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Old Colorado

Ghost towns, mining cabins at eleven thousand feet, an old fire lookout, a hotel with a reputation, and the city landmarks that have outlasted everything built around them. The parts of Colorado somebody built by hand and nobody got around to tearing down.

Places:Mayflower Gulch (8)Mestaa'ehehe Mountain (5)Crystal Mill, Marble (4)Estes Park (3)Abbott (2)Colorado State Capitol, Denver (2)Denver (2)Wheat Ridge (2)
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The Boathouse at Last Light — City Park, Denver. The City Park boathouse glowing across a still Ferril Lake with the Denver skyline going pink and gold…
The Boathouse at Last Light
City Park, Denver
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Crystal Mill at First Light — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill catching sunrise above the Crystal River, its timber frame braced on rock…
Crystal Mill at First Light
Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado
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Fire Over the Crystal Mill — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The sky above the Crystal Mill going full ember at sunrise, orange cloud pouring over the…
Fire Over the Crystal Mill
Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado
Little Church on the Prairie — Abbott, Colorado. The Milky Way rising over a lone white church on the plains near Abbott, Colorado, with red light glowing…
Little Church on the Prairie
Abbott, Colorado
The Church Under the Core — Abbott, Colorado. The old Abbott church glowing under the Milky Way core on a moonless night out on the Colorado plains.
The Church Under the Core
Abbott, Colorado
Water Tower Against the Front Range — Arvada, Colorado. The Olde Town Arvada water tower stacked tight against the snow-dusted foothills, with a long lens…
Water Tower Against the Front Range
Arvada, Colorado
Sunset Over the Midway — Berkeley Lake Park, Denver. Sunset burning orange over Berkeley Lake in Denver, with the Lakeside Amusement Park tower and the old…
Sunset Over the Midway
Berkeley Lake Park, Denver
A Wheel That Stopped Turning — Clear creek canyon. An old corral and a wagon wheel that has not turned in decades, half buried in snow in Colorado ranch…
A Wheel That Stopped Turning
Clear creek canyon
The Dome Holds Court — Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado. The gold dome of the Colorado State Capitol holding court over Civic Center Park while the…
The Dome Holds Court
Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado
Every Tree on Holiday Duty — Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado. Every tree in Civic Center Park pulling holiday duty in front of the Colorado State…
Every Tree on Holiday Duty
Colorado State Capitol, Denver, Colorado
Tower of Memories at Dusk — Crown Hill Park, Colorado. The Tower of Memories standing pale against a bruised purple and pink sky at Crown Hill in Wheat…
Tower of Memories at Dusk
Crown Hill Park, Colorado
Crystal Mill in Deep Green — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill surrounded by full summer green, the river running clear and loud through the…
Crystal Mill in Deep Green
Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado
The Mill in High Summer — Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado. The Crystal Mill hemmed in by aspens and deep summer green, the Crystal River running loud and…
The Mill in High Summer
Crystal Mill, Marble, Colorado
What Crystal Left Behind — Crystal, Colorado. A weathered timber building still standing in the ghost town of Crystal, Colorado, boxed in on all sides by…
What Crystal Left Behind
Crystal, Colorado
The House That Watched It All Arrive — Denver, Colorado. Downtown Denver glowing behind one of the old brick survivors on the west side, holiday lights…
The House That Watched It All Arrive
Denver, Colorado
The Building in Full Dress — Denver, Colorado. The Denver City and County Building in full holiday dress, every column lit in red, blue, and gold with the…
The Building in Full Dress
Denver, Colorado
Down the Stanley Staircase — Estes Park, Colorado. Looking straight down the grand staircase at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, the whole spiral…
Down the Stanley Staircase
Estes Park, Colorado
The Stanley, Wall to Wall — Estes Park, Colorado. The Stanley Hotel lobby stretched corner to corner, gilt-framed portraits watching over the staircase and…
The Stanley, Wall to Wall
Estes Park, Colorado
Up Toward the Landing — Estes Park, Colorado. Looking up the Stanley Hotel staircase toward the arched window and chandelier, red carpet climbing into warm…
Up Toward the Landing
Estes Park, Colorado
The Holiday Train — Georgetown, Colorado. The Georgetown Loop Railroad in its holiday lights, gold lettering glowing and the windows full of passengers on a…
The Holiday Train
Georgetown, Colorado
Mining Towns Know How to Decorate — Idaho Springs, Colorado. An old mine portal in Idaho Springs, Colorado wearing its full holiday best, ore cart loaded…
Mining Towns Know How to Decorate
Idaho Springs, Colorado
The Tower and the Front Range — Lakeside, Colorado. The Lakeside Amusement Park tower pulled in tight against the purple haze of the Front Range at sunset,…
The Tower and the Front Range
Lakeside, Colorado
The Boston Mine in Twilight — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The old Boston Mine cabins sitting quiet under the Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado,…
The Boston Mine in Twilight
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
The Window the Miners Used — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado framed by a cabin window that lost its glass more…
The Window the Miners Used
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
They Built for Keeps — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A hand-hewn log cabin with a sagging roof still shrugging off the drifts at eleven thousand feet in…
They Built for Keeps
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Taking Another Winter on the Chin — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Boston Mine cabins taking another winter on the chin at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado, with…
Taking Another Winter on the Chin
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Best Picture Frame in Summit County — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. Hand-hewn logs framing the snowy basin the miners came to Mayflower Gulch for in the first…
Best Picture Frame in Summit County
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Mayflower Does Not Ease You In — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The sky over the Tenmile cirque going full crimson before the sun ever showed itself at…
Mayflower Does Not Ease You In
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
December at the Boston Mine — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A lit Christmas tree standing beside the old Boston Mine cabin under a clean night sky at Mayflower…
December at the Boston Mine
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
Still Doing Its Job — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The same window the Mayflower Gulch miners looked through every morning, still framing the same…
Still Doing Its Job
Mayflower Gulch, Colorado
The Best Office in Colorado — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old stone fire lookout perched on a jumble of summit rock with the sky burning behind it…
The Best Office in Colorado
Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado
The Lookout Holds Its Post — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old fire lookout holding its post on a Colorado summit while the sky burns crimson and…
The Lookout Holds Its Post
Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado
A Fitting Spot for It — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. An old fire lookout keeping its silhouette while the sky does its best impression of a wildfire,…
A Fitting Spot for It
Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado
Purple Hour on the Summit — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. Purple hour on a Colorado summit with the fire lookout holding the high ground and the whole…
Purple Hour on the Summit
Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado
Pink to Violet in Minutes — Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado. The Mestaa'Ehehe Mountain fire lookout under a sky that ran pink to violet in the space of a…
Pink to Violet in Minutes
Mestaa'ehehe Mountain, Colorado
Retired Below the Sneffels Range — Mount Sneffels Overlook, Ridgway, Colorado. An old rusted truck cab sinking into tall green grass near the Mount Sneffels…
Retired Below the Sneffels Range
Mount Sneffels Overlook, Ridgway, Colorado
Built From the Rock It Stands On — South Valley Park, Jefferson County. An old stone homestead keeping company with the red rocks it was quarried from at…
Built From the Rock It Stands On
South Valley Park, Jefferson County
Lakeside Across the Ice — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The Lakeside Amusement Park tower and the old Cyclone glowing gold across a half-frozen Berkeley Lake in…
Lakeside Across the Ice
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Ice and Amusement — Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The Lakeside tower catching the last purple light over a frozen Berkeley Lake in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, with a…
Ice and Amusement
Wheat Ridge, Colorado