MacGregor Ranch | Estes Park, CO 970-586-3749 | visit our website MacGregor Ranch is the last remaining working cattle ranch in Estes Park and one of the few sites operating as both a working ranch and youth education center in northern Colorado. It is unique in that its historic collection and structures are original to the 1873 homestead family, and its collection is completely intact. MacGregor Ranch offers a window into the past for its visitors. Take a step back in time as you come in the front gate. Percheron draft horses and ranch hands work the hay meadow. The main ranch house, now the museum, is warm and inviting - welcoming children's groups and summer visitors. The Black Angus cattle and horses grazing the meadow remind you of simpler times.

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.

The Kauffman House | Grand Lake, CO 970-627-9644 | visit our website Located on the north shore of scenic Grand Lake, the historic Kauffman House offers a glimpse into an era when tourism was just beginning to take hold as a major industry in Colorado.  The two-story log structure was built in 1892 as a hotel and residence for the Kauffman family, who operated the hotel until 1946.  Purchased by the Grand Lake Area Historical Society in 1973, the Kauffman House has been carefully restored to allow visitors to learn more about the days when accommodations for travelers were simple and rustic.  The Kauffman House is located just a block off the main commercial street in the historic center of Grand Lake, where visitors will find several other examples of early, Rustic-style architecture.

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.