PARACHUTE/BATTLEMENT MESA RIFLE AREA RIFLE/SILT AREA SILT/ NEW CASTLE AREA GLENWOOD SPRINGS AREA CARBONDALE AREA

4 RIFLE ARCH 8 RIFLE MTN. PARK/COMMUNITY 12 HIGHLAND CEMETERY AND 15 DOC HOLLIDAY MUSEUM 19 MAIN STREET CARBONDALE WHERE: North on Hwy 13 approximately 7 miles, HOUSE (CCC CAMP) VULCAN MINING MEMORIAL WHERE: Basement, Bullock’s, WHERE: Intersection of Main marked trail head with parking on right WHERE: 13885 County Road 217 (End of State Hwy WHERE: Take Castle Valley Blvd. to Club House Dr. to 732 Grand Ave., Street Carbondale WHAT: Natural Rock Arch on the Hogback 325—north of Rifle Falls Fish Hatchery) Cemetery Rd. (Lakota Ranch, north of City Market) Glenwood Springs and Hwy. 133, across WEBSITE: www.riflechamber.com WHAT: World class rock climbing extending for 2.5 WHEN: Available all day, every day WHEN: Store hours from City Market. CONTACT: Rifle Chamber miles in a spectacular boxed canyon. Hiking COST: Free WHAT: The Doc Holliday TIME: Access anytime of Commerce and ice caves. Visit the Rifle Community WHAT: The cemetery was established in 1888 and museum is a COST: Free (970) 625-2085 House that was built in the 1930s by the cemetery map is available at Town Hall, the satellite location WHAT: Historic buildings include The Dinkel Civilian Conservation Corp. Chamber of Commerce and the Historical for Glenwood Building, The IOOF Hall also known as the WEBSITE: www.rifleco.org/index.aspx?NID=91 Museum. The 1964 Vulcan Mine Memorial Springs Historical Rebekah Lodge, The Village Smithy and The CONTACT: (970) 665-6570 is also on display. Society’s Frontier Crystal Theatre to name but a few. For a WEBSITE: www.newcastlecolorado.org Museum and is walking tour of historic main street, link to 2 SETTLEMENT RESERVOIRS located in the the Mt. Sopris Historical Society. WHERE: See website for directions or stop at the 9 COULTER LAKE GUEST RANCH basement of WEBSITE: www.mtsoprishistoricalsociety.com Bullocks store Parachute Information Center during WHERE: 80 County Road 273 at 732 Grand Ave. The current show is the summer. 20 HILLCREST CEMETERY WHEN: Open year round “Doc Holliday-Life, Legend and Lore” WHEN: Mid-June to October WHAT: Guest ranch featuring historic cabins, and includes objects associated with Doc WHERE: Take Road 101 off of Meadow Wood Drive, COST: Free horseback riding, hunting and fishing. Holliday as well as period artifacts. Carbondale. Hillcrest Cemetery is at the top WHAT: Seven reservoirs at 10,000 feet south of See our website for more information, WEBSITE: www.glenwoodhistory.com of White Hill and situated about one half Battlement Mesa, constructed in 1892. The mile directly in back of Saint Mary’s Church. photo gallery, rates, and history of the ranch. CONTACT: (970) 945-4448 reservoirs were renovated by the National WEBSITE: www.coulterlake.com TIME: Open access Forest Service and are stocked with native CONTACT: (970) 625-1473 17 LINWOOD (PIONEER) CEMETERY COST: Free cutthroat trout. WHAT: Traditional western cemetery includes WHERE: Trailhead begins at 12th and Bennett in WEBSITE: www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_ 14 OLD TOWN HALL AND tombstones from some of the area’s original DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5186529.pdf Glenwood Springs JAIL HISTORICAL MUSEUM pioneer families. CONTACT: Rifle Ranger District, White River National WHEN: Daily, year round CONTACT: Town of Carbondale Parks and Public Space 4th Street Forest (970) 625-2371 WHERE: TIME: Daylight hours (970) 963-2733 WHEN: Tuesdays & Thursdays during summer, COST: Free, donations encouraged 5 RIFLE HERITAGE CENTER MUSEUM or by appointment 3 MCKAY-WASSAM HISTORIC PARK WHAT: Moderate 1/3 mile hike to Glenwood’s 21 THE THOMPSON HOUSE MUSEUM WHERE: 337 East Ave. COST: