Four Mile Historic Park | Denver, CO 720-865-0800 | visit our website Four Mile Historic Park is a 12-acre park, home to the Denver area's oldest standing structure, Four Mile House.  It was built in 1859 to serve as a stage stop, wayside inn, and tavern for travelers on the Cherokee Trail headed to newly founded Denver City.  Levi and Millie Booth, owners from 1864 until the 1940s, grew the small wayside inn to a 600-acre working ranch/farm.

Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture | Pueblo, CO 719-564-9086 | visit our website Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) played a major part in the industrialization of the West. It was the first integrated steel mill west of the Mississippi, controlling all of the natural resources necessary to produce steel: coal, iron ore, limestone and water.  Begun in 1872 by General William Palmer to provide steel rails for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, CF&I was later controlled by John Osgood of Redstone, Colorado and John D. Rockefeller.   The company produced necessities for the West, including iron rails, fencing, nails, and steel pipes.  The reach of CF&I was broad; the company owned and operated 62 mines and quarries and numerous sales offices and subsidiaries across the country.

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art | Denver, CO 303-832-8576 | visit our website The Kirkland Museum has a nationally important collection of 20th century decorative arts with more than 3,300 displayed works of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Glasgow, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Modern and Pop Art Styles.  The Museum was built as an art school in 1911 and contains the historic studio of Colorado modernist painter Vance Kirkland.Vance Kirkland's paintings are hung throughout the building.

Museum of Northwest Colorado | Craig, CO 970-824-6360 | visit our website The Museum of Northwest Colorado is housed in the former National Guard Armory in downtown Craig, Colorado. The building was built in 1921 and was used as an Armory until the 1970s when it became a community center. It was renovated in 1991 and became the local history museum.

Pueblo Zoo Islands of Life | Pueblo, CO 719-561-1452 | visit our website Built in the 1930s, the five historic structures in the Pueblo Zoo Historic District were a product of the New Deal- a federal and local employment program developed during the Great Depression to put Americans back to work. Hand-crafted stonework on the structures is an expression of the American Rustic movement first developed in 1916.   Because of its quality, craftsmanship and uniqueness, the Pueblo Zoo Historic District is an architectural treasure worthy of national attention.

Hinsdale County Courthouse | Lake City, CO 970-944-2515 | visit our website The Hinsdale County Courthouse is important for its association with the settlement and development of Lake City during the late 1800s mining era. Constructed in 1877, the building is significant as the state's oldest courthouse still in use for its original purpose. The first year of its operation as a courthouse was marked by the appearance of suffragette Susan B. Anthony.

Chimney Rock Archaeological Site | Pagosa Springs, CO 970-264-2287 call 970-883-5359  between May 15th and Septmeber 30th  visit our website In the shadow of the awe-inspiring twin pinnacles, experience a unique part of America's heritage at one of the most unusual and intriguing archaeological sites of the Ancestral Puebloan people in the Four Corners area of SW Colorado. Located between Durango and Pagosa Springs, Chimney Rock is a 4,100 acre site within the San Juan National Forest and is surrounded by the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. It was designated an Archaeological Area and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Paint Mines Interpretive Park | Calhan, CO 719-520-6375 | visit our website Relentless prairie winds, sandstone-capped spires and hoodoos, colorful hues of clay, and distant coyote calls beckon visitors to this quiet landscape. As hikers venture from the trailhead into the distant reaches, the Paint Mines offers a journey through time, past fascinating geological formations and remnants of human history, in a unique ecological setting within the rolling plains of eastern El Paso County.

The Colorado Chautauqua | Boulder, CO 303-449-0790 | visit our website Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauquas "the most American thing in America."  One of the best examples of a Chautauqua camp can found at the base of the Flatirons on the west edge of Boulder.  The idea for these camps originated at Lake Chautauqua, New York in 1876 and quickly caught on around the country.  Before radio and television, the Chautauqua Movement united millions in common cultural and educational experiences. Orators, performers, and educators traveled a national Chautauqua circuit of more than 12,000 sites, bringing lectures, performances, concerts, classes, and exhibitions to thousands of people in small towns and cities.

Kit Carson County Carousel | Burlington, CO 719-348-5562 | visit our website Of the nearly 4,000 wooden carousels carved in America between 1885 and the 1930s, fewer than 150 are still in existence. One of the finest of these survivors can be found on the county fairgrounds in Burlington, Colorado.

The Hewes-Kirkwood Inn/Rocky Ridge Music Center | Estes Park, CO 970-586-4031 | visit our website Tucked into a forested hillside on the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, the Hewes-Kirkwood Inn is a historic Rustic-style resort that has been converted to a highly regarded music center.  In 1907, novelist and poet Charles Edwin Hewes homesteaded a wooded 960-acre parcel in the shadow of Longs Peak with his brother and mother.  The family opened the Hewes-Kirkwood Inn for guests in 1914, many of whom came to prepare for (and recover from) the grueling hike up nearby Longs Peak.

This project is paid for in part by a State Historical Fund grant
from the Colorado Historical Society.