Cripple Creek District Museum - www.cripplecreekmuseum.com
5th & Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, CO 80813 (719) 689-9540
Located at the head of Bennett Avenue, the Cripple Creek District Museum complex contains five historic buildings with mining memorabilia, maps, paintings, glass and china, children's items, furnishings, an assay office, a photograph gallery, Indian artifacts, mineral displays and excellent examples of how people lived over a century ago.
Admission:
$8 Adult $6 Military
12 & Under Free with purchase of Adult or Military Admission
Cripple Creek Heritage Center - VisitCrippleCreek.com
9283 Hwy 67, Cripple Creek, CO 80813 (719) 689-3315
11,600-square-foot visitors center is designed in a style reminiscent of the town’s heyday; however, the technology is all 21st century. State-of-the-art doesn’t begin to describe what awaits you in the area’s newest Pikes Peak travel center: multiple hands-on exhibits combine interactive technology with tactile, audio and video techniques, for an opportunity to fully immerse yourself in the glory days of the World’s Greatest Gold Camp. Other exhibits showcase the area’s geology, flora and fauna and regional recreation opportunities.
Cripple Creek Fire Station # 3 - VisitCrippleCreek.com
147 E Bennett Ave, Cripple Creek, CO 80813 (719) 689-0240
The Cripple Creek Fire Department Station # 3 was completed in 1900 to provide protection from a recurrence of the city’s two catastrophic fires in 1896, which burned 47 acres of the city and destroyed more than 400 buildings. The museum is operated by the City of Cripple Creek to commemorate the service of our brave firefighters throughout the years. It houses numerous displays and photographs of the unique fire fighting history of Cripple Creek.
The museum will be open on weekends starting Memorial Day weekend and continuing through Labor Day weekend.
Lowell Thomas Museum www.victormuseum.com
298 Victor Ave., Victor, CO 80860 (719) 689-5509
The Victor Lowell Thomas Museum is an original 1899 building that houses two floors of artifacts, books, exhibits and photographs depicting the life in Victor from its beginnings to the heyday of gold mining. Outside during the sunny summer, you can pan for real gold and gems. The panning trough is open daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day, weather allowing. You can also step into the modern-day era of mining. Take a tour of the real, working gold mine located here in Victor's back yard.
Gift shop offers books, historic maps and postcards, real stone and Victorian jewelry, old-time games and puzzles, gold ore and rocks and minerals.
Admission:
$7 Adult $6 Seniors
12 & Under $5 - includes gold panning - weather permitting
Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum - VisitCrippleCreek.com
136 W. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek CO 80813 (719) 689-6556
Housed in a red-brick building that served as the Teller County Jail for nearly 90 years, this historic Cripple Creek museum gives visitors a taste of the shadier side of life in the World’s Greatest Gold Camp, along with a glimpse into the lives of the lawmen charged with keeping the peace. The curators of our Cripple Creek Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum have kept the original cells intact, so visitors can experience for themselves what life was like for those on the wrong side of the law. There are also displays highlighting the laws and the lawless, with samples of police logs from the 1890s, copies of early city ordinances and newspaper accounts of crimes both big and small.
The Old Homestead Museum - OldHomesteadHouse.com
353 Myers Ave., Cripple Creek, CO 80813 (719) 689-9090
The Old Homestead was built in 1896 and was the most elegant brothel in Colorado's Cripple Creek District during its heyday. The house opened in 1958 as a museum and has been a favorite ever since with thousands of visitors from around the world every year. Built by the famous madam, Pearl DeVere, to service the desires of the rich and powerful men of the Cripple Creek mining district during Colorado’s Gold Rush, the Old Homestead offered the most beautiful women in the luxurious parlour house. Pearl built the house after the town was leveled by two fires, modeling it after the elite brothels of Paris and building it of brick so it could withstand another fire.
Admission:
$7 Adult $3 Children
Ute Pass Historical Society - www.utepasshistoricalsociety.org
231 E. Henrietta Ave, Woodland Park, CO 80866 (719) 686-7512
Ute Pass Historical Society invite you to come and see our historic buildings, exhibits, and photographs. Our staff and volunteers take great pride and pleasure in showing visitors the wealth of artifacts, documents, and artwork housed in the Pikes Peak Museum, a group of five historic buildings at Ute Pass History Park in Woodland Park, Colorado. What’s more, our Gift Shop offers books and other items that reflect the rich history of the Ute Pass area.
Victor's Gold Camp Ag & Mining Museum - victorsagminemuseum.com
103 S. 2nd St, Victor, CO 80860 (719) 689-3461
This rugged three-story museum does more than showcase tractors, vehicles and old pulleys and equipment–this museum is also a working garage. Visitors can watch a complex systems of pulleys and belts that power extremely large machines and equipment that would have been found in a large garage like this. An old blacksmith forge is complete with a hammer and anvil and still used at this garage today. Some of the vehicles on display are on loan to the museum; however, the large collection of tractors and equipment belongs to the curator of the museum–be sure to catch some of the great history and stories behind the impressive pieces on display!
Admission to this museum is free, and donations are welcomed. The museum is open Memorial Day thru Labor Day, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Wednesday – Sunday.
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