Free, donations accepted oldest cemetery where the community’s AND HOUSE WHERE: River Valley Ranch Drive off of Hwy. 133. WHEN: Monday - Friday WHAT: Housed in the former Town Hall/Fire pioneers are buried, including Doc Holliday WHERE: 259 Cardinal Way, Parachute Take second right at North Bridge Drive. TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Department, the museum includes historical and Kid Curry. A walking tour guide is WHEN: Year round access to the Park artifacts from the mining and ranching Parking is available on the Museum grounds. COST: $5 adults, $4 seniors, $3 children (6-12), available at the Frontier Museum or at the communities that founded New Castle. TIME: Saturdays from 2-5pm in the summers and COST: Free children under 6 free donation tube in the cemetery. WEBSITE: www.newcastlecolorado.org CONTACT: (970) 945-4448 early fall. Please call in advance. WHAT: Follow the story of Rifle’s past and changes COST: $10 in lifestyles, businesses, and industry. 18 CARDIFF COKE OVENS WHAT: 1887 brick ranch house with original artifacts CONTACT: (970) 625-4862 and décor. Newly listed on the National WHERE: 2 miles south of Glenwood Springs, Register of Historical Places. 11 CAYTON RANGER STATION take Midland Avenue south at 27th Street WEBSITE: www.mtsoprishistoricalsociety.com 6 RIFLE DOWNTOWN WHERE: Approximately 20 miles south of Silt to Airport Road CONTACT: (970) 963-7041 HISTORIC DISTRICT See website for directions. WHEN: Daily, year round WHERE: Downtown Rifle WHEN: Mid-June to October TIME: Daylight hours WHAT: Self-Guided Walking Tour available at COST: Free COST: Free the Rifle Information Center. A wonderful WHAT: Early period Forest Service ranger station WHAT: Historic coke oven remnants from 1800s walk through time; with many downtown WEBSITE: www.caytonrangerstation.org coal mining industry, which are on the buildings being well over 100 years old. CONTACT: Rifle Ranger District, White River National National Register of Historic Places. Elk Peaks Photography CONTACT: (970) 625-2085 Forest (970) 625-2371 CONTACT: (970) 945-4448

REDSTONE AREA MARBLE AREA BASALT AREA ASPEN AREA EAGLE COUNTY/LEADVILLE AREA

23 REDSTONE COKE OVENS 28 MARBLE MUSEUM 36 WHEELER-STALLARD MUSEUM 40 WHERE: Located along Highway 133 at the south WHERE: 412 W. Main Street HISTORIC WHERE: 620 W. Bleeker Street, Aspen AND entrance to Redstone WHEN: June thru August WHEN: Year round WHERE: 912 Harrison Ave., Leadville, CO WHEN: Accessible year round TIME: Thursday – Sunday, 11:00 to 4:00 SITE MAP TIME: Tuesday – Saturday, WHEN: Open Late May – October; 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. COST: Free COST: $5 adults, juniors and seniors $3, except holidays COST: History members free, adults $6, WHAT: Bee-hive shaped Ovens used to convert children and members free The Four Rivers Historical Alliance is COST: $10 person, seniors $5.50, children (6-12) $4.50, coal to coke for CF&I Company, 1900-1909. WHAT: Built as a school house in 1912, the museum comprised of museums and historical $8 seniors, children under 6 free Recently restored to show original design, features exhibits on Marble history and societies from Aspen to Marble to Eagle 12 and under free WHAT: The Healy House is a restored 1878 Greek and with interpretive signage to explain the the Colorado Yule Marble Company which WHAT: Historic house Revival clapboard home with period to Parachute, Colorado. coking process and importance to Redstone. provide stone for the Lincoln Memorial and 32 LUCHSINGER HALFWAY HOUSE museum & temporary displays. The Dexter Cabin, built as a WEBSITE: www.redstonecolorado.com/living_history.html the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. exhibit gallery hunting lodge in 1879 has a humble log