Flatirons rising right behind it. Its Visitor Center is free and open nearly every day, with hands-on weather and climate exhibits, art galleries and a short trail out the […]
Hotel de Paris Museum
Hotel de Paris Museum The Hotel de Paris Museum is a French inn from Colorado’s silver boom, preserved almost exactly as it looked in the 1890s on 6th Street in Georgetown. About 90 percent of the original furnishings survive, so a visit feels less like a museum and more like checking into Louis Dupuy’s hotel. […]
Miramont Castle
Miramont Castle Miramont Castle is the turreted Victorian mansion tucked into the hillside above Manitou Springs, built in 1895 as the private home of a French-born Catholic priest. Today the Manitou Springs Historical Society runs it as a museum, with a self-guided tour through four floors and a tearoom serving multi-course Victorian teas. Miramont Castle […]
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site
Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site brings back the adobe trading post that once stood guard on the Santa Fe Trail along the Arkansas River, eight miles east of La Junta. Walk the prairie path to its thick earthen walls and you step into the busy crossroads where traders, […]