WHERE: 120 Riverside Drive WEBSITE: www.marblehistory.org WEBSITE: www.aspenhistory.org cabin exterior and a surprising lavish interior. WHAT: Historic halfway house for travelers. This 24 REDSTONE INN CONTACT: (970) 963-9815 CONTACT: (970) 925-3721 Formal gardens. somewhat derelict building is located on WHERE: 82 Redstone Blvd. WEBSITE: www.historycolorado.org/museums/healy- private property owned by descendants of house-museum-dexter-cabin WHEN: Open year round 30 MARBLE CITY STATE BANK BUILDING the Luchsinger family and can be viewed 37 HOLDEN MAROLT RANCHING CONTACT: (719) 486-0487 WHAT: Full-service hotel and inn originally built in WHERE: Follow CR3 (Park St.) to corner of 1st and Main. from Riverside Drive. (Please respect and AND MINING MUSEUM 1902 to house bachelor workers. Bank building is on the Northwest corner. stay off private property.) WHERE: Marolt Open Space in Aspen, 42 RED CLIFF MUSEUM WEBSITE: www.redstoneinn.com WHEN: Currently the home of The Marble Hub, the trail accessed museum WHERE: Red Cliff Town Hall, 400 Pine Street CONTACT: (970) 963-2526 building is open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., 33 MIDLAND AVENUE WHEN: Mid-June through October WHEN: By appointment, call (970) 827-5303 7 days a week from Memorial Day through AND HOMESTEAD DRIVE TIME: Tuesday - Saturday 25 REDSTONE HISTORY MUSEUM September. TIME: By arrangement WHERE: Downtown Basalt COST: $10 person, $8 seniors, 12 and under free COST: Free COST: Free WHERE: Redstone Boulevard adjacent to the WHEN: Daily, year-round, self-directed walking tour Ranching and mining museum featuring Redstone Park WHAT: Main bank during Marble’s boom years WHAT: Artifacts from Eagle County’s first town and COST: Free WHAT: displays and interactives on mining, mining mining camp. WHEN: Open Summer and Fall (1912 to 1917) and is the only historical processing, lumber mill and ranching, WHAT: Historic structures built primarily in the late CONTACT: (970) 827-5303 COST: Free commercial building remaining in Marble. housed on the grounds of the former It was listed on the National Historic 1800s reflect Basalt’s history as a railroad and WHAT: Original lantern house located at the Coal Holden Lixiviation Plant and Marolt Ranch. Register in 1999 and the restoration was agricultural community, as well as its early ties 43 TIGIWON COMMUNITY HOUSE AND Basin mines west of Redstone. Houses WEBSITE: www.aspenhistory.org completed in 2002. to the Roaring Fork Valley’s mining industry. NOTCH MOUNTAIN SHELTER artifacts depicting the history of Redstone WEBSITE: www.basaltheritage.org for walking tour map CONTACT: (970) 925-3721 and area mining and coking activities. WHERE: From Minturn go 2.5 miles south on US 24, 31 CRYSTAL MILL (DEAD HORSE MILL) CONTACT: Pick up a complimentary copy of the Basalt then 6 miles on Tigiwon Road. WEBSITE: www.redstonecolorado.com Directory the Mid-June to October 30 WHERE: 7 miles east of Marble. Follow CR3 through Basalt Chamber WHEN: 27 REDSTONE CASTLE Marble, past Beaver Lake and up Daniel’s of Commerce COST: Free to visit, Day use rental available at (CLEVEHOLM MANOR) Hill. Take right at fork and proceed past located in the www.recreation.gov Lizard Lake toward Crystal City. Historic lodge available for reunions, WHERE: One mile south of red caboose in WHAT: Road is a 4X4 road and is inaccessible past weddings and parties. Situated near Redstone. Private WHEN: Lions Park, 101 Beaver Lake in the winter. 4X4 tours are trailheads into and gated access. Midland Avenue. available from Marble historic Notch Mountain Shelter. COST: Please see website in the summer. www.fs.fed.us/r2/whiteriver/rangerdistricts/ for updated tour 35 CHAPMAN DAM AND CAMPGROUND WEBSITE: COST: Free 39 INDEPENDENCE GHOST TOWN eagle_holycross/index.shtml times and price WHERE: At Basalt, take Frying Pan Road. Go 29 One of the most Holy Cross Ranger District, White River WHAT: John C. Osgood’s WHAT: miles to Chapman Campground. WHERE: 16 miles east of Aspen on Highway 82 CONTACT: photographed sites National Forest (970) 827-5715 42-room country June - October WHEN: Tours available mid-June - October in the country, the WHEN: estate featuring 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily Crystal Mill (Dead COST: Free to visit, camping fees apply TIME: original fixtures Horse Mill) was built WHAT: Civilian Conservation Corps era dam, COST: Suggested donation of $3 person and furniture. in 1893 just west of fishing, camping WHAT: Mining-era ghost town This is a historical treasure! the mining town of WEBSITE: www.fs.usda.gov/main/whiteriver/home WEBSITE: www.aspenhistory.org WEBSITE: TheRedstoneCastle.com Crystal City. fourrivershistoricalalliance.wordpress.com CONTACT: Aspen-Sopris Ranger District (970) 963-2266 CONTACT: (970) 925-3721 The Four Rivers Historical Alliance is comprised of museums and historical societies from Aspen to Marble to Eagle to Parachute, Colorado.

13 MINER’S MEMORIAL 16 GLENWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY 45 EAGLE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM 44 COLORADO SKI & WHERE: Burning Mountain Park, Main Street WHERE: 1001 Colorado Avenue, Glenwood Springs WHERE: Located in Eagle, Colorado just south of SNOWBOARD MUSEUM WHEN: Available all day, every day WHEN: May – September: Mon – Sat, I-70 at exit 147 WHERE: Vail Parking Structure, 231 S. Frontage Rd East COST: Free October – April: Mon & Thurs - Sat WHEN: Mid-May – Mid-September WHEN: Open daily WHAT: A statue of a coal miner completed by TIME: May – September: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. daily TIME: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. artist Grant Ballin, listing miners killed in October – April: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. COST: Free COST: $2 per person the Vulcan Mine explosion. The statue was COST: $4 Adults WHAT: Eagle County history from Ute territory to donation commissioned by the Town of New Castle (aged 13+), the present day resort community. Museum encouraged in 2004. $3 seniors complex includes railroad caboose, general WHAT: Colorado WEBSITE: www.newcastlecolorado.org (aged 60+), store, blacksmith shop. skiing and $2 children WEBSITE: www.eaglecountyhistoricalsociety.com snowboarding (aged 3-12) CONTACT: (970) 328-6464 history 10 SILT HISTORICAL PARK 22 THE MT. SOPRIS HISTORICAL WHAT: Historic including house Camp Hale’s WHERE: 707 Orchard Avenue SOCIETY LOG CABIN & JAILHOUSE museum World War II Open Tues.- Sat. from May to October Corner of Weant Blvd. and Hwy. 133 WHEN: WHERE: with exhibits 10th Mountain TIME: 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. TIME: Mon-Fri mornings or by appointment on the history of Glenwood Springs and Division skiing COST: Free, donations appreciated COST: Free Garfield County, including Doc Holliday, Kid soldiers, WHAT: Eight buildings used during the early 1900s WHAT: Historical museum located in an 1887 log Curry, Theodore Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill Cody, historic resorts in the Silt area. Furnished with artifacts and cabin. The town jail house is situated directly mining and minerals, ranching, Ute Indians and Hall of displays of the period. Tour guide available. behind the log cabin. and much more. Fame. WEBSITE: www.silthistoricalpark.com WEBSITE: www.mtsoprishistoricalsociety.org WEBSITE: www.glenwoodhistory.com WEBSITE: skimuseum.net CONTACT: (970) 876-5801 CONTACT: (970) 963-7041 CONTACT: (970) 945-4448 CONTACT: (970) 476-1876

Colorado River Eagle River

9 45 8 14 EAGLE 7 12 VAIL 44 13 NEW CASTLE 15 6 10 7 RIFLE MINTURN 43 5 16 GLENWOOD SPRINGS WHERE: 5775 Hwy. 325 SILT 17 WHAT: Former Rifle Hydroelectric Plant; Rifle Falls is now a Colorado State Park. Enjoy an easy 4 18 hike to the top to view the falls from above. 42 41 NATIONAL MINING MUSEUM Camping, fishing and picnic grounds are PARACHUTE 3 & HALL OF FAME situated on Rifle Creek. 11 35 RED CLIFF WHERE: 120 West Ninth Street, Leadville WEBSITE: www.parks.state.co.us/parks/riflefalls/Pages/ 1 32 WHEN: Open year round; Summer hours 9 a.m. – RifleFallsHome.aspx 19 5 p.m. daily CONTACT: (970) 625-1607 2 21 COST: Adults $7, Seniors $6, Children (6-12) $3, 34 BASALT 22 20 33 Children under 6 free BATTLEMENT MESA CARBONDALE WHAT: A monument and museum dedicated to Colorado’s colorful mining history. WEBSITE: www.mininghallof fame.org 41 CONTACT: (719) 486-3927 40 36 THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: 24 25 26 LEADVILLE ASPEN Aspen Chamber Resort Association, 23 Aspen Historical Society, REDSTONE 37 27 Town of Basalt, Colorado Ski and BATTLEMENT MESA SCHOOLHOUSE 1 Snowboard Museum, Coulter Lake AND GLOVER CABIN 28 38 SNOWMASS Guest Ranch, Town of Eagle, WHERE: 7235 County Road 300 (Old Stone Quarry Rd.) VILLAGE 39 29 Eagle Chamber of Commerce, WHEN: Daily, year round MARBLE INDEPENDENCE PASS COST: Free 30 (Late May - October) Frontier Historical Society, Mt. Sopris WHAT: The schoolhouse (first room) was built in 1897 Historical Society, National Mining with locally quarried stone. Glover Cabin is Hall of Fame & Museum, New Castle an original homestead building that was moved to the site and is now a museum Historical Society, Redstone Inn, showing pioneer living in the late 1880s to 1900. 31 Rifle Area Chamber of Commerce, CONTACT: (970) 285-9696 for schedule and Rifle Creek Museum Crystal River Roaring Fork River

26 REDSTONE NATIONAL 29 MARBLE MILL SITE PARK 34 ARBANEY BARN & CHARCOAL KILNS 38 ASHCROFT GHOST TOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT WHERE: Turn right at WHERE: Arbaney Park, 600 Elk Run Drive, Basalt WHERE: 11 miles south of Aspen on Castle Creek Rd. WHERE: The village of Redstone, located on the West the fire station WHEN: Daily, year-round WHEN: Tours available mid-June through Labor Day Elk Scenic Byway just off Highway 133 and proceed COST: Free to view. and weekends through September WHEN: Accessible year round one half block WHAT: Restored in 2011, this two-story horse barn TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily WHAT: Historic model industrial village established in to parking was formerly part of Arbaney Ranch and will COST: $5 person, 12 and under free lot. Follow 1899-1903 to accommodate Colorado Fuel and to be a living history museum. The charcoal WHAT: Mining-era ghost town walking Iron’s workers for the Redstone coke industry. kilns, stabilized in 2010 were built in 1884 WEBSITE: www.aspenhistory.org Walking tour guides available at the Redstone tour guide to provide charcoal for Aspen and Leadville CONTACT: (970) 925-3721 Inn and the Redstone History Museum. provided at smelters. The barn and kilns can be viewed entrance. WEBSITE: www.redstonecolorado.com from the exterior only at this time. WHEN: Always open – snow covered in winter. WEBSITE: www.basaltheritage.org COST: Free CONTACT: [email protected] for programming WHAT: Formerly the world’s largest marble finishing or rental information mill at over 1700’. The marble block for the Tomb of the Unknowns was the largest block of marble quarried in the world at that time, circa 1931. The buildings and equipment were largely disassembled for the WWII effort. This site was listed on the National Historic Register in 1979.

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